Galeo Strategy

Manufacturing & Fabrication

Machine Shops.

You're full, but you're not sure you're profitable.

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Focus

Machine Shops

Built For

$250K–$2.5M revenue

Engagement

The Growth Roadmap

Sound Familiar?

“Job costing in a machine shop is brutal to get right — setup time, machine hours, scrap, rework. Most shop owners are pricing off gut feel and last year's numbers, not real job-level margin. We rebuild your true cost per job so you know which work to chase and which to walk away from.”

You quote based on feel and last year's rates, not this year's real machine and labor cost.

Some jobs feel profitable because they're big, but you've never modeled setup time, scrap, and machine hours against the price.

Utilization looks fine on the schedule board, but you don't actually know your cost per machine hour.

You're the one quoting every job. If you step back, the pricing knowledge goes with you.

Where the Money Usually Hides

What we investigate in machine shops.

These are the areas we dig into, not a promise of what we'll find in yours.

True cost per job: setup time, machine hours, materials, and scrap
Quoting discipline: where estimates systematically run under real cost
Machine utilization and true cost per machine hour
Scrap and rework: how much margin they're actually consuming
Customer and job-type profitability: which work to chase, which to walk away from
Labor cost per job vs. billed rate

How the Growth Roadmap Works for Machine Shops

The Growth Roadmap diagnoses your real machine shops numbers, prioritizes the levers above by dollar impact, and gives you a 12-month plan. Then we work alongside you to execute it.

See how the Growth Roadmap works
Close-up of a metal workpiece being turned on a lathe

What You Get

What you walk away with

A clear picture of your real numbers

How your business actually makes and loses money, often laid out plainly for the first time.

A dollar-sized list of levers

Exactly what to fix, ranked by impact, with the money attached to each one.

A 12-month plan you can run

Delivered as a document and walked through live.

Questions

Common questions

Yes. We make it low-friction and confidential, and messy or cash-basis books are normal. Cleaning them up is part of the work.

That's the usual starting point. Rebuilding them into something you can trust is the second step.

An in-depth interview up front, then short scheduled check-ins. Early wins are chosen to buy your time back fast.

Often the software captures the data, but nobody's turned it into a clear picture of margin by job, machine, or customer. If your system is already giving you that, we'll tell you honestly in the first call.

Let's find the profit your machine shops business is already making.

A short call to see if we can help. No pressure, no jargon.

Discovery call