PROFIT ENGINEERED
Profitability often seeps through the gap between the "Shop Floor" and the "Boardroom"; we bridge that divide using our unique Neuvantage PROFIT-ABILITY Framework™ to identify hidden waste and our DAILY Certification™ to embed a culture of permanent efficiency as well as offering a whole range of support for your business. As Operational Profit Architects, we move beyond simply recording history to actively engineering your profitability.
Based in Northamptonshire, the UK's Motorsport Heartland, we are Chartered Management Accountants at heart but our passion is business improvement. We can provide the precise Co-Driver navigation needed to reach your strategic finish line—whether you require a complete offsite finance facility with compliance handled by our trusted partners, or targeted engineering of your pricing, cash flow or budgeting and forecasting we have your back. For our larger customers, even up to major PLCs, we dismantle the bottlenecks and eliminate the non-value-added tasks that stretch your teams and keep them from adding value, rebuilding processes to ensure your business is engineered for the race. We are a performance-driven investment that pays for itself.
The Starting Grid
Why your current setup is keeping you in the pit lane.
Traditional accountants are excellent at recording history, but driving a business using only "rear-view mirror" data is dangerous. By the time they spot a dip in margins, the month is already lost.
FAIL: Perfect records of a failing strategy.AI is an incredible asset. However, AI alone cannot walk the 'shop floor' to spot bottlenecks or navigate the complex culture and silos of a growing team, it also doesn't have the experience of a professional and can hallucinate, giving you incorrect information. Without this professional oversight, AI provides information, but zero accountability.
FAIL: Data without physical validation.We combine CIMA financial rigour with Lean Six Sigma execution. As CIMA regulated professionals, we bridge the gap between operations and finance to ensure strategy translates into cash. When we deploy our Neuvantage PROFIT-ABILITY Framework™, we promise to identify a minimum 3:1 return on our fee.
WIN: Engineered Profit. Real Cash.Precision at Every Scale
Problem: You have scaled past the point where "gut feel" works. You are brilliant at your craft but feel overwhelmed by admin and the anxiety that a lack of financial grip will sink the ship.
Solution: We can act as your Co-Driver. We deploy our expertise and systems to secure your margins and help you get to your strategic finish line.
- Flexible Support: From targeted pricing engines to Fractional CFO leadership.
- Cash Flow: Dynamic cash flow models that forecast issues months in advance.
- Strategic Pricing: Robust pricing frameworks and strategies that account for every ounce of overhead and maximise your return.
- One-Stop Shop: Seamless access to full compliance, tax, and payroll through our trusted CIMA regulated partners.
- Neuvantage PROFIT-ABILITY Framework™: Data-driven process improvement that transforms non-value-added activities into bottom-line results.
Problem: Scale has created silos and manual processes. Your teams are wasting much of their time fixing data errors and creating numerous spreadsheets and spend little time actually analysing profit.
Solution: We deploy our expertise and systems to work alongside your busy teams to identify the systemic waste between departments and bridge the gap between the 'shop floor' and the 'boardroom' to rebuild processes and create greater efficiency and effectiveness for your teams.
- Flexible Support: From month end automation for your finance teams to process mapping and improvement in your warehouse.
- Data-driven waste removal: Using the Neuvantage PROFIT-ABILITY Framework™ Framework.
- Process Engineering: Unlocking capacity in logistics, warehousing, and production.
- The DAILY™ Certification: An active learning workshop on continuous improvement with a 30 challenge changing mindsets to protect your bottom line.
The "Operational Waste Tax"
Every business pays a tax that never appears as a line on a P&L. It is the cost of daily friction—manual entry, idle staff, and "storing air". Because it’s invisible, most Leaders are unaware of it or ignore it. But when you calculate the extra sales required just to cover this waste, the numbers can be terrifying. Take a look at our free calculator using your business as an example.
Select your industry to see common examples of waste:Neuvantage PROFIT-ABILITY Framework™
Why It's Needed
Most businesses aquire an ever growing operational waste that causes them to leak profits. Revenue is vanity if your engine is burning cash on every trip; for example, if your operational waste is £50,000 and your margin is 10%, you are forced to generate £500,000 in new sales just to maintain your current position!!! We stop you from chasing sales to cover poor processes and errors and help you retain your well earnt profits. Don't be busy fools!
How It Works
We don't just write reports; we deploy our diagnostic and execution framework to quantify and eliminate inefficiency, ineffectivness and wastage.
We scan your operations for the six categories of operational waste:
- Process: Identifying inefficient or redundant workflows.
- Resource: Uncovering poor allocation of talent, tools and assets.
- Output-Errors: Calculating the cost of scrap, rework, returns and rejected invoices.
- Flow-Restrictions: Isolating bottlenecks and non-value-add steps in processes and approvals.
- Inventory: Releasing cash tied up in excess stock, storage (physical or cloud) and obsolescence.
- Transport: Cutting wasteful movement of physical goods, digital data and people.
Once waste is validated, we guide its removal through a precise execution plan:
- Analyse: Confirming the root cause and validating with data, verifying the ROI.
- Build: Designing the bespoke operational "fix" for your environment, brining your teams on the journey.
- Inspire: Securing whole team buy-in through a "Culture First" approach.
- Line-Up: Staging all necessary technology and resources.
- Implement: Precision deployment to minimise operational disruption.
- Track: Monitoring KPIs to capture value in real-time.
- Yield: Documenting and signing off on the achieved return on your investment.
What Is It
The Neuvantage PROFIT-ABILITY Framework™ is our proprietary framework designed to identify and eliminate waste in your business operations. We don't just find inefficiency; we calculate the 'Operational Waste Tax' and promise to find a 3:1 ROI.
The DAILY™ Certification
Why It's Needed
The greatest risk to any operational improvement is the "drift" that happens once the external contractor leaves. Efficiency fails when it depends on a single person; to last, it must be hard-coded into your company culture.
How It Works
We don't just lecture; we embed the "Architect Mindset" into your team. We train your staff to view every task and bottleneck through our unique DAILY™ filter:
- Delegate (Ownership): Moving leaders from task-mastering to outcome-managing.
- Automate (Digital Precision): Enforcing the "Three-Strike Rule" for manual tasks.
- Innovate (Process Improvement): Declaring war on "the way we’ve always done it".
- Leverage (Resource Mastery): Maximising internal talent and assets.
- Yield (Task Elimination): Stopping uneccesary tasks and steps.
What It Is
This is an active learning module that includes looking into your teamsactual processes and giving them a 30-day DAILY Certification™ Challenge. It validates your team as certified internal champions, ensuring they are engineered to protect your bottom line long-term.
Our Complete Service Suite
Cash is the vital fuel that powers your growth, yet many businesses drive without a gauge. We install a dynamic cashflow forecast that connects your operational reality directly to your banking.
A goal without a plan is just a wish. While your cash flow model acts as the fuel gauge, the Budget is your Route Map, transforming abstract financial targets into a precise, turn-by-turn Operational Navigation System. We can supply from a spreadsheet budget to fully advanced digital dashboard containing key perfomrance indicators bespoke to your business.
Volume is vanity; profit is sanity. We treat your pricing as your business's Fuel Efficiency (MPG), replacing "gut-feel" quotes with a strategic Bespoke Pricing Engine engineered to account for every ounce of operational effort, overhead, and risk.
Most businesses lose momentum to systemic friction, effectively paying an "Operational Waste Tax". We use the Neuvantage PROFIT-ABILITY Framework™ to bridge the gap between the shop floor and the boardroom, scanning your operations for the six universal categories of waste.
The greatest risk to any improvement is "operational drift". To ensure efficiency lasts, it must be hard-coded into your company culture. We use the DAILY Certification™ to transfer the "Architect Mindset" directly to your team.
We provide high-level leadership in a Fractional Finance Director capacity, embedding ourselves within your business to provide ongoing strategic guidance. This "Co-Driver" service is ideal for businesses that require executive-level financial oversight without the commitment of a full-time hire.
Common Questions
Business Survival & Strategy
This is the classic "Profit vs. Cash" trap. Profit is your destination (accounting theory), but Cash is the fuel in the tank (reality). A business can be profitable on paper but stall because cash is tied up in stock, late invoices, or WIP. We install a Dynamic Liquidity Model to act as your fuel gauge, predicting these gaps months in advance so you can steer around them.
Raising prices is not the only answer. You must first eliminate the "Operational Waste Tax" you are currently paying. By removing non-value-added activities (waste) from your processes, you reduce your cost base, which protects your margin without needing to pass every penny of inflation onto your customer.
You cannot win a "race to the bottom" on price alone. You win on efficiency and reliability. Our PROFIT-ABILITY Framework™ ensures your operations are leaner and faster than your competitors. When you stop paying for waste (errors, delays, rework), you can afford to be competitive on price while still making a healthier profit than they do.
AI & The Future
AI is a powerful tool (the "Electric Bike"), but it needs a rider. AI can process data, but it cannot walk a factory floor to see physical bottlenecks, nor can it navigate the complex politics of a human team. Without a regulated professional (CIMA) to verify the data, AI provides information but zero accountability. We use AI to go faster, but we provide the steering.
This is "Operational Drift," and it is the enemy of efficiency. We solve this with our DAILY Certification™. We don't just fix a process and leave; we train your team to adopt the "Architect Mindset," certifying them as internal champions of efficiency. We embed the change into your culture so it sticks long after we have left.
Roles & Responsibilities
A traditional accountant records history—telling you what happened last month. An Operational Profit Architect engineers the future. We combine CIMA financial rigour with Lean Six Sigma operational expertise. We don’t just report the numbers; we physically go to the "shop floor" to fix the processes that are causing the bad numbers in the first place.
A bookkeeper keeps you compliant; a Finance Director keeps you profitable. However, a full-time FD can cost £80k+. Our "Co-Driver" Retainer gives you the strategic firepower of a Fractional FD—budgeting, forecasting, and board-level strategy—for a fraction of the cost, ensuring you have the high-level guidance without the full-time salary overhead.
Absolutely not. We do not replace your team; we empower them. Many internal finance leads are overwhelmed by data entry and lack the time for strategic analysis. We act as their support, automating their manual tasks and giving them the tools (like our KPI Dashboards) to become more effective. We are the "Electric Bike" upgrade to their existing effort.
Neuvantage Services
Every business pays a hidden "tax" in the form of inefficiency—rework, idle staff, double handling, and storage of obsolete stock. Because it doesn't appear on a P&L, it is often ignored. We calculate the Sales Equivalent of this waste. For example, losing £10k to errors at a 10% margin forces you to find £100k in new sales just to stand still. We eliminate the tax so you keep the profit.
Yes. We operate with the certainty of a guaranteed return, not the hope of one. When we engage in our full PROFIT-ABILITY Framework™ to identify and remove waste, we target a minimum 3:1 Return on Investment (ROI) on our fee. We cost money, but we pay for ourselves.
Absolutely. We act as a One-Stop Shop for growing agencies and SMEs. Through our trusted partners, we can handle your compliance, payroll, and tax, while we focus on engineering your growth. This gives you an "offsite finance facility" that scales with you, removing the compliance headache so you can focus on winning new business.
Yes. Neuvantage provides financial strategy services specifically for the Northamptonshire region. We serve the "Motorsport Valley" (Silverstone), Logistics Hubs (Daventry/DIRFT), and Service businesses in Wellingborough, Corby, and Kettering.
