The numbers, with their receipts
3 off target
Whole-firm economics. Where AGI comes from, how it is allocated, and how productive the team is.
Each tile offers to run a diagnostic and email you the likely drivers plus next steps whenever the metric is off target. Setting a cadence records the intent now. The automatic run and the email are staged behind the cadence engine.
Adjusted gross income, its allocation, and yield per head.
Adjusted gross income. Revenue net of pass-through costs.
How adjusted gross income splits across people, overhead, and profit.
- People
- 55%55 to 60%
- Overhead
- 27%20 to 25% · out
- Profit
- 18%~20%, floor 10% · out
What likely moved this. Hypotheses from the memory, not a verified cause.
- Overhead rose with two senior hires that are not yet billable.
- A new office lease landed this quarter.
- AGI held roughly flat, so fixed costs took a larger share.
- Run a diagnostic now. Investigates the likely drivers. It does not auto-fix or send anything. The run is staged behind the cadence engine.
- Open the records. Drill-through to the underlying records is pending the serving layer.
Adjusted gross income per full-time-equivalent employee.
What likely moved this. Hypotheses from the memory, not a verified cause.
- Headcount grew 18% while AGI grew 6%.
- Two hires from April are still ramping to full billability.
- A paused retainer trimmed billable AGI for the period.
- Run a diagnostic now. Investigates the likely drivers. It does not auto-fix or send anything. The run is staged behind the cadence engine.
- Open the records. Drill-through to the underlying records is pending the serving layer.
How fully and how billably the team's hours are spent.
Share of available hours logged to client work.
What likely moved this. Hypotheses from the memory, not a verified cause.
- Two practitioners were on PTO for part of the period.
- A paused retainer freed capacity that has not been reassigned.
- Intake was light, so fewer billable hours were available to book.
- Run a diagnostic now. Investigates the likely drivers. It does not auto-fix or send anything. The run is staged behind the cadence engine.
- Open the records. Drill-through to the underlying records is pending the serving layer.
Share of logged hours that are billable to clients.
Adjusted gross income per account executive.
The book of business and the pipeline feeding it.
Retainer engagements currently active.
Open deal value across clients.
Share of clients retained over the trailing year.