For $1M–$5M dev shops. In 30 days we fix how your work is agreed, priced and sold, so more of your revenue becomes profit and less of the business depends on you. It takes about ten hours of your time.
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Source: Promethean Research, State of Digital Services 2026 (119 agency leaders surveyed). Development agencies reported an average net margin of 11%. Agencies that reduced their services reported an average net margin of 30%. These are separate groups in the survey, not a before and after. Illustrative only, not a forecast for your business.
Payroll is covered. Revenue is up. You’ve hired good people. But profit hasn’t kept pace, and every hard decision still lands on your desk. Here’s what that usually looks like.
A client asks for one change. It turns into a database migration. You say yes to protect the launch date, and the extra work never makes it onto an invoice.
Your rates are built on salaries. They leave out benefits, software, AI tools and the hours nobody bills. So every project earns less than you think.
You review the code, answer client messages and join sales calls to explain the tech. Take a week off and you spend the next two catching up.
Their own teams move faster with AI tools, so hourly rates are harder to defend. Your senior people still cost what they cost.
Your team is good and so is the work. The business simply grew faster than the systems underneath it. That’s common at your size, and it can be fixed.
Same team and the same good work. Now with systems behind it.
You already design software for a living. The Refactor puts that same skill to work on your company. You stop being the person everything depends on. You become the person who designed how it runs.
Three phases. Ben leads every one. You keep running the business while it happens.
Your master agreement goes online and gets signed once. After that, every project starts with a short two-page scope that your team and your clients will actually read. When a client asks for more, your PM sends a change order without you.
MVG Console connects to your time tracking and shows the profit on every project, based on what your people really cost. Clear decision rules let your leads handle the everyday calls, so fewer things wait for you.
We look at your past projects and find the specialty you’ve already proven. Then we build your positioning, a page that screens prospects and a short video that shows your expertise before the first call.
About ten hours of your time across the 30 days. Everything we build is assigned to you in writing, so it’s yours to keep.
Your diagnostic answers that, not a sales call. We’d rather tell you it’s not a fit than sell you something that won’t move your numbers.
You’re between $1M and $5M. Revenue is growing but profit isn’t keeping up. Most decisions still need you.
Your margins are already strong, the business runs without you and you want it to be worth more, whether you sell or not.
Your systems are strong and you can keep them that way without outside help. MVG Console is available on its own, and we’ll tell you so.
Ben leads every engagement himself, so only a few run each quarter.
Take the Dev Agency Diagnostic. You’ll see how your margin compares, how much depends on you and which engagement fits, if either does.
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