How we work

A method, not a magic trick. Four steps from fog to focus.

Most consultants sell you their presence. We sell you a capability you keep. Here is exactly what happens, in what order, and what you walk away holding.

FIG. · fog to focus · four steps one year · one living model
01 Profit Check 5 MIN · FREE maturity score blind-spots 02 ProfitAudit 360 3 WEEKS · FIXED FEE TDABC model whale curve + roadmap 03 Build & Embed 4–8 WEEKS live CostCtrl model team certified 04 Advisory ONGOING scenario reviews AI commentary fog focus
01
5 minutes · Free · No data

Profit Check

A 14-question diagnostic that scores your organisation across seven profit dimensions. No spreadsheets. No data upload. In five minutes you get a personalised report that shows exactly where you are strong and where margin is silently leaking.

You walk away with
Maturity score out of 100
Priority blind-spots identified
Benchmark vs. your sector

The seven profit dimensions we assess:

1. Cost Visibility
2. Client Profitability
3. Pricing Power
4. Process Design
5. Data Maturity
6. Team Capability
7. Strategic Alignment

Each dimension is scored 0–100, giving you a clear map of where to focus first.

Cost Visibility Client Profitability Pricing Power Process Design Data Maturity Team Capability Strategic Alignment
02
3 weeks · Fixed fee

ProfitAudit 360

We take your financial and operational data, build a full TDABC cost model, and produce a granular profitability map. You see which customers, products and channels create value and which quietly destroy it. No ambiguity. No averages.

You walk away with
Full TDABC cost model
Whale curve + treemap dashboards
Margin-leak roadmap

What the audit covers:

1. Cost pool mapping
2. TDABC time equations
3. Customer profitability
4. Product/service margins
5. Channel cost-to-serve
6. Capacity utilisation
7. Whale curve analysis
8. Process cost benchmarks
9. Overhead allocation
10. Pricing vs. cost gaps
11. Action roadmap

Choose your scope:

Focus
<50 employees
Single BU
2–3 weeks
5 consulting days
360
50–250 employees
Multiple cost centres
3–5 weeks
11 consulting days
Enterprise
250+ employees
Multi-entity
Scoped per mandate
18+ consulting days
See full ProfitAudit 360 details
03
4–8 weeks

Build & Embed

We deploy CostCtrl with your data, train your finance team, and connect the model to your data pipeline. By the end of this phase, you own the model and your team can update it monthly without us.

You walk away with
Live CostCtrl model
Team certification
Data pipeline setup
04
Ongoing · Retainer

Advisory

We stay as your sparring partner. Quarterly reviews, model updates, pricing strategy support, and scenario analysis. You decide when to stop. Most clients never do.

You walk away with
Quarterly scenario reviews
Pricing & mix strategy
Board-ready narratives
05 The engine room

Two numbers per process. That’s the whole trick.

Old-school Activity-Based Costing asked employees to estimate how they split their time across dozens of activities. It was expensive, slow, and people hated filling in the surveys.

TDABC flips the model. For each process, you need only two numbers: the cost per minute of capacity, and a time equation that estimates how long each transaction takes. Multiply, and you have the true cost.

The time equation
Cost = €/min × t0 + t1·x1 + t2·x2

Where t0 is base time, and each tn×xn adds the cost of a complication: a manual check, a special packaging step, a rush delivery.

Start with the truth

Ready to see where margin hides? Start with a five-minute Profit Check.

No data upload. No sales call. Just 14 questions across seven dimensions and a personalised profitability report.