Job-cost truth
Reconcile actuals, commitments, and cost-to-complete so leadership sees the likely finish—not last month’s picture.
Central Florida project operations
Find the margin and cash leaks hiding in your projects.
VenAce helps growing construction, A&E, and other project-driven service firms gain control of job costs, change orders, forecasts, and collections— before small gaps become expensive surprises.
One focused starting point
A fixed-scope, 10-business-day Project Margin & Cash Diagnostic—built to produce decisions, owners, and a practical 90-day plan.
10Business days
from clean data receipt
from clean data receipt
6Margin and cash
control areas tested
control areas tested
90Day prioritized
action plan
action plan
Flagship offer
Project Margin &
Cash Diagnostic.
A bounded assessment for leaders who need a reliable operating view before adding software, headcount, or another layer of reporting.
Check fit in 20 minutesFounding-client pilot$2,500
Fixed scope · credited toward an implementation started within 30 days
What is included
- Estimate-at-completion and cost-to-complete review
- Change-order, scope, and unbilled-work control check
- Forecast margin, receivables, and 13-week cash review
- Capacity and backlog risk scan
- Executive risk heatmap and prioritized 90-day action plan
- 60-minute findings readout with accountable next steps
Scope assumes existing data, up to three active projects or one business unit, and two stakeholder interviews. Remediation, bookkeeping, audit, tax, legal, and system implementation are separate.
What we test
Controls that protect project economics.
The diagnostic concentrates on the handoffs where project-driven firms most often lose visibility, time, margin, or cash.
Change-order control
Separate approved and pending scope, quantify at-risk cost, and assign every open item to one owner and date.
Margin & cash visibility
Connect forecast margin, billing milestones, receivables, backlog, and near-term cash to a repeatable weekly review.
Designed for fit
Useful when growth has outpaced the operating view.
Strong fit
- Construction, A&E, and project-driven service firms
- Leaders seeing margin surprises, aging change orders, or slow collections
- Teams with usable project and financial data but inconsistent controls
- Owners ready to assign decisions and actions
Not the right starting point
- Emergency turnaround or insolvency work
- Bookkeeping, tax, legal, assurance, or audit opinions
- Software selection without a defined operating problem
- Open-ended consulting without an accountable sponsor
Evidence before promises
Enterprise discipline.
Measured outcomes.
Selected, anonymized results achieved by VenAce principals in prior enterprise roles. They show relevant operating experience, not guaranteed future client results.
Revenue leakage recovered
Manual analysis and corrective action recovered material enterprise revenue that had become unbillable.
Manual FP&A effort reduced
A redesigned planning and analysis process removed repetitive work while reinforcing financial controls.
Audit cycle compressed
A disciplined review process reduced a recurring audit cycle from 35 days to 16 days in a prior role.
The principals
Built by operators,
not spectators.
VenAce combines financial rigor, operating discipline, and practical implementation experience across complex organizations.
Ivan Carrasquillo
Finance transformation & operational excellence
MBA, PMP and PMI-ACP with enterprise experience spanning program financial control, Six Sigma, FP&A, technology transformation, healthcare and public-sector operations.
Joe Calcagno
Enterprise FP&A & financial systems
Finance leader with experience across controllership, financial systems, reporting and enterprise FP&A in healthcare, insurance and global media and entertainment.
How it works
From uncertainty
to owned action.
The diagnostic is deliberately short and fixed-scope. It creates an operating baseline without forcing a large transformation commitment.
Align
Confirm the business question, select up to three active projects, and agree on the data needed.
Diagnose
Test the six margin-and-cash controls, quantify material gaps, and validate findings with the team.
Act
Deliver a ranked 90-day plan with owners, measures, and the first decisions leadership should make.
Start before the call
Run the weekly control check yourself.
Use the free one-page scorecard to identify red flags in EAC, change orders, margin, receivables, capacity, and action ownership.
Start with one project
Find the first control gap
before it compounds.
Bring one recurring margin or cash concern. We will use a 20-minute fit call to determine whether the diagnostic is the right next step.
Schedule a fit call