Back to overview
Industry example, HVAC, Plumbing & Home Services

A 9-tech home-service co,
$27K/mo recovered.

Home-service companies live on two powerful margin levers most owners never tune systematically: billable labor realization and parts markup. Add flat-rate pricing that drifts behind cost and underbooked trucks, and the leaks add up fast. Here is how our five phases would work on a representative residential HVAC and plumbing company.

The business
Business type
Residential HVAC & plumbing
Annual revenue
$2.4M
Field technicians
9
Service trucks
7
Avg ticket
$540
Current net margin
8%
Representative profile based on industry norms. Not an actual client.
The five-phase analysis
1
Lever — Price
Pricing Intelligence
$9,800
recovered/mo
Flat-rate pricing had not been updated in 18 months and trailed rising labor and material costs. Common repairs and diagnostic fees sat well below regional rates, the single largest recovery in the audit.
2
Lever — Product Mix
Product Mix Optimization
$6,200
recovered/mo
Technicians defaulted to single-repair tickets and rarely presented system replacements or maintenance plans. Repositioning good-better-best options and recurring service agreements lifts margin per call.
3
Lever — Cost of Goods
Cost & Inventory Optimization
$4,600
recovered/mo
Parts and equipment came from one supplier at list, with truck stock loosely tracked. Competitive sourcing and tighter inventory control recovered cost on equipment-heavy jobs.
4
Lever — Labor
Labor Optimization
$4,800
recovered/mo
Billable-hour efficiency sat near 58 percent, with windshield time and gaps between calls eroding the day. Smarter dispatch and routing lifted billable hours without adding techs.
5
Lever — Demand
Demand Optimization
$1,600
recovered/mo
No structured follow-up on aging equipment, declined work, or maintenance-plan renewals. A recall and reactivation program fills slower shoulder-season weeks.
Total margin recovered
$27,000/mo
$324,000projected per year
Illustrative figures modeled on industry benchmarks for a representative business. Actual results depend on your real operations and execution.

Your numbers
are in here too.

This is a representative example. Apply to work with Thezeuz and we'll build the real five-phase picture for your business.

Apply to work with us →
A long-term margin partnership
Applications reviewed within 48 hours · No commitment to apply