See what small improvements could mean for your bottom line
Model the effect of better pricing, more work through your existing team, tighter direct costs, improved labour efficiency and leaner overheads.
Built for trades and construction
Start with the business you have today
Use annual figures from the same financial period. The model works from your existing cost structure rather than a generic margin assumption.
Step 1 of 3Your current numbers
Current business
Enter your annual numbers
Keep wages separate from cost of sales. This lets the model show the value of putting more work through your existing team.
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Total annual sales before costs.
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Materials, subcontractors, hired plant and other costs that rise with work volume.
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Your existing team wage cost.
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Vehicles, rent, software, admin, insurance and other operating overheads.
Current net profit
$120,000
Current net profit margin
8.0%
Step 2 of 3Build a realistic scenario
Profit levers
What could you improve without rebuilding the business?
The levers are connected. More sales increase cost of sales because you are delivering more work. They do not automatically increase wages or overheads because this scenario assumes spare capacity in your existing team and structure. Price increases raise revenue without increasing work volume.
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Capacity assumption: if the extra work would require additional staff, vehicles, premises or management, reduce the sales increase to a level your existing structure can genuinely absorb.
Step 3 of 3Your opportunity
Scenario result
What could these changes be worth?
This is scenario modelling, not a forecast. It shows how your current numbers respond to the changes you selected.
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The number is only half the story. Your detailed Profit Diagnostic compares the mix of your current costs against the Rise trades and construction reference model, then identifies the one area that deserves the closest look first.
Your diagnostic is ready
See what your numbers are telling you
Enter your details to unlock the full report, including the main cost area we would investigate first and a downloadable PDF copy.
Your report includes: current vs scenario P&L, profit uplift by lever, cost-mix diagnostic, the Rise reference comparison and suggested areas to investigate.
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Your profit potential
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About the Rise reference. The cost-mix diagnostic is designed as a broad reference for New Zealand trades and construction businesses. Rise Advisory has normalised broad industry evidence into a practical three-bucket working model of approximately 70% cost of sales, 18% wages and 12% overheads, measured as a share of total operating costs. The model is informed by Stats NZ Annual Enterprise Survey data, the Stats NZ Business Performance Benchmarker and NZ construction-sector analysis. It is a conversation starter, not a rule that every trade business should have the same structure.
Want to work out what is actually achievable?
A calculator can show the opportunity. The next step is deciding which changes make sense in your business and how to implement them without creating new problems.
