From working harder to engineered excellence.

Growth hits a ceiling. Working harder stops working. The FiQuant Framework gives leadership teams a clear, data-driven path through it, powered by 150 forensic metrics built for professional services.

A methodology, not a service.

Most advisory starts with a conversation and ends with a report. Ours starts with a diagnostic framework refined across dozens of professional services firms over 18 years.

We treat your firm as a unified system: how revenue is generated, how value is priced, how capacity is deployed, how effort converts to cash, and how relationships compound over time.

This is financial engineering, purpose-built for the way professional services firms actually operate.

Proprietary Framework

The FiQuant Framework

Five interdependent pillars. 150 purpose-built metrics. Benchmarked against Australian professional services standards. This is the diagnostic engine behind every engagement.

Pillar 01

Revenue Efficiency

How efficiently does your firm convert demand into revenue and cash?

Revenue quality matters more than revenue size. We examine concentration risk, sales efficiency, and cash conversion to determine whether your growth is healthy or just hard work in disguise.

Revenue Growth Recurring Revenue % Revenue per FTE Gross Margin % DSO (AR Days) Cash Conversion Cycle Client Concentration % +23 more

Pillar 02

Product & Pricing

Is your pricing capturing the value you actually deliver?

Pricing is the highest-leverage profit lever in professional services. A 1% improvement in pricing typically has 3-4x the impact of a 1% improvement in volume. We find the gap between expertise delivered and fees captured.

Rate Realisation % Contribution Margin % Write-offs % Pricing Power Index Scope Creep Hours % Fixed-Fee vs T&M Mix Value Leakage % +23 more

Pillar 03

Productivity

Is your team's capacity converting into high-value output?

Productivity determines whether you can scale without burning out your leaders. We go beyond timesheets to measure true output, identifying where intellectual capital is being spent on low-value activity.

Billable Utilisation % Capacity Load % Revenue per Worked Hour Leverage Ratio On-time Delivery % Partner Delivery Load % +24 more

Pillar 04

Realisation

How much of your effort actually becomes collected cash?

This is where profit disappears silently: scope creep, slow billing, weak collections. We track the full journey from work done to cash cleared, pinpointing exactly where your margin evaporates.

Hours Realisation % Value Realisation % WIP Balance & Days Collection Rate % Bad Debt % Invoice Cycle Time +24 more

Pillar 05

Retention

Are you keeping the clients and talent that drive long-term firm value?

Retention compounds. Acquiring a new client costs 5-7x more than keeping one. We evaluate the leakage in your foundation to see whether you are building an enduring asset or running on a treadmill.

Client Retention Rate % Net Revenue Retention Expansion Rate % NPS Score Employee Retention % Referral Lead Share % +24 more

Why "just one fix" never works.

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Pricing → Retention

Under-pricing forces you to under-invest in your team. You cannot fix retention if your pricing won't fund the talent you need.

Productivity → Realisation

Low-margin work consumes capacity that should generate cash. Poor productivity makes realisation problems inevitable.

Revenue → Pricing

Growing revenue by discounting creates a compounding problem. Every client won at a lower rate pulls down the entire pricing architecture.

Retention → Productivity

High turnover destroys productivity through constant onboarding. Your best people leave because they are overloaded covering the gaps.

We evaluate all five pillars together so you can stop wasting energy on symptoms and address the primary cause.

Ready to engineer a more profitable firm?

Every engagement begins with the Profit Triage: a 60-minute conversation that gives your leadership team immediate clarity on your firm's most direct path to improved performance.

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Warning: this process replaces "hope" with "data." You may find that your "biggest problem" wasn't the problem at all.