Two sectors. Yours is one of them.

Specialists, not generalists. A benchmark from five hundred manufacturers tells you what average looks like. It cannot tell you which of your three foremen is the bottleneck.

Sector 1

Mining-services contractors

AU$5M to AU$50M revenue. In Australia and overseas, wherever the sites are.

Tier-one client concentration, thin tender margins, labour-hire exposure and shutdown-cycle swings. Each is a strategy problem dressed as an operations problem, and none shows up in a generic manufacturing benchmark.

“Two clients are 60% of revenue and I cannot say no to either.”

“We are winning tenders and the margin still is not there.”

“Mobilisation eats the first three weeks of every shutdown.”

Winning tenders without the margin? Run the numbers

Sector 2

Metal fabrication and industrial manufacturing

AU$10M to AU$60M revenue. Australian and overseas fabricators and manufacturers, especially those supplying mining.

Margins shrinking without a visible cause, lead times losing tenders, and a digital or ESG obligation nobody has had time to scope. These businesses sit inside mining-services supply chains, so the problems, and the fixes, carry across.

Three models we bring to the first meeting.

Built for these two sectors before we ever meet you.

Cost-to-serve model

Contract-by-contract margin breakdown. Shows which tier-one accounts are quietly losing money, usually the ones nobody questions.

Tender margin diagnostic

Win rate plotted against realised margin across your last twenty tenders. The most uncomfortable chart we show an MD, and the most useful.

Shutdown scheduling benchmark

Labour use and mobilisation cost across shutdown cycles, measured the same way every time.