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Dashboard Addon: Profitability

Know which services make you money and which ones don't. This panel adds revenue vs. cost breakdowns, profit margins, and a ranked view of your most and least profitable work — right inside your command center.

Requires the Business Command Center dashboard. If you haven't set that up yet, start there first.

Before & After

Dashboard Without It

Your command center shows revenue, pipeline, and follow-ups — but you can't tell which jobs actually make money. You're busy, but are you busy with the right work?

Revenue looks healthy, but you have no idea if your margins are 40% or 4%.

Dashboard With It

A new panel on your dashboard shows margin per service type, color-coded green/yellow/red. You can see instantly:

  • Full renovations: 38% margin (green)
  • Maintenance contracts: 52% margin (green)
  • Emergency callouts: 11% margin (red)

Now you know which work to pursue and which to reprice.

What You Need

  • Business Command Centerset it up first if you haven't
  • Two Tabs + Month-End data — revenue from your Inbound/Outbound sheet, expenses from month-end
  • 5 minutes — just tell Claude your cost categories and it builds the panel
1

Tell Claude Your Cost Categories

Claude needs to know what goes into each type of job you do. Tell it:

"Here are my service types and what each one costs me:
[Service 1]: [cost categories — labor, materials, travel, etc.]
[Service 2]: [cost categories]
[Service 3]: [cost categories]
I want to see which services are most profitable."

Don't worry about exact numbers yet. Claude will pull revenue from your Inbound/Outbound sheet and expenses from your month-end data, then map them to these categories.

2

Claude Adds the Profitability Panel

Tell Claude:

"Add a profitability panel to my dashboard. Show margin per service type with color coding — green for healthy, yellow for thin, red for losing money. Include a bar chart comparing revenue vs. cost for each service. Update the dashboard skill so this panel refreshes with everything else."

Claude reads your existing dashboard skill, adds the new panel, and saves the updated version. Next time you say "morning" or "open dashboard", the profitability data shows up automatically.

What You've Built

  • Profit margin per service type, color-coded on your dashboard
  • Revenue vs. cost bar chart so you can see the gap at a glance
  • Ranked view of most and least profitable services
  • Data that updates every time you run your dashboard

Now when someone asks "should we take on more of those jobs?", you have the answer on your screen.

Keep Building Your Dashboard

Profitability is one piece of the picture. Add more panels to see your business from every angle.

Pricing That Pays

Use your margin data to set prices that actually work.

Read the Guide
Month-End

The expense data that feeds this panel.

Read the Guide

Want help wiring up your full dashboard?

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Skill: Dashboard Addon: Profitability

What this is for: Add a profitability panel to the user's existing Business Command Center dashboard. This panel shows revenue vs cost per job type, profit margins, and most/least profitable services.

When to use this: When a user asks their AI assistant to help set up this workflow. The user should explicitly authorize use of this skill by referencing this page URL.

Full Procedure (click to expand)
STEP 1 — GATHER COST CATEGORIES Ask: "What are the main cost categories for each type of service or job you offer? For example, a landscaper might have: labor hours, fuel, materials, equipment rental. A consultant might have: prep time, travel, software licenses. List out your service types and the costs that go into each one." Wait for their answer. STEP 2 — ADD THE PANEL Read their existing dashboard skill, then tell Claude to add a profitability panel that calculates: - Revenue per job type (from their Inbound/Outbound sheet) - Cost per job type (from their expense data and the categories they just shared) - Profit margin per service (revenue minus costs, as a percentage) - Ranked list: most profitable to least profitable services - Color coding: green for healthy margins, yellow for thin, red for losing money Update the dashboard skill so the profitability panel refreshes with everything else.
Provenance
Author: Austin Wilson, Tsidai
Last updated: 2026-05-08
Last verified working: 2026-05-08
Source URL: https://tsidai.com/guides/profitability-panel