The counterintuitive math of running a profitable business
Most owners bet the company on numbers they never actually run.
SystemBreakdowns turns the money math behind every decision into short breakdowns and tools you can run on your own business. Pricing, customers, cash, cost. See the number before you make the call.
Pricing
Margin, markup, discounts, the floor price.
Customers
Who actually makes you money.
Cash
Where your money gets trapped.
Cost
What things really cost to run.
Growth
The traps hiding inside good news.
Every breakdown is runnable
Stop nodding at the idea. Run it on your own numbers.
Other channels hand you an insight and a shrug. Here, every breakdown comes with a tool that plugs in your figures and shows you the result for your business.
The Discount Breakdown
How much more you must sell to break even on a price cut.
Run it →Customer Concentration Risk
See how much of the business walks out with one account.
Run it →Working Capital Requirement
The cash a full order book quietly demands before it pays.
Run it →Plus packs for construction, manufacturing, retail, online business, hospitality, restaurants, property rentals, property maintenance, marketing, sales, and public relations.
The signature tool
The Profit Leak Audit
Answer seven questions about your business and get one honest read: an operating health score, a prioritized list of where you are bleeding money, and the exact breakdown to run for each leak.
It takes about two minutes. No login, no numbers leave your browser.
The breakdown library
The clips do not disappear here.
Every breakdown becomes a permanent page you can search, read, and run. The clips are the ads. The library is the asset.
Why a 10% discount can need 33% more sales
The math behind the most common margin mistake operators make.
How growing too fast runs you out of money
Profit on paper, empty in the bank. The cash gap of growth.
Your biggest customer might be your worst
Revenue is not profit. What it really costs to keep a whale.
Illustrative. Real benchmarks grow as members run their numbers.
Community and benchmarks
Know how you actually compare.
Numbers mean nothing in isolation. Inside the community, members compare anonymized results against operators of the same size and sector, swap breakdowns, and vote on what gets built and filmed next.
The weekly breakdown
One money idea a week, in writing.
Deeper than a 60-second clip and yours to keep. Join the operators who get the breakdown in their inbox.
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The books
The map and the instruments.
Read the arc of scaling a company, then keep the field manual of operating decisions on your desk.
When the number says you need help
Some leaks you fix with a calculator. Some you fix with an operator.
Twenty-six years scaling companies from $28M to $1.6B across construction, manufacturing, distribution, and industrial services. When you are ready to act on what the numbers are telling you, bring in someone who has done it.
Explore advisoryGainshare advisory
We find it, we split it.
For the right operator, the first diagnostic is free. We go through your real numbers, rank the leaks by dollars, agree on what is worth fixing, and take a fixed share only of verified savings.
Pricing, margin, cash conversion, and customer concentration against your actual figures.
Set a baseline, choose the leaks worth fixing, and define how savings are measured.
A flat 20 percent share is invoiced only against verified dollars, not projections.
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