Regional Construction Contractor
Four months of bank statements, rebuilt into books the owner could finally trust, with $180,000 in annualized savings identified.
Profitable on paper. Short on cash every month.
This client is a regional construction contractor, a family-owned business in Utah. Before we say anything else: the contractor is connected to AGO's founder. This is a family business and it was the first set of books Alan ever rebuilt professionally. We're telling you that up front because a case study you can't trust is worthless and because it explains why AGO exists at all. This engagement is where the company came from.
The problem was the one we now see everywhere. The business looked profitable on paper, but the account ran short month after month and the owner couldn't explain the gap. The raw material was four months of bank statements (some as documents, some as phone photos) and no categorized record of where the money actually went.
Rebuild the books from the bank statements up
Alan took the engagement down to transaction level. Every deposit and withdrawal from September through December of the previous year was extracted, verified against statement totals and sorted: expenses into fourteen categories (from materials and fuel to insurance, payroll and legal) and revenue into its separate streams. From there he built monthly cash flow summaries, traced the cash conversion cycle end to end and pulled the patterns into a live KPI dashboard with an executive summary the owner could read in two minutes.
The findings were delivered as a 24-slide forensic findings deck. Every issue in it was tracked on a red / amber / green status board, so the owner always knew what was urgent, what was being watched and what was fixed. The final piece was a restructured expense base and a monthly routine to keep the numbers current going forward.
Red: act now
Costing money today. Gets a fix, an owner and a deadline before anything else moves.
Amber: watch
Trending the wrong way. Measured every month; escalates to red if it keeps sliding.
Green: on track
Working as it should. Left alone, checked at the monthly review and credited to the owner.
Every finding in the deck carries one of these three statuses, reviewed monthly.
What the numbers showed
The rebuilt books surfaced roughly $180,000 in annualized savings. The restructured expense base cut operating expense by 15%. Alongside the financial work, the client's digital exposure grew 38%. When the engagement window closed, the owner chose to keep going: the client is now working with us monthly, with statements processed, dashboards updated and a review meeting every month.
$180,000
Annualized savings identified
15%
Operating expense reduction
38%
Increase in digital exposure
24
Slides in the forensic findings deck
Sep–Dec
Engagement window: the previous year
Monthly
Client relationship today: working with us monthly, ongoing
What the owner holds in their hands
If your books wouldn't survive this treatment, that's the point.
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