It never leaves as one big loss. It leaks — bench hours nobody flagged, scope nobody billed, decisions nobody made. Nova Path Group finds the leaks in hours-based firms, prices them, and installs the operating rhythm that closes them. We ran a $15M practice for eight years. We know where to look.
Run a 60-person firm at a $150 blended rate? Here's roughly what a normal year of "we're fine" costs. Every entry below came out of a real operation we've either run or reviewed.
Every firm's ledger is different. The diagnostic writes yours — in two weeks, with real numbers.
See the diagnosticMost leaders know their utilization is "somewhere in the low seventies." Few have priced what a single point is worth — which is why nobody owns it.
Put your numbers in. The math is the same one that turned a 3-point gain into $600K of profit on a practice we ran.
Fixed prices, published here, because you'd ask anyway. Most firms start with the diagnostic — it's two weeks, it's cheap relative to what it finds, and the roadmap is yours whether you ever call us again.
Two weeks inside your operation. Out the other side: your leak ledger — every drag, priced — and a 90-day plan sequenced to close it. Yours to run with us or without us.
For firms that already know where it leaks. We install the resourcing model, the dashboard, and the weekly cadence that move utilization 3–10 points. Built to keep running after we leave.
Embedded senior ops leadership between hires or through a scaling mess. PMO, resourcing, KPIs, operating cadence — the seat filled, without the payroll.
No borrowed case studies. No frameworks named after mountains. This is a P&L we ran.
This isn't a survey and it isn't a workshop. It's the discovery we'd run if we were stepping into your business as the COO — compressed into ten working days.
The methodology is repeatable; we ran it for years inside a $15M practice. What's new every time is what it finds in yours.
Timesheets, SOWs, pipeline, the P&L — and the resourcing spreadsheet with the colors. We learn how the business runs on paper.
The Monday resourcing call. The pipeline review. The status standups. We watch where hours actually go — and where they quietly disappear.
Root cause, not symptom. Each drag gets a dollar figure and a benchmark against firms your size, so you know which fights are worth having.
A prioritized 90-day roadmap — sequenced, owned, quantified. Built to be executable with us or without us. That part is deliberate.
We've done consultants before.
So have we — from the client chair, which is exactly why the output is a priced ledger and a sequenced plan, not a 90-slide deck. It's also why the diagnostic is $6,000 fixed, published on this page, instead of a land-and-expand.
We're slammed right now.
Slammed-but-not-more-profitable is the symptom we treat. The diagnostic needs about six hours of your leadership's time across two weeks. We do the rest around your calendar, not on it.
Can't we just fix this internally?
Maybe — the plan is yours either way, and it's written so your team can run it. But the person who'd lead it internally is the person with no free hours. See the previous question.
I spent eight years running the operations layer of a services business — PM to Senior Director, a $15M practice inside a $75M division. Every hours-based firm I've been inside leaks in the same five places. Only the amounts change.
The fix was never a framework. It's an operating rhythm: real-time visibility, a resourcing model people actually follow, and decisions with owners. Installed, then kept. That's the product.
— RJ · PMP · formerly Sr. Director, Program Management — Perkuto / Merge World
Thirty minutes. We'll ask three questions about how your operation actually runs, tell you straight whether we can help — and if we can't, hand you the name of someone who can. That's the whole call.
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