The reports said my company was healthy. A year later it was gone.
I built a multi-million-dollar construction company that passed the standard financial reviews. The trouble was never in those reports — it was in what they don’t read. The Sure Foundation is the diagnostic I wish I’d had: it reads the numbers standard reports miss, in plain English — type in seven numbers off your P&L and the scan does the rest in seconds.
— RJ Patino, founder
Built for construction & trade businesses doing $1M–$20M.
Your numbers never leave your browser — the free scan runs entirely on your device. No account needed.
Five reads pass. One is the crack that takes companies down —and it’s the one standard reports can’t see.
Growing on top. Cracking underneath.
Open the sample report and look at the top line: revenue climbing, profit on the books. Now look at the scorecard — red. Profit isn’t turning into cash, receivables are aging, and the growth is running on borrowed money. That’s the kind of crack a healthy-looking P&L hides — and every builder I know has been told “you’re fine” by someone reading only the surface numbers.
Statuses shown from the sample report.
Seven pillars across the three legs every business stands on: Cash generation vs. reported profit · Job-level cost visibility · Cash conversion cycle · Burn rate & runway · Debt burden · Operational discipline · Sales pipeline & conversion.
See the full sample report →A few minutes to the truth
Type in seven numbers straight off your P&L — or upload the export if you have one handy. The scan itself takes seconds.
Put in your numbers
Type in seven numbers straight off your P&L and bank statement — or upload an export if you have one. No account, no sales call, and your numbers never leave your browser.
Get the plain-English read
Red / yellow / green across every pillar your numbers can answer — written for an owner, not an accountant. Pillars that need data your books don't carry show as locked, honestly.
See what's cracking
Your top three issues, ranked by urgency — the truth the surface numbers were hiding, while there's still time to fix it.
Start free. Go as deep as your business needs.
The Free Scan
$0
The seven-pillar scorecard on numbers you type in — every pillar your financials can answer, scored red/yellow/green. Shows you where the problems are; the dollar figures stay hidden.
Run my free scan →The Real-Books Readout
$750
We run the diagnostic on your actual QuickBooks and put real dollar figures on every book-based pillar — plus a recorded walkthrough of your three reddest numbers. Delivered in 5 business days. (The sales-pipeline read needs your bid log — that’s the Session.)
Get my Readout — $750 →The Profit-Leak Session
$2,500
Ninety minutes live with RJ and your key people: every leak dollarized and assigned an owner, a break-even one-pager, and a 90-day fix sequence. Your $750 Readout credits toward it.
Book my Session — $2,500 →Not sure yet? Start with the free scan — it shows you where the cracks are; the Readout reveals the dollars it hides.
Deeper engagements — a 90-day turnaround installation and a full founder-led forensic — are taken on by application, a few per year.
Run my free scan →Straight answers
›Is my data safe?
The free scan's math runs in your browser — your numbers never leave your device, and there's no account. If you ask us to contact you, we get your contact info and which pillars read red or yellow — never your figures. The paid Readout is different by design: you share your QuickBooks so we can run it on your real books, handled confidentially under the Engagement Terms.
›What do I need to run the free scan?
Two PDF exports from QuickBooks — your Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet, about 60 seconds each — or just type in seven numbers off your P&L. A few minutes total; the scan itself runs in seconds.
›What if my books are messy?
The scan reads whatever you give it and says plainly what it couldn't assess — nothing is scored on guesses. Messy books usually show up as a couple of honestly-labeled "not assessed" pillars, which is itself worth knowing. And if the export won't cooperate, leave a name and number on the scan page and we'll run it with you on a 15-minute screen share.
›My CPA already looks at my books.
Your CPA's job is taxes and compliance — looking backward. This checks forward-looking failure patterns: cash vs. profit divergence, job-cost blindness, runway. The founder's company looked healthy on every standard report — and still ended in Chapter 7. If your CPA already hands you job-level margins and a cash-conversion read monthly, the scan will come back green — it costs you ten minutes to know.
›What exactly does the $750 buy?
The same diagnostic, run on your actual QuickBooks instead of typed-in numbers: every dollar figure the free scan withholds, your top three leaks ranked, and a 15-minute recorded video walking your three reddest numbers — delivered within 5 business days of receiving your books. And if your free scan came back green, don't buy it. We'll tell you that ourselves.
›What happens after I pay?
Within one business day, info@thesurefoundation.co emails you two easy ways to share your books — a QuickBooks accountant invite or the two PDF exports. Your Readout lands within 5 business days of receiving them. Every figure in it is an estimate based on the data you provide, to take to your own licensed advisors before acting.