I started Taxtful because contractors were paying for accounts nobody acted on.

The short version

I spent years in practice watching the same thing happen to construction clients over and over. They'd get a set of accounts nine months after year-end, a corporation tax bill they weren't expecting, and a phone call once a year. In between, they were running a £3m business on a bank balance and a gut feeling.

It wasn't that the accountants were bad. It was that construction was one client type among forty, and nobody had time to learn what an application for payment was, or why the retention ledger mattered more than the aged debtors. So the numbers were technically right and practically useless.

Taxtful started with a simple rule: only construction, and every client gets their numbers monthly, on one page, with someone who understands them on the phone the next day. That rule hasn't changed. Everything else, the Reset, the coaching, the workbook, came from watching what actually moved the needle for clients and turning it into a system.

What I believe

You're not failing. You've been let down.

If you can't tell me the margin on your last job, how much retention is held from you, or your bank balance in eight weeks, that's not a character flaw. Your accountant has all three numbers. They've just never been turned into something you can use.

Coaching is worthless without the numbers

There are good construction coaches out there. Most of them are working off a P&L someone else prepared, and if it's booking applications as sales and ignoring WIP, the coaching is built on sand. We produce the numbers, then we coach on them. It's the only version of this that works.

Straightforward, even when it's awkward

Sometimes the honest answer is that a customer is costing you money, a foreman needs to go, or the excavator was a mistake. We'll say it, kindly, because that's what you're paying for.

The whole thing in 90 seconds

Outside work

Swindon, a family, and a football club that tests the patience. Contractors buy from people, not firms, so if you want to know more, ask on the call.

Where you'll find me

• LinkedIn: three posts a week on construction numbers
• WhatsApp: 07595 311277, for a quick question
• The book: Built on Sand, free to download