How Airus helps businesses grow

The Challenge

A commercial roofing company in Atlanta was growing revenue but running on spreadsheets for job costing, manual invoicing, and no formal cash flow forecasting. The owner was making decisions based on bank balance, not financial data. Monthly close took 3+ weeks and job margins were unknown until project completion.

What Airus Built

Built a complete financial infrastructure from scratch: real-time job costing with labor, material, and sub allocation at the project level. Implemented a 13-week rolling cash flow forecast accounting for retainage and progress billing cycles. Created KPI dashboards tracking backlog, margin by project type, and AR aging. Established a 5-day monthly close process with weekly cash flow reviews.

Results

• ✓ Real-time job-level margin visibility for the first time
• ✓ Monthly close reduced from 3+ weeks to 5 business days
• ✓ Cash reserves increased from 2 weeks to 8 weeks coverage
• ✓ Eliminated cash flow surprises through proactive forecasting
• ✓ Invoicing cycle reduced from 30 days to 7 days

The Challenge

A growing consulting firm with 20 employees had no visibility into profitability by client or engagement. Financial reports were consistently late, cash flow was unpredictable, and the founder was making growth decisions based on gut feeling rather than data.

What Airus Built

Airus built a complete financial infrastructure: monthly close process, client-level P&Ls, KPI dashboards tracking utilization and revenue per consultant, and a 13-week cash flow forecast. A fractional CFO provided weekly strategic guidance on pricing, hiring, and capacity planning.

Results

• ✓ 40% improvement in profitability visibility within 90 days
• ✓ Reduced monthly close from 3 weeks to 5 days
• ✓ Identified 2 unprofitable client relationships that were draining resources
• ✓ Cash flow forecasting accuracy improved to 95%
• ✓ Data-driven pricing model increased average engagement value by 15%

The Challenge

A digital agency with 25 employees and $4M in revenue had no financial reporting beyond basic bookkeeping. The founder could not determine which clients were profitable, had no capacity planning, and was spending 15+ hours per week on operational tasks that should have been systematized.

What Airus Built

Built departmental P&Ls, client profitability tracking, monthly close processes, KPI dashboards, utilization tracking, and forecasting models. Added fractional COO support for operational process design, including project handoff workflows, resource allocation systems, and meeting cadences.

Results

• ✓ Owner went from guessing to data-driven decisions within 60 days
• ✓ Identified that 30% of clients were below target margin
• ✓ Built capacity planning model that prevented over-hiring
• ✓ Reduced founder's time on operations by 15 hours per week
• ✓ Increased overall agency margin by 12%

The Challenge

A real estate brokerage with 10+ agents had no financial visibility beyond basic commission tracking. The broker could not determine profitability by agent, had no pipeline forecasting, and marketing spend was untracked against production. Agent draws and commission splits were managed manually.

What Airus Built

Built commission tracking and split management systems, agent-level profitability reports, pipeline-based cash flow forecasting, and marketing ROI dashboards by agent and lead source. Implemented operational workflows for transaction coordination and onboarding.

Results

• ✓ Real-time visibility into profitability by agent for the first time
• ✓ Pipeline-based revenue forecasting replaced bank-balance guessing
• ✓ Identified marketing channels with negative ROI
• ✓ Automated commission calculations reduced errors and admin time by 80%
• ✓ Clean financials improved bonding and credit capacity