For Trades and Service Businesses

Your Trade Is Strong. Your Business Should Be Too.

You built a contracting, agency, or service business on skill and hustle. Now you are navigating cash flow, crew capacity, bidding, and growth decisions that feel anything but straightforward. Sage Advisory Co. helps owner-led trades and service firms build the strategy and systems to grow sustainably without working more hours.

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30 minutes. No cost. No obligation. Tailored to your operation.

15+

Years of experience

Harvard

Business Strategy certified

Fortune 100

to local SMBs

6 Sigma

Lean process expertise

The Growth Gap in Trades and Services

Most trade and service businesses hit the same wall. You are great at the work. The business side gets harder as you scale: unpredictable cash flow, crew capacity, quoting accuracy, and decisions that feel like guesses.

Feast-or-Famine Cash Flow

Revenue swings with the seasons and the pipeline lives in your head. Without a clear view of backlog, job margins, and capacity, every month feels like starting over.

Operations Outgrowing the Whiteboard

What worked with two trucks does not work with ten. Scheduling, quoting, procurement, and crew management need systems, not sticky notes and memory.

Bids and Pricing on Instinct

Are you winning work at the right price? Without job costing and a data-backed pricing model, you can be busy all year and still wonder where the profit went.

How We Help Trades and Service Firms

Three ways to move your business forward. Each is built around your specific situation, goals, and budget.

Pillar 1

The Throughline Diagnostic

A 28-day deep dive that finds hidden profit opportunity across your operation. Job costing and quoting accuracy, crew utilization, backlog and capacity, and cash flow analyzed as a connected system.

Fixed price and timeline. Budget with confidence.

See exactly where your profit is and what to do about it.

Pillar 2

Targeted Gap Engagement

Already know what needs fixing? A focused engagement for one specific gap. Quoting and job-costing systems, crew scheduling workflow, or pricing strategy for your services. Custom scoped to your need and budget.

Fixed price and timeline. No billing surprises.

Fix the one thing that is holding you back.

Pillar 3

Entrepreneurial Coaching

Ongoing partnership for owners who want a trusted advisor in their corner. Strategic thinking, accountability, and decision support as you navigate growth, hiring, and the everyday challenges of running a service business.

Flexible cadence. Tailored to your goals.

A sounding board and a system for consistent progress.

What to Expect

1

Book your free 30-minute assessment

Tell us about your business. We listen, ask the right questions, and identify one or two high-impact areas to explore further. No sales pitch.

2

Get the full diagnostic picture (optional)

If you want to go deeper, the Throughline Diagnostic provides a data-driven assessment with prioritized recommendations across financials, operations, quoting, and team. Fixed price. 28-day timeline.

3

Execute with hands-on support

Choose the recommendations you want to act on. We provide implementation support to make them real. You stay in control of every decision.

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