Built for the small business owner

We help your business grow.

A clear view of your numbers, simple tools with big-firm horsepower ready to use today, and a real person to help you act on them. No jargon, no runaround. We only win if you grow.

No login. No paywall. No email wall on the free tools.

M1 Operating Picture
Illustrative dashboard
Cash on hand
$47K
Thin cushion this month
Gross margin
16.1%
⚠ Tight on every job
Open pipeline
$486K
22 active leads
First tight week
Wk 7
⚠ $9K short
13-week cash flow
Week 7 runs tight
$0 Wk 7 W1 W7 W13
Running cash balance Dips below $0
Margin by job
target vs actual
Riverside Oak Ln Maple Cedar
On target Below
Pipeline by stage
22 leads
New 9 Quoted 7 Negotiating 4 Won 2
The problem

Most small businesses fly blind on the things that decide whether they make money.

You can grow on the top line and bleed on the bottom at the same time, and feel busy the whole way down. The owner finds out at year end, or at the bank. We make it visible, then we help you act on it.

Cash

Profit is an opinion about a period of time. Cash is a fact about Friday. Most owners cannot see the first week it gets tight until it already has.

Margin

Some jobs make money. Some quietly lose it. Without margin by job, you cannot tell which is which until the year is over and it is too late to fix.

Pipeline

Leads come in, then slip. A quote goes out, the customer goes quiet, no one follows up. Good work walks out the door unnoticed.

We turn the mystery into a picture you can read in five minutes a week, with the next moves already lined up. Boring. Unglamorous. It is the thing that keeps the doors open.

The first week cash gets tight, seen early
Illustrative
A rolling view of money in and out, so you can act before the squeeze, not after.
Week 7 · tightest point Now +13 weeks
Projected cash balance
What we do

We provide operational intelligence in an easy-to-understand platform that tracks your cash flow, margins, and leads, plus a 90-day growth plan.

One place the owner can actually read. Built inside the tools you already use, populated with your real numbers. Then a clear plan for what to do about what it shows.

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Cash flow

A simple view of the next stretch of weeks: what is coming in, what is going out, and the first week it gets tight, before it does.

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Margin by job

Estimated against actual on every job, so the ones quietly losing money show up in days, not at year end.

Lead pipeline

Every open lead by source, with age flags on the ones going cold, so good work stops slipping out the door.

+ 90-day plan

The platform shows you where the money is leaking. The plan tells you what to do about it, in the order that matters most, with clear targets we review at 30, 60, and 90 days. The numbers are not the point. The decisions they drive are.

Two ways to work with us

Pick the one that fits how you run.

Same standard either way. The difference is who runs the platform once it is built: you, or us alongside you.

Build it once

A one-time platform build. We build it, load it with your numbers, train your team, and hand you the keys.
  • Your custom platform: cash flow, margin by job, and lead pipeline, built to your business
  • Your real history loaded in, so it is useful from day one
  • A plain-language operating guide written for your business
  • Live training so you and your team can run it without us
  • 90-day targets we set together, plus a support window after handoff

Right for owners who have the bandwidth to run the platform themselves.

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Not sure which fits? Start with the free Money Review. We will tell you straight, and we will tell you if the answer is neither.

Free tools

Useful today. No strings.

No login · No paywall · No email wall

One quality tool a week, free to use right now, no strings. This week: the Margin Survival Calculator, the same margin math our clients run, because a clearer owner is a better owner whether or not they ever hire us.

Tool of the week

Margin Survival Calculator

Set your overhead once and it saves on your device. Then price any job to a true margin and see, in seconds, whether it keeps your doors open or quietly loses money. Free, no login.

Open the calculator

Prefer a spreadsheet?

Same tool, Excel version. Set your overhead once, then price every job to a healthy margin.

Watch: price a job so it keeps your doors open
Walkthrough
A short, plain-English walk through the Margin Survival template, start to finish.
Which jobs actually make money
Illustrative
Estimated margin against actual on every job, so the quiet losers show up in days, not at year end.
Riverside Oak Ln Maple Birch Cedar Pine
Estimated margin Actual, on target Actual, below estimate
Or just talk to us

Free 30-minute working session, no charge, no pitch.

If you'd like help getting your overhead, rates, and margins set up right, contact us at info@meridyanone.com.

Proof

What the work looks like when it lands.

The example below is illustrative. We are early, and we would rather show you the kind of turn we help create with honest, labeled numbers than dress up a claim we cannot stand behind.

Illustrative example. Fictional business and figures, shown to demonstrate the kind of result Meridyan One delivers.
Northridge Decks & Outdoor Living · Deck Contractor · ~$5.2M Revenue

A deck builder stopped flying blind, and the business grew.

Strong work, mystery numbers. The owner ran it by feel, like most good operators do. Here is the kind of turn we help create.

$148K
Cash recovered in 90 days by tightening collections
+4.6 pts
Gross margin lift across active jobs
31%
Of stale leads reopened and converted to booked work
For ten years I thought a busy schedule meant a healthy business. Turns out I was leaving real money on jobs I was proud of. Now I open the dashboard Monday morning and I know exactly where I stand.
Marcus Vance, Owner, Northridge Decks. Fictional owner and quote, created for this illustrative example.
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We measure our work one way: did the business grow.

Proudly serving owner-operated businesses across Houston, The Woodlands, Katy, Sugar Land, and the surrounding area.

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