For restoration companies

Where is your business actually leaking money?

A few short questions about how you handle collections, margin and carrier risk. You get back a finding for each one, built from your own answers, with the specific answer behind it.

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5 min

start to finish, on your phone or at a desk

areas checked: collections, margin, carrier risk, and time lost to manual work

$560K to $951K

in leaks the sample report below surfaces. Free to see yours

Not another generic quiz

Built to catch something real, not flatter you

You’ve seen free “calculators” before. This one’s built differently, on purpose.

Real questions, not a form
“What actually happens when an invoice passes 45 days” gets a different answer from every company. That answer becomes the evidence in your report, not a dropdown that means nothing.
Not knowing is the finding
If you can’t name the exact dollar amount sitting in receivables past 60 days, that’s not a gap in the quiz. That’s the leak. We say so, plainly.
Your own words, used as evidence
One question asks what actually keeps you up at night. Your answer gets quoted back to you, tied directly to a specific finding.

What gets checked

Four places money and time go missing

Every report covers all four, including the ones that come back clean. Credit where it is due, not a list of problems.

Collections
Where is it stuck: a documentation gap, a carrier delay, or a follow-up nobody sent?
Margin
Where is it thin: by job type, or hidden in one blended number?
Carrier risk
Where is it exposed: photos, notes, or scope a carrier can cut?
Time lost to manual work
Where is it going: rekeying, chasing, or stitching systems together by hand?

What you get back

Your number, the moment you finish

No waiting on a callback, no sales call to sit through first. The full breakdown follows in your inbox, with a link you can come back to any time, or forward straight to your team.

A finding for each of the four areas, with a dollar range where we can source one, and an annualized total
A separate, clearly labeled growth scenario built from your own revenue and job count
Straight talk about what an estimate from your answers can and cannot see

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Sample report

5 min

Potential leak range, annualized

$560,000to$951,000

Cash sitting in collections longer than it should

$186,000 to $269,000per year

You told us it takes 120 days or more to get paid, nothing happens past 45 days until the adjuster or customer reaches out, and you have no idea what is sitting past 60 days. With no set trigger and no running total, nobody owns the moment an invoice goes from late to stuck.

Getting paid is now the number one problem restoration owners name, ahead of hiring. On insurance-funded work, the biggest groups wait between 31 and 60 days to collect in full, and roughly one in five wait longer than 60.

2026 State of the Industry Report, C&R Magazine and KnowHow

Time to payment:: 120+ days
Follow-up at 45 days:: Nothing until the adjuster or customer reaches out first
Receivables past 60 days:: No idea

Margin hidden inside one blended number

$180,000 to $330,000per year

You told us gross margin by job type is not something you really track and nobody has checked markups and labor rates against what you pay, as far as you know. One number cannot tell you which work pays, so a figure can look fine while one job type quietly funds a loss on another.

Restoration companies are spread wide on this: 19% run gross margins under 20% while 22% clear 50%. Where a company lands in that spread is decided job by job, and no published figure splits it that way.

2026 Restoration Benchmarking Survey, Cleanfax (ISSA)

Margin visibility:: We don't really track this
Rate and markup checks:: No, not that I know of

Carrier risk on carrier-funded jobs

$180,000 to $330,000per year

You told us a carrier has cut a line item over documentation more than once in the last 6 months and you are not very sure today's jobs would survive a carrier review. A cut line item is revenue you earned and cannot re-bill, and being unsure about open jobs makes the exposure every job.

The industry survey is blunt about this one: companies that are good at documentation get paid faster, and companies that are not lose margin they earned.

2026 State of the Industry Report, C&R Magazine and KnowHow

Carrier cuts in the last 6 months:: More than once

Time lost stitching systems together by hand

$14,000 to $22,000per year

10+ hours a week is 480 to 720 hours a year, priced here at $30 an hour.

You told us someone spends 10 or more hours a week pulling job and AR data together by hand and it takes 4 or more systems to answer where a job stands. Those are hours your team does not have the next time a job comes in, spent producing an answer the systems already hold.

Nearly nine in ten restoration companies keep every piece of administration in-house, and the ones seeing real gains are rebuilding how the work flows rather than writing faster emails.

2026 State of the Industry Report, C&R Magazine and KnowHow

Hours a week pulling data together:: 10+ hrs
Systems to answer one question:: 4 or more

Beyond the leaks

What getting that time back is actually worth

Your revenue and job-count answers put your average job at around $33,300. Reclaiming 480 hours a year, at roughly 80 office hours a job, is capacity for about 6 more. At your average job value that is worth roughly $199,800.

$199,800a year

This is an illustrative scenario built from your own revenue, job-count and hours answers, using our own working figure for the office time a job takes. It is not a projection or a guarantee. It's meant to be the actual conversation on the call, not the final word.

Representative of a $10-20M revenue restoration business.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I have to log into anything?: No. There is no account, no password, and nothing to install. You answer the questions in your browser and your number is on screen the moment you finish. Your name and work email at the end is what sends the full report to your inbox.
Where do the numbers come from?: Your own answers. Each range is what you told us about your revenue, your job count and how you handle collections, run through a fixed set of rules, so the same answers always produce the same numbers. Nothing is drawn from a pool of other companies. Where there is an industry figure behind a finding, the card prints it separately and names the survey it came from underneath, most often the 2026 State of the Industry Report, C&R Magazine and KnowHow.

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Where is your business actually leaking money?

Real questions, not a form

Not knowing is the finding

Your own words, used as evidence

Collections

Margin

Carrier risk

Time lost to manual work

Your number, the moment you finish

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