Find the money before you fix anything.
A diagnostic priced so you don't have to think about it. Your numbers, your routes, your job packages, and what crossed your desk last week, scored and dollarized. Two versions. One question: where is the margin going?
No call required. Book it, send the data, get the number.
Most owners don't have a problem. They have six small ones.
Nobody loses $125,000 a year in one place. It goes in a crew that leaves the yard at 7:20 instead of 6:45. In change orders that get done and never billed. In a crew leader who calls the owner four times a day because nobody wrote down what he's allowed to decide. In an estimate that was right in March and wrong by June.
None of those shows up on a P&L line. All of them show up in an audit built to look for them.
The Gap Audit is that audit. It doesn't fix anything. It tells you where the money is, in dollars, so the fix is a decision instead of a guess.
Put a rough number on it before you buy the real one.
Seven questions about how the operation actually runs. Two minutes. A dollar estimate of what a Gap Audit would document, built from your crews, your rate, and your yard.
It models three of the nine leaks. The audit measures all nine, from your data, with the math shown. If the estimate is a number you'd rather not have, that's the finding.
Nothing is stored. Nothing is sent. The math runs in your browser.
Annual revenue
$4.0MCrews leaving the yard each morning
5Average crew size
Fully loaded cost per field hour
$26/hrWage plus burden: taxes, comp, benefits, equipment time.
Non-production minutes per crew, per day
40 minStart and end of day combined: loadout, fueling, waiting on direction, dump runs, drop-off.
Do you job-cost against estimated hours?
Estimated hours vs. actual hours, checked while the job can still be corrected.
Do crews document billable extras before doing the work?
Irrigation repairs, enhancements, storm damage, anything outside the contract.
Estimated annual gap
$122,000 – $188,000
per year, at the numbers above
The Paper Audit is $2,476. That is 2% of the low end of this estimate. The audit replaces the estimate with your documented number, line by line, across nine areas of the operation.
Half of either audit fee credits toward a Deep Dive booked within 60 days.
This estimate models three leak categories using patterns from 80+ landscape company audits. Your operation may leak less. It may leak more. That is the point of measuring it.
Paper or Field. Same scorecard, different eyes.
You send the data. Most owners pull it in an afternoon. I audit it.
Everything in the Paper Audit, plus two days watching the operation move. The 6:30 load-out. The ride-along. The end-of-day return.
Paper. The leak is in the P&L, the estimates, or the routes.
Field. The leak is in the yard, the truck, or the property.
Nine places the margin goes. Six on paper. Three in the field.
Paper finds leaks in the numbers. Field finds leaks in the motion.
| Module | What gets looked at | Paper | Field |
| Financials | Labor as a percent of revenue, job costing, overhead recovery, margin by service line | Yes | Yes |
| Estimating | Last 20 bids: estimated vs. actual hours, hit rate, who prices what | Yes | Yes |
| Routing | A week of schedules: drive time vs. wrench time, route density, crew-to-property fit | Yes | Ride-along |
| Job packages | What a crew leader gets handed, and whether the job can run without a call to the owner | Yes | Yes |
| SOPs | What exists, what's used, what lives in one person's head | Yes | Yes |
| Decision rights | What crossed the owner's desk last week, and why | Questionnaire | Observed |
| Start of day | Yard at 6:30: load-out, dispatch, fuel, who's waiting on whom, wheels-up time | No | Yes |
| End of day | Return, unload, paperwork, tomorrow's prep, who leaves when | No | Yes |
| Path of motion | On the property: setup, sequence, wasted steps, crew-leader time off the tools | No | Yes |
Four things. None of them a deck.
Each module scored 1 to 5 with a one-line reason. You'll know which two or three matter and which six are fine.
The three largest leaks, in dollars per year, with how the number was built. Not an estimate you have to take on faith.
Five fixes your current team can make in 30 days without hiring anyone or buying software.
Forty-five minutes on a call, sixty for the Field version. Questions answered, number defended, next step named or not named.
A plan, a build, or implementation. That is the Deep Dive. The Audit tells you where the money is. The Deep Dive goes and gets it.
What the report looks like. Nine pages. No deck.
A Field Audit for an illustrative $4.2M Tampa Bay company: the scorecard, three leaks with the math shown, the Thirty-Day Five, and what didn't make the cut. The diagnostic checklists are blurred in the sample. They aren't in yours.
Ridgeline Landscape Co. is illustrative. The numbers are representative of a $4M company and are not a client's data. Every real report is built from the client's own hours, rates, and properties, and is confidential to the owner.
Half the Audit fee comes off the Deep Dive.
Book a Deep Dive within 60 days of your readout and 50% of what you paid for the Audit credits against it. The diagnosis is done; you don't pay full price for it twice.
How the Deep Dive works →Built for the owner who wants a number, not a theory.
What owners ask before they book.
The Audit diagnoses. The Deep Dive diagnoses and installs. Same scorecard, but the Deep Dive spends three more weeks building the decision rights and the operating cadence and running it with your team. The Audit is what you buy to find out whether the Deep Dive is worth $9,976. Most of the time the Audit answers that on the first page.
Twelve months of P&L, a payroll summary, whatever job costing exists (or ten invoices with the hours behind them), your last 20 estimates and which ones closed, one week of schedules in any format, whatever a crew leader gets handed for a job, any written SOPs (a photo of the whiteboard counts), and a 20-minute owner questionnaire. The request comes the day you book.
Then that's the first finding, and it's usually the most expensive one. A mess is auditable. Missing is auditable. I've never had a data set too rough to score.
No. Book it, send the data, get the readout. If you'd rather talk first, the Fit Call is 25 minutes and free of pitch.
Nothing extra. Flight, car, hotel are inside the $5,476. One number, no expense report, no surprise on the invoice.
You get the scorecard and the number. Then you decide: fix the Thirty-Day Five yourself, book the Deep Dive with half the Audit fee credited, or do nothing with a clearer picture than you had. All three are fine outcomes. Only one of them costs you more.
Book it. Send the data. Get the number.
Paper if the numbers feel wrong. Field if the day feels wrong. Either way, half the fee comes off the Deep Dive if you keep going.
No pitch. No pressure. Nothing to lose but the leak.
Operational infrastructure for landscape companies that want to run without the owner in every decision.
Slow learner. Fast builder.
Twenty-five minutes. Audit, Deep Dive, or Interim, which fits where you are. No pitch.
© 2026 LeadScape™ Partners. All rights reserved.
Operational infrastructure for landscape companies that want to run without the owner in every decision.
Slow learner. Fast builder.
Twenty-five minutes. Deep Dive or Interim, which fits where you are. No pitch.
© 2026 LeadScape™ Partners. All rights reserved.