Services
Business advisory, built around how your company runs
The work starts with the facts: where the business makes and loses money, how decisions move, and what the leadership team can see. From there, your leaders and Main Street Advisory agree the order of work and put the changes in place together, sequenced against The Six Gauges™.
The engagement work
Work Sequenced Against the Six Readings
These are typical components, not a fixed package.
What an engagement includes, and how long it runs, depends on where your business stands and what has to happen first.
Get in TouchChart of accounts restructure, burdened labor rate installation, job costing, cash management discipline, and a working close cycle.
Process documentation, decision authority mapping, quality mechanisms, and exception-handling design.
Weekly numbers meeting cadence, scorecard build, corrective action mechanism, and planning rhythm.
Pricing rules, sales process design, account ownership institutionalization, and segment mix work.
The longer-term work that reduces owner dependency across all six gauges.
The operating and financial work sequenced against a specific transition or transaction horizon.
How engagements run
From Sequence to Installed Discipline
The six readings determine where the work begins and in what order, because different starting patterns require different sequences to produce meaningful improvement.
The financial foundation is built first, then the gauge work that produces the largest visible improvement, with the sequence continuing from there.
The management system runs the business at standard, so the work continues without the owner personally in every operating decision.
What the Gauges Measure
Decision-grade reporting and working cash management, built on a foundation designed for management rather than tax compliance.
Pricing discipline, sales process, and customer relationships that hold past the owner, with a deliberate segment mix.
Documented processes, quality mechanisms, exception handling, and knowledge continuity.
Named decision authority, defined boundaries, functional leadership, and retention discipline.
A management cadence, scorecard discipline, corrective action, and planning rhythm that run the business.
How much the business depends on the owner personally to keep running, whether relationships institutionalize past the owner, and whether continuity risk has been designed out.
Where the Firm Works
Main Street Advisory works with trade, service and industrial businesses, with a particular focus on owner-operated companies where the owner is still the decision point for most operating and financial questions. Within each segment, the specific dynamics of the vertical shape how the general methodology gets applied.
Next step
Talk through your situation
Start with a short note about what is happening in your business. The first conversations are at no charge and are spent understanding the situation. A defined scope of work follows only once the fit is clear.