Your business is sitting on a million dollars. We go get it.
Businesses like yours carry $150K to $400K a year in hidden margin. We find it, capture it with AI, and run it for you. At a 5x multiple, that's $1.25M on your sale price.
One partner. One team. No PowerPoints.
Free. Ten minutes. No follow-up spam.
Every $1 of margin you add is five dollars on your sale price.
Buyers pay a multiple of profit. Lift your EBITDA by $250K and at a 5x multiple your business is worth $1.25M more.
| Annual EBITDA lift | At 4x | At 5x | At 6x |
|---|---|---|---|
| $150,000 | +$600K | +$750K | +$900K |
| $250,000 | +$1.0M | +$1.25M | +$1.5M |
| $400,000 | +$1.6M | +$2.0M | +$2.4M |
Selling in 2 to 5 years? Every quarter you wait is compounded profit you never capture.
Not planning to sell? $250K a year in your pocket. Every year. Your call what you do with it.
There's profit hiding in your operation right now. You're too busy running the business to go find it.
It's not a people problem. Your team works hard. The margin is trapped in manual processes, missed revenue, and systems that were never built.
- 78% of after-hours callers never leave a voicemail. They call your competitor instead. That's $15K to $40K a year that rang your phone and walked away.
- Your estimators spend a third of their week on manual takeoffs. That's $23K to $60K a year in salary on work AI finishes in minutes.
- $200K+ in open quotes sitting with no follow-up. Systematic follow-up lifts close rates 15 to 25%. The money's already in your pipeline.
- 20 hours a week re-keying field data by hand. Invoice cycles drag 6 to 12 days when they should close in hours. Cash is stuck in the truck.
Add those up: $150K to $400K a year trapped inside your operation. Not because anyone's doing a bad job. Because the systems to capture it were never built.
One partner. One team. Your operation gets better every month.
We put a senior partner on your account who learns your P&L, walks your operation, and puts a dollar figure on every opportunity. A build team behind them does the work. You see the results in monthly reports.
First 30 days: Find the money.
Full operational audit across seven categories. You get a written Value Assessment with real dollar figures and EBITDA projections. Your first build ships before the report is finished.
Every month after: Capture it.
We build the systems, wire them into your existing software, and run them. Monthly report: dollars recovered, dollars saved, what's next. Same partner, same team, no handoff.
Flat monthly retainer. Three-month minimum, then month-to-month. Cancel any time after that if it's not paying for itself. See pricing →
Seven places the money’s hiding.
We audit all seven in your first thirty days. Each one has a number attached. Add them up and you get the figure that moves your valuation.
Call handling
$15K to $40K a year in missed after-hours calls. 78% of callers who hit voicemail call your competitor instead.
[BIA/Kelsey]
Estimating & quoting
Manual takeoffs eat a third of your estimator’s week. That’s $23K to $60K a year in salary on work AI finishes in minutes.
[Industry estimate]
Documentation & compliance
20 hours a week re-keying field forms. Invoice cycles dragging 6 to 12 days. Cash stuck in the truck.
[Industry estimate]
Follow-up & retention
$200K+ in open quotes with no follow-up. Systematic follow-up lifts close rates 15 to 25%. The money’s already in your pipeline.
[HubSpot]
Scheduling & dispatch
Smarter routing gives every crew 2 to 4 billable hours back per week. At $150/hour, that’s $15K to $30K per truck per year.
[Industry estimate]
Reporting & intelligence
Most owners fly blind until end of quarter. Automated reporting catches problems while they’re still cheap to fix.
[Industry estimate]
Inventory & parts
Emergency orders cost 20 to 40% more than planned purchases. Automated reordering kills the premium.
[Industry estimate]
Built for the owner who knows there's money in the operation but can't stop long enough to go find it.
HVAC. Dental. Accounting. Construction. Specialty trades. The industry matters less than the pattern: manual work is eating your margin and nobody on your team has the bandwidth to fix it.
- $1M to $20M in annual revenue
- Five to fifty employees, most of the heavy admin still on spreadsheets and paper
- One decision-maker who can say yes on a call. No committee.
- Preparing for a sale, an acquisition, or just done watching profit leave the building
Three paths. Only one puts money back on the books in 90 days.
Do it yourself
Buy the software. Try to configure it between running the business. Six months later the licenses are paid and the tools sit unused. The margin stays exactly where it is.
IRONBACK
One partner who learns your P&L. A team that builds and runs the systems. Results on the books in your first 90 days. Cancel any time after the minimum term if it's not paying for itself.
Hire a consultant
You get a binder. You implement it. Or you don't, because you're running a business. The binder goes on a shelf. The margin stays hidden.
Our first audit typically uncovers $150K to $400K a year in untapped margin. The retainer pays for itself before the minimum term ends.
We've been inside the operations we're asking you to open up.
We've watched operational drag quietly gut valuations for years. Owners prepare for a sale and walk out with an offer 30% below what they expected. The diligence report always points to the same fixable problems. Manual processes. Missed revenue. Systems that were never built.
We started IRONBACK because we kept seeing the same pattern: the profit was there, but nobody inside the business had the time or the tools to capture it.
I run this firm. I've operated inside businesses and evaluated them for acquisition. The team behind me is senior by design. You're not paying us to learn.
— Andrew Swiler, Founder
Frequently Asked Questions
Find out what your business is really worth.
We scan your online presence, benchmark you against local competitors, and walk you through nine operational questions. You get a scored report with dollar figures and a 90-day recovery plan. Ten minutes. Free.
Andrew Swiler · andrew@ironback.ai
