The Margin Leakage X-Ray is a $97 board-ready report that shows you exactly where your business leaks margin: unbilled materials, job-cost drift, and aging A/R, each with the dollar figure per month. Connect QuickBooks read-only or upload your P&L and job list, and the report lands within 48 hours of your data handoff.
If we do not find at least $10,000 a year in leakage, it is free, no questions asked. And the $97 credits toward any Top Builder AI install, so trying it costs you nothing either way.
I have spent years inside contractor books, first as a construction bookkeeper and fractional CFO, now building AI agents that read those same books every night. And I can tell you the pattern I see in almost every set of books I open: the revenue is fine. The margin is leaking.
It leaks in three places, and none of them show up on the P&L you glance at each month. Unbilled materials: the fittings, the wire, the extra trip to the supply house that made it onto the truck but never onto the invoice. Job-cost drift: the jobs you quoted at 45 percent gross margin that quietly closed at 31, one change order and one long afternoon at a time. And aging A/R: the money you already earned, sitting in someone else's bank account past 60 days, financing their business instead of yours.
You feel it. That is why you are reading this page. You work harder than anyone in the building, the trucks are busy, and somehow the bank balance does not move the way the top line says it should. You do not know where the money is going, and not knowing is the worst part.
The X-Ray fixes the not-knowing in 48 hours. You give us read-only access to QuickBooks, or just upload a P&L export and a job list. Our Financial agent, the same deterministic engine that runs inside the full Top Builder AI platform, reads every job, every invoice, and every receivable, and computes exactly where the margin went. Deterministic means computed by tested code, not guessed by an AI. Every dollar figure in your report can be traced back to a line in your own books.
What you get back is a board-ready report: the three leaks, the dollar figure per month for each, the specific jobs and customers behind them, and the first three moves to plug the biggest one. It is the report I used to build by hand for fractional CFO clients paying me thousands a month. You get it for $97 because a machine now does in hours what took me days.
Here is the feeling I am selling, because it is the only thing worth $97 here: you will finally know where the money is going. Not a hunch. Not "we should probably bill better." A number, per leak, per month, with names on it.
Talk soon,Cory SalisburyFounder, Top Builder AI · Salisbury Bookkeeping LLC
If the X-Ray does not identify at least $10,000 a year in margin leakage in your business, backed by line items from your own books, the $97 is refunded in full. No questions, no forms, no "let me check with the team." You reply to one email and the refund goes out.
Why can I make that promise? Because in the books I have audited, $10,000 a year is not the ceiling. It is the floor. The Financial agent inside the full platform surfaced $48,000 in leakage in one modeled HVAC operation. A shop doing $2 million a year that leaks just half a percent of revenue is losing $10,000 without ever seeing it. If your books are genuinely tighter than that, you deserve to know that too, and you deserve to know it for free.
No software to learn, no login to configure. You hand off the data on a 15-minute call and the machine does the rest.
Secure checkout via Stripe. After payment you book your 15-minute handoff call and the 48-hour clock starts there.
Let me name the elephant in the room: $97 does not pay for this. The X-Ray uses the same Financial agent that runs inside the full Top Builder AI platform, the one contractors pay $3,000 to $8,000 a month for. So why sell a slice of it for less than a dinner out?
Because I am betting the report sells the platform better than any ad I could write. Some of the contractors who see exactly where they leak $1,000 or $2,000 or $4,000 a month will decide they want the agent that watches those leaks every single night, not once. Those contractors become install clients, and their $97 comes off the bill. The rest keep a report worth real money, plug the leaks themselves, and we part as friends. That is the whole business model of this page. No obligation, no drip campaign you cannot escape, no surprise call from "your account executive." One report, one honest bet.
A one-time, $97 board-ready report that shows exactly where your contracting business leaks margin: unbilled materials, job-cost drift, and aging A/R, each with the dollar figure per month and the specific jobs and invoices behind it. You connect QuickBooks read-only or upload your P&L and job list, and the report lands within 48 hours of your 15-minute data handoff call. If it does not find at least $10,000 a year in leakage, it is free.
Either a read-only QuickBooks accountant invite to support@topbuilderai.com, or a P&L export plus a job list (a ServiceTitan job report or even a spreadsheet works). Read-only means we can view your books and structurally cannot change them. Your data is used for your report only: it is never sold, never used to train anyone else's agents, and we delete the exports on request when the engagement ends.
No. Every figure is computed by deterministic, tested code, the same Financial agent engine inside the Top Builder AI platform, reading your actual books. The AI writes the plain-English narration around the numbers; it is structurally blocked from computing or altering a figure. Every dollar in your report traces back to a line item you can verify in QuickBooks yourself.
Then the $97 is refunded in full, no questions asked. You reply to one email and the refund goes out. You also keep the report, because a clean bill of health on your books is worth knowing too. In practice, most contractor books leak well past the $10,000 floor: the full platform's Financial agent surfaced $48,000 in one modeled HVAC operation.
Yes, dollar for dollar, toward any Top Builder AI install. And during quarters when the install fee is $0, the credit applies to your first month instead. Either way, if you ever move to the full platform, the X-Ray effectively cost you nothing.
No. The only call in the process is the 15-minute data handoff, and it is exactly that: we confirm what you are sending and answer your questions. The report itself contains the findings and the first three moves to plug the biggest leak. If you want to talk about the full platform afterward, you book that yourself. Nobody chases you.
One of two things: a QuickBooks read-only invite sent to support@topbuilderai.com (takes about two minutes from QuickBooks settings, we walk you through it on the handoff call), or a P&L export and a job list from your field system. That is the entire ask. The 48-hour clock starts the moment we have your data.
For $97, you get the number, the names behind it, and the first three moves. If we do not find at least $10,000 a year, you pay nothing. The only thing you can actually lose here is another quarter of not knowing.
After checkout you book a 15-minute handoff call. The report lands within 48 hours of that call.