FRACTIONAL CFO FOR GRADING CONTRACTORS.
We run the finance function for grading 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.
Grading runs two production economies out of one bid book, so the first job is splitting them. Mass grading sells cubic yards moved and fine grading sells tolerance held, with different machines, different operators, and different production math, and a blended cost history prices mass too high and fine too low so the company loses both kinds of bids for opposite reasons. We decide where GPS machine control lives, in overhead or in the machine rate, because the base station, receivers, and model prep labor are real cost most graders never assign anywhere. Then we build a winter reserve against a 16 percent overhead rate that runs twelve months while production runs nine.
THE THREE THINGS THAT DRAIN THE CASH.
The Two Economies
Mass grading sells yards; fine grading sells tolerance. One blended cost history misprices both, and the trade's 18 percent gross margin has no room for systematically wrong bids in either direction.
The Acceptance Gate
Density tests and subgrade acceptance are payment gates: a failed proctor is unpaid production plus retest fees plus schedule burn. Moisture and soils documentation is what separates a claim from a donation.
The Idle Spread
Sixteen percent overhead at the small end, heaviest in the dirt family, running twelve months against seasonal production. Winter reserves and utilization tracking are the difference between a spring restart and a spring refinance. (cfos-working-capital-system) ---
WHAT WE CHANGE.
FLAT MONTHLY FEE. NO SURPRISES.
Priced by trailing 12 month revenue. No hourly billing. No payroll. No add-ons.
| Last 12 months revenue | Monthly 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.
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.
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.
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.
Prevailing wage note: Grading work often runs on public bids, which means certified payroll and wage classifications have to line up with the job cost record. ControlQore holds the classification against the cost code, so the certified report and the job cost report come from the same data instead of somebody keying the same numbers twice every week.
FREQUENTLY ASKED.
