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Two minutes with these will tell you more than an hour with a brochure.

Free, private and immediate. Nothing you enter is stored or sent anywhere. If the result makes you want to talk, we are a call away.

Tool 01

The Fortis business health check

Twenty honest questions across the five areas every business has to get right. You get a score per area, an overall score and the two places we would start.

Twenty questions, two minutes. Answer honestly.

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01Numbers

  • We see management accounts within two weeks of month end

  • We know our gross margin by product, service or customer group

  • We run a cash forecast that looks at least 13 weeks ahead

  • The tax bill is forecast and set aside, never a surprise

02People

  • Every employee has a compliant written contract

  • Managers know how to handle absence, grievance and performance issues

  • We hire ahead of demand rather than in a panic

  • The business could run for two weeks without the owner

03Systems

  • Leads, quotes, jobs and invoices live in one system, not spreadsheets

  • Data is entered once and flows between our tools

  • Staff can answer customer questions without asking the owner

  • We have tried AI on at least one process and measured the result

04Cost

  • Our top twenty suppliers have been reviewed in the last two years

  • Nothing auto-renews without someone deciding it should

  • Purchases above a threshold need approval

  • Insurance cover has been independently reviewed against the actual risk

05Growth

  • We have a written plan with milestones for the next three years

  • Marketing is measured on cost per enquiry and cost per sale

  • Our website ranks for the terms we actually sell

  • We review the plan against actuals at least quarterly

Nothing is stored or sent. The score is calculated in your browser.

Tool 02

Margin and break-even calculator

Put in your revenue, cost of sales and overheads. Then see what a small price rise and a modest cost reduction do to profit and break-even. Most owners are surprised.

Your figures

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Materials, direct labour, subcontract, anything that scales with sales.

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Rent, salaries, insurance, software, everything else.

What if

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Today

Gross profit
£380,000
Gross margin
38.0%
Operating profit
£80,000
Break-even revenue
£789,474

After the changes

Gross profit
£441,000
Gross margin
42.8%
Operating profit
£141,000
Break-even revenue
£700,680

Profit change: £61,000. After a 3% price rise you could lose up to 4.5% of volume and still make the same gross profit as today. Small changes to price and cost of sales usually beat large changes to sales volume.

Simple model for illustration: assumes no volume loss from the price change and overheads unchanged. Your figures stay in your browser. For a proper pricing and margin review, talk to us.

Want the numbers done properly?

The tools give you a direction. A diagnostic gives you the answer, with a plan and a fixed fee.

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