The Bench · the working layer

Not the premium newsletter. Your business, on the workbench.

The reading tells you how a business works. The Bench tells you how yours is doing: every issue's tools set to your own numbers, your shop measured against your trade, and a running read on where the money leaks and what to do this quarter.

Your shopHVAC · 11 trucks · Connecticut
Return-visit cost, unpriced
$81,700 / yr
Worth a month
Return rate vs your trade
1 in 8 · med. 1 in 12
Top third, high
Route override tax
$12,400 / yr
Normal
Referral discount leakage
$31,000 / yr
Take a look

Illustrative dashboard. Every figure is one you set from your own records; the benchmarks fill in as more shops like yours join.

Twelve tools saved, and one more every issue

You keep every tool, and each issue adds one more.

Pricing

  • Return-cost calculator
  • Price waterfall
  • Discount leakage
  • Minimum-margin · soon

Operations

  • Override-cost calculator
  • Route-density diagnostic
  • Rework analyzer
  • Utilization · soon

Revenue

  • Referral-friction audit
  • Channel economics
  • Concentration · soon

Membership

  • Inactive-member economics
  • Churn sensitivity
  • Capacity · soon
Where you sit, against shops like yours

The answer to "is my business any good?"

Gross margin
Normal
Return rate
High · top third
Tech utilization
Top quartile
Average ticket
17% below peers
Referral concentration
Watch it

Illustrative until enough shops like yours have joined to make it real. We label what is measured and what is modeled, here as everywhere.

How it works

Set it once. It gets more valuable every month.

01

Set your numbers

Enter your real figures once. Every calculator in the library runs on them from then on, saved to your shop.

02

Every issue adds a tool

Each issue's calculator and benchmark get saved to your Bench, so the set you own keeps getting bigger.

03

Track the money over time

Re-run it any quarter, watch the leaks close, and see how you stack up against shops like yours as more of them join.

Membership · pricing

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The answer, the model needed to judge it, and the instructions to run it are never behind the wall. The membership is the tools for the people running the play, not a gate on the point.

A look at the working layer

You have read the case. Here is what you run.

Your saved calculatorHVAC · your shop
$81,700/yr, unpriced
Completed jobs1,900
Loaded rate$143/hr
Return rate1 in 8
Set to your numbers · re-run any quarter
Your trade benchmarkResidential HVAC
you, 1 in 8median 1 in 12
Shops like yours1 in 12
Where you sitTop third for returns
The readHigh. Worth a month.
How your number lands against your trade

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