We are Professional Business Consultants that help established businesses with real ROI and meaningful change.

No. We do not work with startups, pre-revenue companies, or anyone trying to start a business. We exclusively serve established, privately held U.S. businesses with at least $1 million in annual revenue and between 6 and 500 employees. Learn more about Cogent Analytics.

We work with companies in six industries: Construction, Manufacturing, Wholesale & Distribution, Architecture & Engineering, Transportation, and Technology. See our full industries we serve. If your business is outside these industries, we are not the right consulting firm for you.

Our typical client is a privately held American business with 6 to 500 employees and at least $1 million in annual revenue. We do not serve publicly traded companies, solopreneurs, or sub-$1M operations. Read about who we serve.

Our engagements are focused on three measurable outcomes: increased profitability, improved cash flow, and a better quality of life for the owner. We do this by identifying the real operational and financial problems inside your business and helping you fix them. See real owner outcomes in our client testimonials.

No. We do not write business plans, build pitch decks, or assist with seed funding or venture capital. Those are services for startups. We help existing businesses run better — see our full consulting services.

This is the #1 problem we see in construction: weak job costing, inaccurate WIP schedules, and over/under-billing that masks true gross margin until it's too late. We rebuild job costing, install real-time WIP reporting, tighten change-order discipline, and fix the billing-to-collection cycle so cash actually shows up when the P&L says it should. We work with general contractors, specialty trades, and commercial subs doing $2M–$100M+ in annual revenue. Learn more about our construction consulting.

Most manufacturers we meet are still pricing off cost models that are 12–24 months stale, absorbing overhead incorrectly, and running production schedules that hide bottlenecks. We rebuild standard costing, expose true contribution margin by SKU and customer, optimize throughput on constrained equipment, and install a pricing discipline that protects margin without losing the book. The result is higher gross margin without chasing volume. See our manufacturing consulting services.

You're carrying the wrong inventory. We see it constantly: dead and slow-moving SKUs tying up cash while A-items stock out. We implement SKU rationalization, demand-driven reorder points, supplier-lead-time discipline, and customer/product profitability analysis so you free up working capital, lift fill rates, and stop subsidizing unprofitable accounts. Learn more about our wholesale & distribution consulting.

A&E firms get stuck because billable utilization, project realization, and PM accountability are tracked loosely or not at all. We install the financial and operational rhythm: utilization targets by role, earned-value reporting on every project, fee-burn discipline, and a PM scorecard that surfaces problem jobs early. Senior staff stop being the bottleneck and the firm scales on systems instead of heroics. See our architecture & engineering consulting.

We rebuild lane-level and customer-level profitability, attack deadhead and detention, fix driver-pay structures that misalign incentives, and renegotiate the contracts that have quietly turned unprofitable. For carriers, brokers, and last-mile operators we focus on revenue per truck per week, cost per loaded mile, and DSO — the three numbers that actually move the business. Learn more about our transportation & logistics consulting.

For services, MSP, software, and IT firms we see the same pattern: undisciplined pricing, scope creep, weak time tracking, and customer acquisition costs that aren't measured against lifetime value. We install gross margin by client and by service line, fix billable vs. non-billable mix, rebuild pricing and packaging, and tie sales comp to profitable revenue — not just bookings. Growth becomes profitable growth. See our technology consulting services.

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