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FRACTIONAL CFO FOR CONCRETE PUMPING CONTRACTORS.

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We run the finance function for concrete pumping subcontractors doing $1M to $12M: job costing aligned to the way you estimate, a 13 week cash flow forecast, monthly WIP, and a CFO in the room every month. Pricing starts at $1,900 per month.

Pumping sells truck-days, so that's the statement we build first. The dispatchable unit is one certified operator on one machine, and the P&L is how many 3-to-4-hour minimums that unit stacks in a day against drive time between them. We rebuild the rate sheet so every recoverable cost has a line: standby at $125 to $200 an hour with a cause code on the ticket, fuel surcharge, hose beyond included footage, washout, and weekend premium. Then we run utilization per unit against ownership carry, because a boom is a six-figure asset with insurance at $5,000 to $15,000 a year that costs the same whether it pumps or parks.

BY JOSH LUEBKERPublished 2026-08-06Updated 2026-08-06
WHERE CONCRETE PUMPING LOSES MONEY

THE THREE THINGS THAT DRAIN THE CASH.

LEAK 01

The Minimum Sold Twice

The 3-to-4-hour minimum is the unit of capacity, and dispatch density (how many minimums a truck stacks in a day against drive time) is the P&L. A truck-day report by dispatch is the trade's core statement.

LEAK 02

The Clock That Waits

Late ready-mix, slow finishers, and missed staging windows run the pump's meter only if the rate sheet names standby and the ticket logs the cause. Waiting is the best-margin hour or the purest donation; the paper decides.

LEAK 03

The Parked Boom

The capacity unit is a certified operator on a six-figure machine carrying insurance and maintenance whether it pumps or not. Per-truck utilization against ownership carry is the fleet decision that precedes every quote. (cfos-working-capital-system) ---

HOW SPM FIXES IT

WHAT WE CHANGE.

The minimum block is the business model
The standby clock (paid to wait, if the paper says so)
Boom vs line (two machines, two economies)
The adder sheet (where the margin hides)
One operator, one truck, one certification (the capacity unit)
PRICING

FLAT MONTHLY FEE. NO SURPRISES.

Priced by trailing 12 month revenue. No hourly billing. No payroll. No add-ons.

Last 12 months revenueMonthly fee
Up to $1M$1,900 to $2,900
$1M to $3.5M$2,600 to $3,900
$3.5M to $6.5M$3,800 to $5,700
$6.5M to $9.5M$5,100 to $7,100
$9.5M to $12.5M$6,100 to $8,500
$12.5M to $15.5M$7,400 to $11,000
$15.5M to $18.5M$9,400 to $13,500
$18.5M+Quoted individually

Range reflects the three tiers below. Which one you're in depends on how much of the work you want off your desk. No payroll. No hidden line items.

Core

You stop guessing.

You get the CFO work. Job costing built against the way you estimate, a 13 week cash forecast, monthly WIP, and a meeting every month that ends in decisions rather than a report.

Your bookkeeper keeps doing the books.

Executive

You stop touching the books.

Everything in Core, and we run the bookkeeping and the controllership as well. Nobody in your office is answering coding questions or chasing a reconciliation at month end.

We do the books. No payroll.

Strategic

Every job shows its margin while it's still running.

Everything in Executive, plus the job costing and WIP platform set up, loaded with your cost codes, and managed for you every month. You never have to learn it.

We do the job costing.

COMMON QUESTIONS

FREQUENTLY ASKED.

Concrete pumping contractors at $1M to $5M net about 6.5 percent on the SPM 48-trade benchmark dataset, rising to 9 percent by $25M to $50M; the CFOS target at $1M to $5M is 10 percent. The leaks are unlogged standby, missing adders, and parked iron; the levers are dispatch density and rate-sheet completeness. Every net profit figure here is stated before taxes, the same basis CFMA reports on, so the two are directly comparable.
Three tiers, and which one you are in depends on how much of the work you want off your desk. Core is where you stop guessing: job costing built against the way you estimate, a 13 week cash forecast, monthly WIP, and a monthly meeting that ends in decisions, while your bookkeeper keeps doing the books. Executive is where you stop touching the books, because we run the bookkeeping and the controllership as well. Strategic is where every job shows its margin while it is still running, because the job costing and WIP platform is set up and managed for you. No payroll. No scope gaps.
Sixty days. We migrate your books back to the start of your last taxable year, set up ControlQore, and build your job costing structure from scratch. Fully operational in two months.
ControlQore is the job costing and WIP platform we use for all clients. Purpose-built for contractors, more affordable than legacy tools, and AI-infused. We set it up and manage it, so you do not have to learn it.
A bookkeeper records what happened. We tell you what it means and what to do about it. We align job costing to your estimates, track WIP monthly, and hold strategic accountability meetings so problems get fixed and not merely documented.
$10.7M+
Client AR Recovered Since 2023
48
Active Trade Specializations
60 DAYS
Average Onboarding Time
WHAT THIS TIES INTO
Josh Luebker, The Construction CFO
Josh Luebker
FRACTIONAL CFO · THE CONSTRUCTION CFO

Former commercial construction project manager and master electrician. Managed 150+ projects worth more than $2.1B combined, with individual jobs from $50,000 to $300M, including data centers, military bases, hospitals, and high-rises. Now fractional CFO for commercial subcontractors doing $1M to $12M through Sulphur Prairie Management.About Josh  | LinkedIn

DO YOU KNOW YOUR TRUE MARGIN ON CONCRETE PUMPING WORK?

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20 minutes. No sales pressure. We will tell you exactly what's broken before we talk about anything else.

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