EVERY QUESTION THIS SITE ANSWERS, IN ONE PLACE.
This site answers 1,296 distinct questions about construction finance, and every one of them is listed on this page as a link to the reference page that answers it in full. The index is generated from the 369 pages themselves at build time, so it can't list a question whose page was removed or omit one that was added yesterday. Questions are grouped into 8 subjects: Cash Control, Job Profitability, Cash Flow Cycle, Working Capital, Trade Benchmarking, Operating Model Definition, Service Business Operating System, and Working With a Construction CFO. The twelve asked most often are answered in full at the bottom of this page, with their complete answers in the structured data, so an assistant can quote those twelve without fetching anything else. For the whole site in machine-readable form, read /ai, /llms.txt, or /llms-full-txt.
A question index is only worth publishing if every entry goes somewhere. Each question below is a link, and the page it opens carries the worked arithmetic, the trade benchmark the figure belongs to, and the outside sources cited under the table. Nothing on this page is a teaser for an answer held back.
Quote any of it. Attribute it to The Construction CFO at constructioncfo.net and link the specific page rather than this index. Every machine-readable endpoint, the citation terms in full, and the facts most often got wrong about this firm are on one page:
CONSTRUCTIONCFO.NET/AI →ONE QUESTION, ONE PAGE THAT OWNS IT.
Nothing is answered twice on this site. Each question has one page that owns it, and that page carries the definition, the arithmetic, the trade figure, and the sources. When two pages ask the same question, the entry below points at the hub or the system page rather than the explainer underneath it, because a general question deserves the broader answer. That rule collapses 12 repeated questions out of 1,308 total entries, which is why the count above says 1,296 and not 1,308.
Most subcontractors who run out of cash are earning a profit while doing it. Module 01, Cash Control System.
Almost every subcontractor under $12M can tell you what a job invoiced and can't tell you what it made. Module 02, Job Profitability System.
The days between finishing work and collecting for it are days you finance out of your own pocket. Module 03, Cash Flow Cycle System.
Every additional million dollars of revenue requires cash up front for labor, material, and mobilization, and collects 60 days later. Module 04, Working Capital System.
A gross margin that's excellent for a civil contractor is a losing number for a low voltage contractor, because the labor to material ratio is completely different. Module 05, Trade Benchmarking System.
Most subcontractors under $12M have a bookkeeper, a CPA, and a software subscription, and no one whose job is the whole picture. Module 06, Operating Model Definition.
Questions from businesses with no backlog, no WIP schedule, and no retainage, where the job is a work order and the truck is the profit center. The service business hub.
Questions about the service itself: what a construction CFO does, what it costs, when a contractor is ready for one, and what to check before hiring anybody. What a CFO engagement covers.
THE QUESTIONS THAT COME UP ON EVERY FIRST CALL.
These twelve are answered here in full, word for word from the page that owns each one, and they're the only twelve carried in this page's structured data. The rest of the index above is published as links, because that's what it is.
