Small moves compound into big margin.
The 5·5·5 Combo is how we think about every engagement: three modest moves on three different levers at the same time. 5% more revenue. 5% less COGS. 5% leaner OpEx. Each one alone is a nice quarter. Stacked together, they can nearly double the profit of a mid-market business without adding headcount.
One framework. Three numbers. Measured every month.
We build against each lever deliberately, then instrument the baseline so we can see what moved and by how much.
Run the 5·5·5 on your business.
Enter your current gross revenue, COGS, and operating expenses. Then use the sliders to model a 5% lift in sales, a 5% reduction in COGS, and a 5% reduction in OpEx (or any mix you want). Profit recalculates live.
Four principles behind the combo.
These are the reasons we organize every engagement around these three numbers.
Three levers, not one
Most automation pitches go after a single metric: cycle time, conversion, headcount. That's fine, but it leaves margin on the table. The combo pushes revenue, COGS, and OpEx at the same time because the same discovery phase surfaces candidates in all three.
Modest targets on purpose
5% is deliberately unglamorous. We'd rather be right about three 5% moves than wishful about one 30% moonshot. A 5% move on a real workflow, instrumented with a before-and-after read, is a number the CFO can trust.
Compounding is the point
Any one lever alone is a rounding error in a quarterly review. All three together, on a business with typical margins, can nearly double net profit — without a hire, an acquisition, or a pricing change. That's what the calculator above is showing.
Measured, not promised
We don't claim the combo on day one. We scope against it. Every engagement gets a baseline in the Scorecard and a monthly read during the build and run phases. If a lever isn't moving, we tell you, and we fix the project scope, not the spreadsheet.
A Scorecard is how we find out where your combo actually lives.
The calculator above shows the math. The paid AI Readiness Scorecard shows whether the math is available in your operation, which automations would move each lever, and what Phase 1 looks like.