"We're busy, but we're not making the money we should."
We'd pinpoint where the margin went: price recovery, product and customer mix, and costs you can trust. Then we'd size it in £.
Take the EBITDA Opportunity Scan
Manufacturing EBITDA
Finance, data & AI
Find the margin and scale already in your business.
We help UK manufacturers and growing businesses get more from what they already have: more EBITDA from six clear levers, and a finance function that partners the business. We size the opportunity in £, deliver it with your team, and prove every gain in the P&L.
Finance leader? Take the Finance Partner Check (about 5 minutes, no email needed).
EBITDA by lever
IllustrativeCost truth runs under every bar: costs everyone trusts.
Start where you are
Which sounds like you?
Most of our work starts at a moment, not a job title. Find yours and we'll show you where we'd begin.
"We've promised a plan, and now we need it delivered."
We'd turn the plan into a costed roadmap the board signs, then run it in 90-day sprints with finance proving each gain.
See the PIP method"I've got 100 days to show what I'm changing."
A 2–4 week Pinpoint gives you a sized, prioritised plan early in your first 100 days, with the numbers to back it.
How Pinpoint works"We spent a fortune on the ERP, and we still run on Excel."
We'd get more from the systems you already own: data foundations, one version of the truth, and automation where it pays.
Take the Finance Partner Check"We want clean numbers and a better EBITDA before buyers look."
We'd build cost truth and a KPI pack buyers can rely on, and bank margin gains while there's still time to show them.
Manufacturing EBITDA"We've doubled in size, and our MI hasn't kept up."
We'd set the right KPIs at the right cadence, and build forecasting that grows with you. Then we'd turn to the margin levers.
Finance, data & AI"Everyone agrees what needs to change. We want it moving."
We bring a playbook, a weekly cadence and senior support, plus an independent view to keep momentum while your team runs the day job.
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What we do
Two ways we help. Take one or both.
Take one or both. Management information is where they meet.
More EBITDA from six levers.
Six levers, worked in order of value. We reach EBITDA through numbers, planning and systems.
- Price. Pricing discipline and cost-inflation recovery.
- Commercial decisions. Mix, cost-to-serve, which business to take.
- Productivity. Throughput, OEE, labour and machine effectiveness.
- Management information. The right KPIs, at the right cadence.
- Timely delivery. OTIF, schedule adherence, lead time.
- High quality. Right-first-time, scrap, rework, returns.
Foundation: cost truth. Every lever sits on costs everyone trusts.
A finance function that partners the business.
Move finance from keeping the score to helping change it. We assume close and control basics are in place, or we fix them quickly.
Record-keeper
Gatekeeper
Advisor
Strategic Partner
- Data foundations and a single version of the truth
- Systems and ERP value, and automation
- Sensible AI, used where it earns its place
- FP&A and forecasting, including S&IOP (sales, inventory and operations planning)
- Business partnering that shapes decisions
The foundation
Cost truth: get your costs right and every decision gets easier.
You can't price well, choose the right mix or judge productivity on costs nobody trusts. Few firms talk about it. We start there.
What cost truth covers
- A costing methodology that fits how you really make things
- Standard costs and cost rolls kept up to date
- Overhead absorption that reflects where effort goes
- Variances that explain something and point to an action
The playbook
The PIP method: Pinpoint, Implement, Prosper.
One method, always in this order. You see the phase, the next milestone and the measures.
Pinpoint
Find the opportunity and size it in £: diagnostic, cost truth, and a costed roadmap the board signs.
Typically 2–4 weeksImplement
Follow the playbook with your team: 90-day sprints on the levers, plus the finance data, systems and AI that make it stick.
Weekly cadence against the roadmapProsper
Bank the gains: each one proven in the P&L by finance, held by a KPI pack, and handed to your team to run.
Signed off by your finance team
Why Pipmore
The one with the playbook.
One team across finance and operations
Most firms see half the business. Nick has worked both halves: Group FD inside a TransDigm manufacturer, and running financial systems through Deliveroo's hypergrowth. One diagnostic and one method across both.
Proved in the P&L
Every gain is checked by finance against the management accounts, not estimated on a slide.
Senior, founder-led
You work with the founder and hand-picked specialists, not a team of juniors. Fees are fixed per phase, with a contingent option.
Honest about fit
No ego. If we can't help, we'll say so and point you to someone who can. Your team gets the credit and keeps the playbook.
The room to grow
Where margin and time usually hide.
60% → 85%
Typical everyday OEE is about 60%. The measured world-class benchmark is 85%.
Source: Evocon, 50+ country OEE dataset; Nakajima's TPM work.
1 in 3
finance teams have senior staff losing up to half the week to manual data work.
Source: FERF/FEI survey of 116 senior finance executives, via CPA Practice Advisor, Oct 2026.
70%
Of ERP initiatives don't fully meet their original business goals. There's often value still to gain from the system you have.
Source: Gartner, 2025.
Founder
Nick Garner works where finance, technology and operations meet.
From PwC to Deliveroo to TransDigm, Nick has made finance, data and operations pull in the same direction. He's done it in consulting, in hypergrowth, on the manufacturing P&L and leading technology. Now he brings that playbook to businesses ready for their next stage of growth.
He has rebuilt cost accounting, priced major contracts and rolled out shop-floor KPIs that improved on-time delivery, inside the manufacturers themselves.
Nick leads both pillars personally, with trusted specialists where the work needs them.
Growth, by design.
Sharpen. Scale. Thrive.
Six minutes to an indicative £ range, or 30 minutes with Nick. Either way, you'll leave with a next step.