For Colorado Manufacturers Who Are Busier Than Ever, But the Margins Aren't Showing It
The Profit Is Already in Your Shop. You Just Can't See Where It's Leaking.
A fixed-fee, 4-6 week operational audit that finds your hidden margin leaks. Built by a manufacturing veteran with 40 years on the floor, not a consultant with a clipboard.
Book a Discovery CallYou're running more jobs than last year. You're busier than you've ever been. But when you look at the bank account, the numbers don't match the effort.
That gap between effort and earnings? That's margin leaking out of your operation in places you can't see from the floor.
Most fabrication shops are losing 5-15% of revenue to hidden leakage: bad quotes, overtime creep, scrap nobody's tracking, bottlenecks that ripple through every job. On a $5 million operation, that's $250,000 to $750,000 walking out the door every year.
It adds up quietly. And the longer it runs, the more it costs you.
The Manufacturing Profit Recovery audit finds exactly where that money is going, and gives you a plan to get it back.
Does This Sound Like Your Shop?
If you've been burned by consultants before, or you've just been trying to figure it out yourself because nobody else understands your business, you're not wrong to be skeptical.
Most manufacturing consulting is exactly what you think it is: expensive theory from people who've never run a shop.
This isn't that.
How the Manufacturing Profit Recovery Audit Works
A 4-6 week, fixed-fee deep dive into your operation and your financials. Practical answers, not theory, and zero disruption to your production.
Stu Comes to Your Shop
He walks your floor, reviews your financials, and studies your job costing, quoting, scheduling, and throughput. He works around your production schedule. No workshops, no off-sites, no pulling people off the floor.
He Finds Where the Money Is Going
Quoting inaccuracies. Overtime patterns nobody's tracking. Scrap and rework that doesn't show up on a P&L. Scheduling gaps that create bottlenecks. The stuff that's been eating your margin for years, quietly and invisibly.
You Get a Clear Report and Action Plan
A detailed report showing exactly where margin is leaking, with dollar amounts, and a prioritized list of fixes ranked by financial impact. You'll know what to fix first and what it's worth.
Fixed fee. Fixed timeline. Clear deliverable. No surprises.
Find out where your margin is going.
Book a 30-Minute Discovery CallBuilt from the Floor Up
Stu Jensen didn't go to business school and decide to consult. He started as a machine operator, worked his way up to supervisor, plant manager, and General Manager of Sales and Operations, and spent 25 years leading fabrication operations from the floor up.
He's managed operations from 10 to 40+ employees. He's quoted jobs, built schedules, hired and fired, dealt with equipment breakdowns at 4 AM, and covered for the guy who didn't show up on a Monday. He's made every mistake a manufacturing leader can make, and learned from every one of them.
After four decades in manufacturing, Stu kept seeing the same thing: good shops bleeding profit in places the owner couldn't see. Not because they were bad operators. Because they were too deep in the day-to-day to step back and look at the numbers.
That's why he started IronForge Advisors. Not to tell shop owners how to run their business, but to show them where the money is going.
Colorado-Based. Colorado-Focused.
IronForge Advisors works exclusively with manufacturers in Colorado, from the Front Range to the Western Slope.
Metal fabrication. Sheet metal. CNC machining. Welding. Contract manufacturing.
5 to 100 employees. $1M to $20M in revenue. Owner-operated.
If you run a fabrication-based operation in Colorado, this was built for you.
The Profit Is Already in Your Business. Let's Find It.
Tell Stu what's going on in your shop. He'll be straight with you about whether the audit makes sense. No sales pitch, no pressure. Just a straight conversation about your operation.
Book a 30-Minute Discovery Call