Protect your margin before the quote goes out.
Price the work briefs leave out, keep delivery on track, and quote smarter every time.
The commercial stakes
Stop margin leakage before the work begins.
Client briefs rarely account for client management, extra revision rounds or handover. When those hours aren't priced or tracked, they quietly erode profitability.
Catching just one under-scoped project can cover the cost of protecting every quote after it.
£2,500,000
Estimated unrecovered margin risk each year
-£112,500
Estimate at 4.5% of fee revenue, not a research benchmark. Your figure depends on how you price and track work.
Price the work the brief leaves out.
- Account for role effort, direct costs, overheads and risk allowances before setting the fee.
- See the estimated expected margin before the proposal is sent.
- Turn guesswork into an agreed, defensible commercial baseline.
Catch margin drift while you can act.
- Timesheets reviewed weeks later don't protect live jobs.
- Recorded hours and remaining effort stay connected to the quoted allowance.
- See when a role is running out of hours early enough to re-scope or price the added work.
Let the last job shape the next quote.
- Compare planned margin directly against the delivered result.
- See which clients, services or roles consistently beat or miss their estimates.
- Review that evidence when you quote similar work next time.
The quiet decision layer behind every commercial moment.
Intelligence isn't a fourth module. It runs across Quotes, Delivery and Insights & Reports, turning what you've quoted, delivered and learned into prompts at the moment they matter. It suggests. You decide.
At quote stage
A pre-send margin check flags a quote below your target and shows the moves you could review.
During delivery
Forecast margin and role feedback show where effort is running ahead of the plan.
After the work
Margin gap diagnosis isolates where quoted hours and delivered reality differed.
Who it's for
Built for how your firm sells work.
A continuous system beats fragmented spreadsheets. See how MarginNudge closes the gaps in your kind of project.
Marketing & digital agencies
Retainers and campaigns where revisions and reporting creep past the fee.
See how it fitsDesign & branding agencies
Creative rounds and handover that briefs rarely price in.
See how it fitsSoftware development agencies
Estimates that drift as requirements change mid-build.
See how it fitsIT services & MSPs
Project work that blurs into support hours nobody priced.
See how it fitsManagement & business consultancies
Senior time and scope that stretch beyond the agreed engagement.
See how it fits
Why MarginNudge exists
Built from real commercial realities, not SaaS theory.
The idea grew out of conversations with my brother, a CFO involved in three successful private equity exits. The pattern he described was simple: service businesses rarely lose margin in one big mistake. They lose it quietly, in the work nobody priced.
Read the full storyTransparent, value-backed investment
Priced to pay for itself on your first protected quote.
Whether you run a focused 5-person studio or a consultancy of 200+ specialists, there's a plan sized for your team, billed monthly or annually. Start a trial and test MarginNudge on a live client brief before you commit.
- One protected quote can cover the cost
- Plans that grow as your team grows
- Try Quotes, Delivery and Insights & Reports
Start protecting your margin on your next quote.
Start with a real project, test it with real numbers and see what your fee leaves behind.
Start your 14-day trial