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.
How does Cost & Profitability Consulting deliver a profitability model?
We deliver it in four steps: a free five minute Profit Check, a fixed scope ProfitAudit 360 that builds a full TDABC model in about three weeks, a Build and Embed phase that deploys CostCtrl and certifies your team, then ongoing Advisory. The result is a living model your team owns and can run without us.
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.
The seven profit dimensions we assess
Each dimension is scored 0-100, giving you a clear map of where to focus first.
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.
See full ProfitAudit 360 detailsWhat the audit covers
Choose your scope
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.
See the Build & Embed phaseWe stay as your sparring partner. Quarterly reviews, model updates, pricing strategy support, and scenario analysis. You decide when to stop. Most clients never do.
See the Advisory phaseThe four steps are the spine. Around them sits a portfolio so you can enter at the depth you need: a free diagnostic, a one off audit, an embedded controller, or a platform your team runs. Every one runs on TDABC and on the data you already export.
Cost truth is not only for companies chasing margin. Mission driven organisations face the same question, sharper: which programmes and services are sustainable, and which quietly drain the funding that keeps the doors open. The same TDABC method gives a non profit a defensible cost to serve, a sustainable model, and programme decisions grounded in real cost.
Explore Profit for Good →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.
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.
Drag the price, mix and freight levers on a working whale curve. It is the same engine we build for clients, running live on an example dataset. No sign-up, no data, about a minute.
Most consultants make themselves necessary. We do the opposite. Across the engagement our presence falls and your team's rises, until the model runs on your data, in your hands, without us in the loop.
If you want to check our working before you ever talk to us, you can. The definitions, the build steps, the variants used around the world, and how it lands in your sector are all public.
Every term we use, defined plainly: from cost-to-serve to time equations.
Open → GuideThe build, step by step: cost pools, time equations, allocation chain.
Read the guide → FrameworksHow TDABC sits next to ABC, GPK, RCA and the other costing schools.
Compare → AppliedWhat cost truth looks like in your sector, across 16 industries.
Find yours →For a distribution group we built the TDABC model on the data they already held. It ranked 1,951 customers, found 830 destroying value, and made €1.3M of hidden cost-to-serve visible. 535 of those accounts were turned profitable, a model the team could defend in front of operations, sales and an auditor.
Read the case study →The first model is built in weeks, not quarters. A fixed-scope ProfitAudit 360 typically runs 2 to 6 weeks depending on tier, because the method runs on data you already hold and AI accelerates the heavy lifting.
No. The method is built to run on the exports you already have from your ERP and accounting system. Data gaps are mapped as part of the build rather than fixed before we start, so the project does not stall on data collection.
Start with the free Profit Check, a five-minute diagnostic, then a short scoping call. Most engagements then begin with a fixed-price ProfitAudit 360 that produces the first model and a clear action roadmap.
Yes. The output is an auditable model you can defend in front of operations, sales and an auditor, because every cost is traced to the activity and the minutes that consumed it, not spread by an average rate.
You keep a living model on your own data, in CostCtrl, and we stay available for reviews and deeper analysis. The first engagement proves the value and shows exactly where the next gains sit.
Both, and you choose the depth. The same method runs from a free Profit Check, to a fixed scope ProfitAudit 360, to Build and Embed, to ongoing Advisory or a Fractional Controller. You can stop after the first model, or keep us as a sparring partner. Nothing locks you in.
Yes. Cost truth is not only for companies chasing margin. The same TDABC method gives a non profit a defensible cost to serve and programme level decisions grounded in real cost, so the funding goes where it sustains the mission. See Profit for Good.
It can be either. ProfitAudit 360 is the fixed scope diagnostic that builds and proves the first model. The Fractional Profitability Controller is the ongoing role: a senior controller, plus CostCtrl and AI, embedded then handed to your team. You get controller level rigour without a permanent hire.
No. CostCtrl runs alongside your systems, on the exports you already produce. Nothing changes inside your ERP, and the model reconciles back to your general ledger so the numbers stay defensible.
We leave you the model, not a slide deck. The engagement is fixed scope, runs on data you already hold, and ends with your team owning an auditable model they can defend in front of operations, sales and an auditor. We design ourselves out of the room, on purpose.
No data upload. No sales call. Just 14 questions across seven dimensions and a personalised profitability report.