Profit hides in averages. We make it visible.
We build time-driven costing models that show where money is really made and lost, customer by customer. Then we teach your team the method, and publish everything we learn, in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
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When the average stops being enough, bring in the capability.
Two front doors into the work, plus a way in by role. Both start from the data you already export.
Don’t hire a controller. Subscribe to the capability.
A senior profitability controller, CostCtrl and AI, embedded for a set period then handed to your team. Predictable monthly cost, no hiring risk, productive from week one.
Explore the controllerSee where your margin really sits.
ProfitAudit 360 maps profit by customer, product and channel from data you already export, in 3-5 weeks. A clear picture before you commit to anything ongoing.
Explore ProfitAudit 360From diagnostic to embedded model in four stages.
A structured diagnostic that scores your organisation across seven profit dimensions. No data upload. You receive a personalised report with the areas of highest latent margin.
We take your general ledger and transactional data and build a full TDABC model. You get a whale curve, customer-level P&L, and a clear map of where margin leaks.
We deploy CostCtrl with your data, train your team, and embed the model into your monthly management cycle. You own the model. We transfer the knowledge.
Quarterly reviews, model updates, pricing strategy support, and scenario analysis. We stay as long as you need a sparring partner for profitability decisions.
Methodology is the brain. CostCtrl is the machine.
CostCtrl is the SaaS platform purpose-built for TDABC profitability modelling. It ingests your ERP data, runs time equations, and outputs customer-level and product-level P&Ls in minutes, not months. AI accelerates the model build and the reading of results, while every number stays traceable to its source, so the output is fast and still defensible in front of a board.
- Upload financial and operational data or CSV, model runs in minutes
- Whale curve, treemap, heatmap dashboards
- AI-assisted model build with every number traceable to source
AI builds cost models fast. Proving they are right is the hard part.
An AI cost model can be ready in hours instead of weeks. It can also assign costs to the wrong place, and a wrong allocation tells you to grow the customer that is losing you money. We use 25 years of TDABC experience to build these models with AI and, just as important, to check that the result holds up.
A €1.335M cost-to-serve problem, made visible, then halved.
A New Zealand industrial distributor with 1,951 customers found that 830 of them were contributing negatively once true cost-to-serve was attributed: a combined €1.335M. With the model in hand, the team re-priced loss-making combinations and reset service terms. The negative cohort has roughly halved, to around €665K, with loss-making customers down from 830 to 295.
Read the full case study →Four kinds of leader call us. All are done guessing.
For Private Equity
You acquired a platform company. The management pack says 14% EBITDA. But which portfolio companies, which BUs, which customers are actually creating that margin? We show you, in weeks.
- Portfolio-wide profitability benchmarking
- Due-diligence cost model for add-ons
- Post-acquisition margin improvement roadmap
For SMEs
You have 500+ SKUs, dozens of customers, and a gut feeling that some orders lose money. Your ERP gives you revenue per customer, but not cost-to-serve. We close that gap.
- Customer and product-level P&L
- Pricing strategy grounded in real cost data
- A model your finance team can update monthly
For CFOs
The month-end close is on time, and still nobody can say which customers and products make money. We turn your existing data into a board-ready profit map, defensible to the last figure.
- Profit by customer, product and channel
- A number your board and auditor can defend
- Owned by your team, in weeks
For Controllers
You can run the model. You just need the method and a working cost model wired to your data. We transfer TDABC and a maintainable cost-to-serve model your team owns, with no system change.
- TDABC method, transferred to your team
- A cost-to-serve model wired to your data
- Maintainable in-house, no system change
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Short, useful notes on cost-to-serve, pricing and profitability, for people who own the number. No fluff, no selling.
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Founded by practitioners, not theorists.
Cost & Profitability Consulting was founded in 2010 with one mission: bring world-class cost management to companies that need it most. 25+ years of TDABC implementations, 150+ client engagements, and a profitability platform built because nothing on the market worked the way it should.
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Workshops & training · the fastest path
Bring the method into the room. Or onto the call.
A focused workshop is the quickest way to turn cost & profitability into decisions your team will act on, and historically our fastest route from first contact to a real project. Public or in-company, in person or online, on the topic you choose.
- Public or in-company
- In person or online
- Small groups
- Any cost & profitability topic
No open date in your region? The call is where we design one, public or just for your team.
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Cost, Profitability & Artificial Intelligence
Four stages in one day: the TDABC method, hands-on cases, the model built in software, and the results read with AI.
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Your Profit Check takes five minutes. The insight lasts a career.
No data upload. No sales call. Just 14 questions across seven dimensions and a personalised profitability report.