Keep your software. See it differently.
You already have the data. We bring it together, then make it make sense. Your three years of Xero, every visit in your booking system and your payroll go in. Tested maths runs the numbers. Then each one is read three ways (money, people, floor) and the three reads are reconciled into one. What comes out is where to look first.
Three steps, then a monthly rhythm.
Tell us about your salon.
Five minutes of questions, once. Your software, your team, what you want this year, what's been keeping you up. And one more: how you'd like to be spoken to. Directly, neutrally, or softly.
Send your exports. We do the setup.
We show you where the two reports live in Phorest, Fresha, Timely or Kitomba, and in Xero. Then we crunch three years by hand, check what your systems have been tracking, match your staff across them, and, if anything needs a question to your accountant, tell you exactly what to ask. Nothing reaches you until it ties out.
See the picture. Choose your focus.
Then one morning, coffee in hand, you open it. The month so far, in dollars. Which stylist needs a conversation this week, and what it's worth. The one line that's eating your profit, and the two or three places to look first, in plain English. Ten minutes, and you walk onto the floor already knowing. The decisions stay yours.
Three experts. One intelligent layer.
The financial view, the coaching view, and the view from behind the chair, finally looking at the same salon, minus the blind spots of each. Your salon software, your accounting and your payroll, read as one.
“What is this business actually keeping?”
Where the money's actually going. What it costs to open the doors. Whether there's a hole in the bucket, whether your wages are running too high, and how it all ties back to one number: your projected net profit.
“Which two people need my attention this month?”
What the numbers mean for your team. Who's ahead, who needs support, who's quietly taking more than they're making. Where a useful conversation could start, with a name and a monthly figure on it.
“What does this look like on Tuesday morning?”
The reality behind the report. Rosters, colour, rebooking, pricing, the Saturday roster: the everyday decisions of actually running a salon, from someone who's still doing it.
Eight things we read. One Game Plan.
The intelligent layer doesn't work from industry benchmarks, half of which are wrong because they're averaged from salons that are also struggling. It works from the numbers that actually make a salon profitable. What good really looks like, not what the survey says.
Which question follows you home?
Pick the one you most want answered. This is the shape of it. Your Salon Brain runs these on your own numbers, updated every month.
Are we actually profitable?
Revenue's moving, but I can't tell what we really keep.
Start with what the salon keeps, not what it takes: net profit percentage this month, weekly breakeven (the number you have to beat), and the safety margin above it.
Are wages costing too much?
I can see payroll, but not whether the team economics work.
Look at labour as the whole picture: fully loaded labour (wages plus super) as a share of revenue, each stylist's cost against what they billed, and where it sits: green, amber or red.
Who needs my attention?
I have team reports, but not the two conversations that matter.
Two conversations, not ten: each stylist's rebooking and retail against your own salon's average, with the gap priced per month so you know where to start.
Would a price rise fix this?
I need to see the effect in dollars before I change anything.
See it before you test it on real clients: the dollars a rise adds at your current volume, what it does to net profit, and whether a rise is overdue, and by how much.
Set three goals. Upload each month. Watch the bar move.
Set three goals
Lift net profit toward target. Bring wages under the ceiling. Build the safety margin. Trim one expense line. You pick three from what the layer already measures.
Upload each month
Two exports, a few minutes. Same reports every month, so it becomes a habit rather than a project. Each update takes about thirty seconds.
Watch the bar move
Each goal shows where this month sits between where you started and your target, with a read on what moved it.
Three things it won't do.
It won't fill an empty diary.
It shows you what the diary is doing to your profit. Marketing is your call.
It won't tell you what to do.
It shows you your numbers and what they're pointing toward. The decisions stay yours.
It won't make you like spreadsheets.
You'll never need to open one.
So let me ask you a question.
If you could see the handful of numbers that actually decide your profit, read by a CFO, a coach and a profitable owner together, and every morning you knew which two or three things to look at first, would your salon be run differently by the end of the month? If the answer's yes, here's what we put together for owners who are ready.
Ideas and suggestions from your own numbers; the decisions are yours.