Cycle time is the metric operators quote and the one they measure least honestly, because the delay is almost never where they think. Broken into stages and set against peers, it stops being a feeling about a busy month and starts naming the step that costs the days.
How long the work takes and how long the money takes, stage by stage: first notice of loss to on-site, estimate to work start, approval lag, completion to invoice, and invoice to cash.
What Gets Measured
Cycle Time
Time To On-Site
Estimate To Work Start
Approval Lag
Days To Invoice
Collection Rate
A/R Over 60 Days
A/R Over 90 Days
Work In Progress
Revenue Per Job
Revenue Per Square
Jobs Per Month
Jobs / Employee
Lean Waste Compound
Carrier Alignment Drift
Cross-Entity Bottleneck
Cohort Step Gap
Capacity SPoF
Each one is read against operators filtered to your size, service mix, and region, so the comparison is to businesses like yours rather than the industry averaged into mush.
Where You Land
Operations and Cash Cycle
We'll show you exactly where you land, the moment you're in.
Become a memberWhere It Comes From
Job-management timestamps, your accounting system, and the estimate and invoice record. Verinode reads what those systems already produce. There is no form to fill in and nothing to migrate, and every connection is read-only: Verinode never writes back into a system you own.
When It Appears
A peer line on this dimension does not appear until enough distinct operators have contributed to it. That is deliberate: a benchmark built on a handful of businesses is not a benchmark, and a thin cohort cannot protect anyone’s anonymity. You will see fewer numbers early, and the ones you see are honest. These are operational figures rather than competitively sensitive ones, so they stay current.
Common Questions
18 metrics: Cycle Time, Time To On-Site, Estimate To Work Start, Approval Lag, Days To Invoice, Collection Rate, A/R Over 60 Days, A/R Over 90 Days, Work In Progress, Revenue Per Job, Revenue Per Square, Jobs Per Month, Jobs / Employee, Lean Waste Compound, Carrier Alignment Drift, Cross-Entity Bottleneck, Cohort Step Gap, Capacity SPoF. Each is compared against operators filtered to your size, service mix, and region rather than the industry as a whole, so the peer line reflects businesses actually like yours.
Job-management timestamps, your accounting system, and the estimate and invoice record. Verinode reads what those systems already produce, so there is nothing to migrate and no form to retype your business into. Every connection is read-only, including accounting: Verinode never writes back into a system you own, and every document processed returns a receipt showing exactly what was read.
Enough that it is honest, or it is not shown at all. No statistic publishes until a minimum number of distinct operators have contributed to it, one operator counts once regardless of size, and medians and interquartile ranges are used rather than averages so no single business can move a line. Early on that means you will see fewer benchmarks, which is the intended trade: a peer figure built on a handful of businesses is not a benchmark and cannot protect anyone's anonymity. The full statistical treatment is published at verinode.ai/methodology.
These are operational figures rather than competitively sensitive ones, so they stay current instead of carrying the 90-day lag applied to prices, costs, margins, and wages. Verinode is a neutral administrator throughout: operators contribute to Verinode rather than to each other, no operator sees another's raw data, and only anonymized aggregates are published. The full reasoning is at verinode.ai/fair-benchmarking.
Why Operators Join
Your own figures you can already pull. What you cannot pull is where they sit against operators your size running the same work, and that is the part that tells you whether to act.