Clear Answers Before You Make A Decision.

The Labor, cash & jobs tab provides a fully loaded labor breakdown: payroll plus overtime, employer payroll taxes, benefits, workers’ compensation, and other employer costs. Enter wages once and employer costs excluded from those wages. Paid and productive hours support hourly cost comparisons. The breakdown does not automatically add costs to the monthly scan; include those costs once in your expense records or category totals.

The detailed review includes a partial profit-to-cash bridge using accrual profit, changes in receivables, inventory and payables, noncash expense add-backs, loan principal, cash capital purchases, distributions, and funding. It explains the entered differences between profit and cash, but does not fetch your balance sheet or create a complete statement of cash flows.

You can enter individual jobs, planned and actual labor hours, a fully loaded hourly rate, materials, other direct costs, and incremental rework costs. PulseIQ shows job contribution before unallocated overhead and the cost of excess labor hours. Those excess hours are already included in actual job cost, so they are not added again to the monthly recovery estimate.

For a monthly scan, use the same month’s revenue, category costs, and your own budgets. For labor detail, use payroll and employer-cost reports plus paid hours. For the cash bridge, use accrual profit and beginning and ending balance sheets, with records of principal payments, capital purchases, distributions, and funding. For job detail, use job revenue, planned hours, time records, and direct costs. Missing records limit the conclusions; do not treat a blank field as confirmed zero.

Use your P&L, balance sheet, and cash-flow statement as the financial foundation. PulseIQ helps turn a cost variance into a practical investigation: which shift, vendor, job, or repeat-work pattern should you check? The monthly scan does not automatically establish root causes or replace bookkeeping.

No. The separate labor, cash, and job review stays available while this workspace remains open for the same business and reporting period. Download its text report before leaving or switching businesses or months. The review is not included in saved snapshots or the executive PDF.

PulseIQ is built for growing service businesses and operational teams that already have reports, spreadsheets, or business data but need a clearer path from numbers to decisions. The same framework can support retail, agencies, contact centers, home services, and other operations with measurable labor, customer, sales, or workflow data.

No. Start with the decision you need to make. PulseIQ helps identify which information is most useful for that question. A focused, relevant analysis is often more valuable than collecting every report in the business.

The free diagnostic accepts monthly revenue, targets, operating-cost categories, and optional lead-recovery inputs. You can enter values manually or use the downloadable category / actual / target CSV template.

No. A variance is a signal to investigate, not an instruction to reduce spending. Higher costs may be justified by growth, seasonality, service quality, capacity, or strategy. PulseIQ prioritizes financial impact so you know where a closer review may be most valuable.

No. The free diagnostic is an operational decision-support tool based on the figures entered. It is not a GAAP financial statement, tax return, valuation, audit, or guarantee of savings.

The free scan surfaces high-value signals using the numbers you enter. Paid analysis goes deeper into the supporting data, examines patterns and likely drivers, states assumptions and limitations, and translates findings into prioritized business actions.

The $149 Quick Leak Check focuses on one operational question and one dataset. It is designed to surface the most relevant patterns or risks and deliver three prioritized recommendations in a concise action brief.

The $399 Profit Leak Analysis is a broader review of up to four data sources. It is designed to provide an operational health view, financial-impact estimates, visual findings, root-cause analysis, and a 30-minute results call.

Monthly Pulse is $199 per month for businesses that want ongoing KPI review, trend and risk visibility, updated priorities, and a recurring executive scorecard after the operation has been initially understood.

Do not send passwords, bank credentials, payment-card data, Social Security numbers, medical records, or unrelated sensitive personal information. Provide only what is necessary for the business question being analyzed.

No. Opportunity estimates and recovery scenarios are planning tools. Actual results depend on the underlying cause, implementation cost, capacity, customer behavior, market conditions, and other operating factors.

Visit the Methodology page for the current actual-vs-target, missed-lead, operating-margin, health-score, expense-review, and recovery-scenario logic.