Case Studies · 2 min read

Real HVAC shops. Real numbers.

Every diagnostic below was run by a working contractor, not a sales team. Names and locations are anonymized; the percentages are exact.

Gross margin

A residential shop was stuck at 38% gross margin for three years despite growing revenue every season. After running the Bleedwise diagnostic and repricing their service agreements, the numbers shifted fast.

38%51%6 months

Gross margin climbed 13 points without adding a single truck — the fix was in the pricing structure, not the workload.

Labor cost

Labor burden was running 44% of revenue and the owner assumed callbacks were the culprit. Bleedwise identified overtime scheduling as the real driver — not rework.

44%34%4 months

Rescheduling dispatch windows cut labor burden by 10 points — a fix that took a week to implement once the root cause was clear.

Overhead

$280K overhead on $1.1M revenue — the owner knew it was high but couldn’t identify where. Bleedwise flagged duplicated vendor contracts and unused software subscriptions that had been renewing silently for two years.

$280K$194K1 quarter

$86K in overhead removed in one quarter — no layoffs, no service cuts, just cancellations the owner didn’t know to look for.

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What the diagnostic found

— gross margin from 38% to 51% in 6 months

— labor burden from 44% to 34% in 4 months

— overhead from $280K to $194K in one quarter

— all from a single CSV upload, no consultant required