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Watching spend against estimate while there is still time to act on it, rather than reading the bad news at completion.
Set timesheet timing from the decision the data must support. Use this freshness policy to keep staffing, margin, billing, and estimates current.
Status meetings track progress. Margin reviews track money. Five numbers per live project, a threshold against each, and a named owner before anyone leaves.
The money is lost in the ninety seconds between a client asking for a change and a trade starting it. Here is the pause, price and confirm sequence that closes it.
Quotes go over budget because they were priced from memory. The fix is a diagnostic: ten finished jobs, quoted against actual, and the pattern that survives all ten.
A fixed price SOW gives you one number and no invoice line to check yourself against. Convert it into a cost ledger, then reconcile actuals every week.
A fixed-price job goes wrong in week three, not at the final account. These are the leading indicators that show it, and the weekly checks that surface them.