Seven pillars. Plain English. A few minutes.
Standard financial reviews read two documents — the P&L and the Balance Sheet — and call it a picture. The Sure Foundation reads the failure patterns that live betweenthe lines of those documents: cash diverging from profit, job costs hiding in overhead, growth running on borrowed money. Every check is deterministic math, written in plain English for an owner — and anything your numbers can’t answer is labeled “not assessed,” honestly, instead of guessed.
Three steps, no account
Put in your numbers
Type seven numbers straight off your P&L and bank statement, or upload your QuickBooks P&L + Balance Sheet exports. The free scan runs entirely in your browser — your numbers never leave the page, and there's no account.
Get the read
Red / yellow / green across every pillar your numbers can answer, each verdict in owner's English with the reasoning shown — not a score out of a black box.
See what's cracking — and what Monday looks like
Your top issues ranked by urgency, and for the reddest pillar, the first three moves: who owns each one and the number that has to change in 30 days.
Add a second month and the scan unlocks its trend reads — whether profit is becoming cash, and which direction the cracks are moving. That’s where slow failures show themselves.
The seven pillars
Across the three legs every business stands on — getting work, doing work, getting paid.
Cash generation vs. reported profit
“Revenue looks great — but where's the money?”
Whether the profit on your P&L is showing up as real cash, or living on paper as receivables and over-billing. This is the pillar that flatters a company right up to the end — profit booked, bank account sliding.
Job-level cost visibility
“Do you know what each job actually made?”
Whether your books can even answer what a job cost. In most contractor books, labor, supervision, and subs sit in overhead — so per-job profit is invisible and a 'profitable' year can hide money-losing work. This is the pillar that took the founder's company.
Cash conversion cycle
“How long is your money stuck in other people's hands?”
How fast billed work becomes cash in the bank — receivables aging, retainage drag, the gap between paying your subs and getting paid yourself.
Burn rate & runway
“If the phone stopped ringing, how long would you last?”
What the business spends per month against what it holds — the honest count of months of survival at the current pace.
Debt burden
“Is the growth yours, or borrowed?”
Whether earnings actually cover the debt service, and whether the balance sheet is quietly becoming the lender's.
Operational discipline
“Does the business run on systems or on you?”
Change-order capture, billing cadence, close discipline — the habits that decide whether the numbers you look at are even current.
Sales pipeline & conversion
“Is next quarter's work actually out there?”
Bid volume, hit rate, and pipeline coverage — whether the work that pays next quarter's bills exists yet anywhere but hope.
The free scan scores every pillar your typed or uploaded numbers can answer. Pillar 2 — job costing — needs your real books, which is exactly why it’s the heart of the $750 Real-Books Readout. Pillar 7 needs your bid log — that’s the Session.
What the scan will never do
- Guess.Every verdict is computed from the numbers you provide; missing data reads “not assessed,” never invented.
- Flatter you.A green scan tells you plainly what it could and couldn’t see — the founder’s company read clean on exactly this kind of surface check.
- Replace your advisors. It’s an informational diagnostic — the findings go to your own bookkeeper, CPA, and counsel, sharper than they’ve ever gone.