Financial Infrastructure Assessment for Contractors
A financial infrastructure assessment scores the systems a construction company uses to see, control and predict money — job costing, the WIP schedule, billing discipline, cash forecasting and the review rhythm around them — rather than the numbers those systems produce. This free 15-question assessment returns a FICS score out of 100 across five layers, benchmarks you against electrical, mechanical, general and specialty contractors at your revenue stage, and names the gap costing you the most margin and cash. It takes about three minutes. You see your score before you enter an email, and there is no sales call required to get the report.
Fifteen questions on job cost, WIP, billing and cash. A FICS score out of 100, benchmarked against contractors at your revenue stage, and the one gap costing you the most. Three minutes, no sales call.
Frequently asked questions
What is a financial infrastructure assessment for a construction company?
It scores the systems that produce your financial picture rather than the picture itself — job costing, the WIP schedule, billing controls, cash forecasting and the leadership rhythm around them. A contractor can have an accurate P&L and still have weak infrastructure if that P&L arrives three weeks after month end, by which point the decisions it should have informed have already been made.
Why do contractors find out about job overruns too late?
Because the overrun is discovered in the accounting cycle rather than in the field. If job cost reports arrive at month-end close and close takes three weeks, a cost problem that started in week one surfaces seven weeks later. Contractors who catch overruns inside 48 hours are reading committed costs against budget continuously, not waiting for the P&L.
What is a WIP schedule and why does it matter beyond bonding?
A work-in-progress schedule compares what you have earned on each job — contract value multiplied by percent complete — against what you have billed, revealing over- and underbilling. Most contractors maintain one because a surety requires it. Used monthly, it is the earliest available warning that a job is fading and the most reliable input to a cash forecast, because it says which billings are real.
How many months of backlog should a contractor have?
Four to six months of contracted work not yet earned is a healthy range for most contractors, with the pipeline beyond that tracked separately. Under three months, pricing discipline tends to erode because every bid starts to feel necessary.
Does this assessment require sharing my financials?
No. It asks fifteen questions about how your systems work, not what your numbers are. Nothing is uploaded, the scoring happens in your browser, and you see your score before entering an email.