Four services.
One operating framework.
Every engagement runs through the ACS Operating Framework — fixed scope, measurable outcomes, delivered alongside your team. Choose the service that fits your problem, or start with a diagnostic.
reduced to 36hrs
cost removed
Stop being the system your business runs on.
We map how work actually moves through your business — not how it's supposed to move. Then we rebuild the workflows that are leaking time, margin, and trust across your quoting, scheduling, job handovers, and invoicing cycle.
The result isn't a process map. It's a business that your team can run, your owner can step back from, and that scales without breaking every time you add a new person or win a new contract.
- End-to-end workflow map across your key operating cycle
- Root cause analysis of where time, margin, and decisions are leaking
- Rebuilt process documentation in the format your team will actually use
- System and tool recommendations (ServiceM8, Procore, Monday.com and others)
- Handover training delivered alongside the team — not over them
- 30-day post-implementation check-in included
the system now handles
in 6 months
every morning
Turn the numbers you already have into decisions you can act on.
Most Perth SMEs are not short on data. They're short on usable data. Quotes, invoices, payroll hours, job costs — it's all there. It just doesn't tell the owner what to do next.
We connect the data you already have, build dashboards that auto-refresh without a spreadsheet sprint each Monday, and deliver the margin visibility that changes how you price, hire, and quote.
- Margin by job, service line, and client — automatically updated
- Labour productivity and utilisation rates
- Cash flow forward 60–90 days
- Lead-to-quote-to-won conversion rates
- Power BI workspace connected live to your accounting system
- Team training on reading and acting on the dashboard
from the ops manager's workload
90-day execution cycle
your actual data
Not a deck. An operating plan built from your actual numbers.
Most business plans fail because they're built away from the business. A facilitator runs a workshop, a consultant builds a slide deck, and everyone agrees it looks great. By month three, nobody's looking at it.
We build your operating plan inside the business, from the numbers, with the team that has to execute it. 12-month targets, pricing review, capacity model, and a 90-day execution plan — built around your reality, not a template.
- Baseline financial and operational diagnostic
- 12-month revenue and capacity targets built from your numbers
- Pricing review — service lines, margin floors, quoting methodology
- Capacity model — what headcount and resource your targets actually require
- 90-day execution plan with named owners and measurable milestones
- Quarterly review framework for the year ahead
actually uses each quarter
caught before close
delivered
Protect the margin before the job starts.
In construction, profitability is decided at the tender desk, not on site. A missed quantity, an under-allowed prelim, a soft scope assumption — that's where the margin disappears. By the time you're on site, it's too late to recover it.
Our estimating principals have sat on the contractor side of the table. We know what gets missed under tender pressure, and we know how to build the cost plan that holds.
- Quantity take-offs from drawings, specifications, and BoQs
- Cost plans at concept, scheme, and tender stage
- Tender reviews 48–72 hours before submission close
- Scope and contract reviews against your priced work
- Variation pricing and claim support during delivery
- Prelim build-up and site cost modelling
submission — standard service
Three stages. Every service. No exceptions.
Every engagement — regardless of which service you start with — runs through the same three-stage framework. Fixed scope, fixed fee, delivered alongside your team.
Diagnose
Weeks 0–0 · Fixed fee · Standalone or front-end
We sit inside the business. We follow a job from quote to invoice. Map where time, margin, and decisions are leaking. You leave with a written diagnostic, baseline metrics, and a prioritised roadmap.
Design
Weeks 0–0 · Documented systems · Team co-design
We build the new systems alongside your team. Not over them. Not handed over as documents. Designed so your people understand, own, and will actually use them.
Deploy
Weeks 0–0 · Implementation · Handover on results
We implement alongside your team. We train, troubleshoot, and stay through the first month of the new way of working. We don't leave until the system runs cleanly without us.
Fixed-scope stages. No hourly billing. No retainer traps.
A Stage 1 Diagnose is a fixed fee, scoped before we start. Most full engagements run 0–0 weeks. When the work is done, the engagement ends.
Real results. Real Perth operators.
"We had four service lines and no idea which ones were profitable. ACS rebuilt our quoting workflow and delivered a Power BI dashboard that showed us everything. Revenue grew 40% in six months."
"We grew from 25 to 50+ employees in 18 months and the wheels were falling off. After the ACS engagement, we don't lose ten minutes on what used to eat half our Friday."
"ACS reviewed our tender 48 hours before submission. Found ~$180k of under-allowed prelims and a soft scope assumption. Resubmitted, won the job, delivered 9% net margin — against our 4–5% average."
Start with the diagnostic. The service will reveal itself.
A Stage 1 Diagnose gives you a written diagnostic, baseline metrics, and a prioritised roadmap — standalone, fixed fee, no commitment to a full engagement. 2–3 weeks. Most clients know exactly which service they need by the end of it.