What it looks like when the leaks close.
We can't publish another director's numbers without their permission. Where we have it, we show the work in full — the before is the client's own submitted data, the after is the modelled end state of the restructure.
Landmarked Developments
A proven builder — 16 dwellings, eight developments, two and a half years — running $3.23M of revenue through one bank account, one spreadsheet system and one person. The work was never the problem. The measurement was. We found $3.23M in revenue converting to roughly $9,000 of surplus, and traced every dollar of the gap: a margin priced at 15–17% and delivered at 12–16%, 301 days of unrecovered programme overrun, $8,250 of completed variations never invoiced, and preconstruction given away free. Then we costed the fix.
Plus a development arm separated onto its own P&L, and a business that becomes saleable and bankable at an indicative enterprise value of $1.25M – $1.75M — where a one-person business is worth little beyond its work in hand.
Before figures are drawn from the client's own submitted assessment of 18 August 2026. After figures are the modelled end state of a full restructure — 90-day blueprint executed plus twelve months of sustained execution — and are indicative estimates of opportunity, not a forecast, valuation or guarantee of outcome. They have not been verified against source records. Published with the client's written permission.
In their own words
Jason Clarke & Co · Chartered Accountants
A well-run, well-liked practice — nine people, 620 clients, twenty-two years of goodwill — producing exactly what the sector average produces. $1.85M of fee revenue produces $259,000 because eighteen percent of recorded time is never billed, forty percent of the book is priced at yesterday's rates, and the highest-value work the firm does is given away inside compliance meetings. The practice is not underworked. It is underpriced and unmeasured.
Plus ~$365,000 of working capital released as lockup falls from 78 to 32 days, a second signing reviewer appointed so the principal leaves the critical path, and two seniors placed on a documented equity pathway. At a sustained $900,000 EBIT the practice becomes saleable and bankable — indicatively 3.5–4.5× EBIT, or $3.1M – $4.0M, against roughly $1.6M for a compliance-weighted, principal-dependent practice of the same size.
Illustrative worked example prepared by Better Business Australia. Figures are indicative estimates of opportunity under full implementation of the 90-day blueprint and twelve months of sustained execution; they are not a forecast, valuation or guarantee of outcome and have not been verified against source records. Structuring, licensing, taxation and valuation items require advice from appropriately qualified professionals.