BIDSOLID Run your business on one number
Get it — $199

Contractor Business Dashboard · flagship

Busy isn't the same as profitable.

Six-figure revenue and almost nothing left at the end of the year is the most common story in remodeling. This rolls every job and all your overhead into one honest number — your net margin — plus your break-even and how much cushion you've actually got.

One-time purchase · Excel / Google Sheets · no subscription

BUSINESS READOUTlive · sample year
Gross margin28.6%
Net profit$16,200
Break-even revenue$229,429
Net margin
the one number
5.7%

One clean figure — revenue minus direct cost minus overhead. No stacked "savings."

6.3%Avg remodeler net margin

Know your number, or you're flying blind.

The average remodeler keeps about six cents of net profit on the revenue dollar. Some keep more; plenty keep nothing, or run at a loss without realizing it — because they track jobs, or bank balance, but never the one number that says whether the business works. This dashboard puts that number in front of you, next to your break-even and the average.

Source: NAHB Remodelers' Cost of Doing Business Study, 2026 edition (FY2024 data).

What it does

The whole business, on one screen.

01

Rolls up every job

One row per job — revenue and direct cost, straight off your bids and job costing — totals into your company revenue, direct cost, and gross profit. No re-keying, no guesswork.

02

Accounts for your overhead

Office, vehicles, insurance, your own pay, software, marketing — the costs no single job carries. The dashboard subtracts them to get to what you actually keep.

03

Reconciles to one net-margin number

Revenue minus direct cost minus overhead equals net profit. One figure, honestly built — the number that tells you whether the business is working, not just whether you're busy.

04

Shows your break-even and margin of safety

The revenue you must bill just to cover overhead, and how far revenue could fall before you cross back into a loss. Know your floor before you get near it.

05

Puts you next to the average

Your net and gross margins sit right beside the remodeler benchmarks, so you know instantly whether you're ahead, behind, or right at the line — and by how much.

Built honestly

One number, not stacked savings

The math has to reconcile.

Some tools will tell you that you "saved" 4 points here and "recovered" 3 there and add them into a fantasy total. This one won't. It's a clean profit-and-loss: your bids set each job's revenue and cost, job costing keeps those costs honest, change orders adjust a job's revenue — and it all resolves to a single net-margin figure. Nothing double-counts.

The whole system: this is the top of the BidSolid stack. The estimator, job-costing tracker, and change-order tool feed the numbers; the dashboard is where they come together into the one number that matters.

What's inside

Five tabs. Opens and works.

Real spreadsheet, real formulas, Excel or Google Sheets. Ships pre-filled with a worked example; overwrite the yellow cells with your business.

Tab 01

Start Here

A one-page guide and why one honest number beats a busy calendar.

Tab 02

Jobs

One row per job — revenue and direct cost roll up to the company total.

Tab 03

Overhead

Your indirect costs for the period, itemized.

Tab 04

Dashboard

Net margin, break-even, margin of safety, and the benchmark comparison.

Tab 05

Benchmarks

Sourced remodeler margin and overhead figures for context.

Pricing

The number a bookkeeper charges monthly to guess at.

You could pay someone hundreds a month to assemble a version of this after the fact. Or own the dashboard for $199, once, and see your real margin any time you open it — while the year is still in front of you.

$199 once  ·  the flagship  ·  no subscription
Contractor Business Dashboard
$199
One-time · lifetime file
  • Full five-tab Excel workbook
  • All jobs + overhead → one net-margin number
  • Break-even & margin-of-safety built in
  • Side-by-side remodeler benchmark comparison
  • Sourced business benchmarks
  • Works in Excel & Google Sheets
Get instant access — $199

Instant download · 14-day money-back guarantee · save 51% in the full bundle

Questions

Straight answers.

Do I need the other BidSolid tools to use this?

No. The dashboard works on its own — enter each job's revenue and cost and your overhead, and it does the rest. The estimator and job-costing tools just make those inputs easier and more accurate, since their numbers drop straight in.

Is this my accounting?

It's a management dashboard, not bookkeeping or tax prep. It shows your margins, break-even, and safety in plain terms so you can steer the business. It doesn't replace your accountant — it means you walk into that conversation already knowing your numbers.

What's "margin of safety"?

How far your revenue could fall before you drop below break-even and start losing money. A comfortable cushion means a slow month won't sink you; a thin one is a warning to watch your overhead.

Do I need special software?

No. Standard spreadsheet, opens in Excel or free in Google Sheets. No macros, nothing to install.

What if it's not for me?

14-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.