A focused, fixed-fee audit of where the money is leaking in your construction business — pricing, labour burden, overhead, and job costing.
A contractor profit diagnostic is a focused, fixed-fee analytical engagement that audits the four levers driving net profit in a construction business: pricing and markup, fully-burdened labour cost, overhead structure, and job-level cost capture. The deliverable is a written 8–12 page report with prioritized 90-day actions, plus two reusable calculators populated with your numbers (the labour burden calculator and the markup/breakeven calculator).
Industry context: the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) reports that 81% of contractors do not know their true labour burden, and only 19% set monthly overhead, profit, and sales targets. The diagnostic exists to close that gap with your own numbers — not a benchmark.
This engagement is not bookkeeping clean-up, tax preparation, QuickBooks setup, or business valuation. Those stay with your accountant. This is profit-and-pricing diagnostics, delivered by someone who has actually run construction businesses for 35+ years.
The profit diagnostic is built for:
This is the right starting engagement if you're saying any of these out loud:
If those aren't your questions, see the Systems Diagnostic or the Sales Pipeline Diagnostic instead.
The deliverable is concrete. By the end of the engagement you will have:
The report is yours. Whether or not you continue working with Tumbleweed Consulting after the diagnostic, the report and the calculators are your property.
The intake takes most clients about 2 hours over 3–5 days. You upload to a private Google Drive folder we provide.
If your bookkeeping is more than 3 months behind, the engagement pauses and we refer you to a bookkeeper. We do not run analysis on data that isn't workable.
| Step | What happens | Timing |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Free 20-minute fit call to confirm this is the right next step | Day 0 |
| 2 | Master Coaching Services Agreement signed; 50% deposit ($750) paid | Day 0–2 |
| 3 | Google Drive intake folder shared; you upload documents | Days 2–7 |
| 4 | Analysis runs behind the scenes — burden calc, markup audit, 3-job post-mortem, cash flow review | Days 7–14 |
| 5 | 60-minute findings call, recorded, walks you through what was found | Day 14–17 |
| 6 | Written report delivered to your Drive folder; final 50% due on delivery | Within 10 business days of findings call |
| 7 | 30-day free check-in call (optional) | Day 45 |
Total turnaround: 2–3 weeks from receipt of complete intake to written report.
Fee: $1,500 CAD. GST/PST extra where applicable.
Payment: 50% on signing the engagement letter ($750). 50% on delivery of the written report ($750).
Refund policy: Full refund if the intake review reveals the engagement isn't a fit. Once analysis begins, no refunds — but we work in good faith to deliver the report you contracted for.
Credit toward coaching: 50% of the diagnostic fee ($750) is credited toward a 3-month coaching package (Contractor Core or Contractor Fast Track) if you engage Tumbleweed Consulting for coaching within 30 days of receiving your written report.
This engagement is deliberately scoped. It is not:
Tumbleweed Consulting's profit diagnostic is $1,500 CAD, fixed-fee. The fee is paid 50% on signing and 50% on delivery of the written report. Comparable diagnostics from construction-specialist consultants range from $1,500 to $3,500 across North America.
2–3 weeks from receipt of complete intake to written report. The owner's time investment is about 2 hours over 3–5 days for intake, plus the 60-minute findings call.
If your bookkeeping is more than 3 months stale, the engagement pauses. Eddy refers you to a bookkeeper, and the engagement resumes once the books are workable. No analysis is run on unreliable data.
Yes. The entire engagement runs by Zoom and Google Drive. Eddy is based in Langley, BC, but serves contractors across Canada.
The Full Contractor Health Check covers profit, systems, and sales together for $4,000 — saving $500 versus buying the three separately, plus adding a strategic layer (12-month forward model, owner load map, risk register).
Yes. The report is yours. You can share it with your accountant, bookkeeper, business partner, banker, or spouse. Confidentiality binds Eddy; it does not bind you.
At the 30-day check-in call, if continuing into coaching makes sense, you'll talk about it. If it doesn't, you'll talk about that too. Eddy refers clients to other consultants regularly when his engagement isn't the right fit.
Eddy Davis has spent 35+ years in construction, project management, and Indigenous economic development across British Columbia. He is a certified Building Inspector (CBI), a Building Science consultant, and has founded and operated five companies. He served as Director of Public Works and CAO for multiple First Nations bands, and continues to take on contract project management work in Metro Vancouver — meaning every recommendation in this diagnostic is informed by what's actually happening in BC's construction market today.
Read the full story →Tell me what's going on with the numbers. I'll tell you honestly whether the profit diagnostic, a different engagement, or neither is the right next move.
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Tumbleweed Consulting · Eddy Davis · Langley, BC
250-938-7388 · info@tumbleweedconsulting.ca