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Profit Per Project Diagnostic

Find your true project margin after meetings, internal communication, revisions and overhead.

Your inputs

Illustrative starting inputs. Estimates only, not financial advice or a contractual SLA assessment. Nothing is saved or sent.

Net project profit
£3,000.00
Net margin
30.0%
Total project cost
£7,000.00
Hidden time cost
£1,600.00
Delivery100 hours
Meetings10 hours
Internal comms10 hours
Revisions20 hours

Validate actual time and expenses before treating this estimate as realised profit.

Your report

Project profitability (GBP, excludes tax)
Quoted price: £10,000.00
Total effort: 140 hours
Labour cost: £5,600.00
Non-delivery time cost: £1,600.00
Overhead: £1,000.00
Expenses: £400.00
Total cost: £7,000.00
Net profit: £3,000.00
Net margin: 30.0%

Count every person's time, including parallel meeting attendance. Labour cost should exclude overhead already entered separately. Expenses exclude recoverable tax. No income/corporation tax is included. Next step: validate time logs and renegotiate future scope if margin is below your target.
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