Cost and margin · Enterprise plan

From "what it earned" to "what we kept"

Revenue is half the calculation. The other half is what those hours cost the agency.

With each person's hourly cost recorded, the system works out the real cost of every project and the margin that's left — in reais and as a percentage.

Cost is the most sensitive data in the system

Hourly cost is salary in the open, and it's treated as such: it has its own permission, separate from everything else. Those without it don't see it — not on screen, not in reports, not in exports. And every change to a cost is recorded.

History is stored too

Just like the billing rate, the cost in force is stored on each logged hour. A pay rise doesn't rewrite the margin of previous months.

No cost means no margin figure

If someone on the team has no cost recorded yet, the screen does not invent one: it flags the project as missing cost data instead of showing a margin that would look excellent precisely because data is missing. A wrong number presented with confidence is worse than a missing one.

The loss-making projects filter

One click leaves only the projects with a negative margin on screen, sorted by the size of the hole. It's the view that changes the renewal conversation.

The calculations you get

  • Project cost

    sum of hours × each person's hourly cost

    What that project actually cost in team time.

  • Gross margin

    revenue − cost

    What was left, in currency.

  • Margin percentage

    margin ÷ revenue

    What was left as a percentage, so projects of different sizes can be compared.

  • Loss-making project

    margin below zero

    The project that consumed more than it brought in.

An example in round numbers
Project revenue
R$ 50,000
Team cost
R$ 44,000
Margin12%

The project didn't lose money — but it probably didn't pay for the overhead either.

In practice this means

  • Hourly cost recorded per person, behind a dedicated permission
  • Real cost of every project, summing each person's time
  • Margin in currency and as a percentage
  • List of projects with a negative margin
  • Projects missing cost data are flagged as such instead of showing a false margin
  • A record of who changed whose cost

What this calculation doesn't include

  • Payroll charges and taxes
  • Indirect cost and allocation of fixed overhead

See it running on your own operation

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