Kingswell Insights · Software
Know what’s happening in your business. Know what to do next.
Kingswell Insights turns your financial data into clear commercial insight — identifying performance changes, cash risks, margin pressure and the decisions that require attention.
Revenue
£4.8m
+12.4% vs prior year
Gross margin
31.4%
−2.1 pts, third month down
Cash
£640k
−£95k month on month
13-week low
£310k
Week 9, projected
This month’s briefing
- MarginDelivery cost, not price, is taking 1.8 points of gross margin.
- CashDebtor days moved 42 → 57. £197k of cash is funding customers.
- ForecastRecruitment plan pulls December cash to £184k.
It reads your numbers the way a finance director would.
Most reporting tools show you data and leave the interpretation to you. Insights does the interpretation first, then shows the evidence behind it.
- 01
Executive briefing
The three or four things that changed this month, written as conclusions rather than charts to interpret.
- 02
Performance & profitability
Revenue, margin and EBITDA by customer, job, contract and service line — with the movement explained.
- 03
Cash & working capital
Thirteen-week cash, debtor and creditor behaviour, and the weeks where funding gets tight.
- 04
Risks & recommendations
Findings classified by risk, pressure and opportunity, each with a recommended decision and its effect.
Five steps between your accounting system and a decision.
Your bookkeeping, your accountant and your finance system stay exactly where they are. Insights sits above them.
- 01
Connect or upload
Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, ERP exports or a spreadsheet upload.
- 02
Structure
Consistent chart mapping, periods aligned, anomalies flagged.
- 03
Analyse
Trend, variance, margin, working capital and forecast tests.
- 04
Conclude
Findings written as conclusions with the evidence attached.
- 05
Decide
Recommended decisions, their effect, and who owns them.
Every figure leads to a conclusion. Every conclusion opens its evidence.
A working demonstration using illustrative figures. Select any finding to see how Insights explains it.
- Revenue
- £4.8m
- +12.4%12 months
- Gross margin
- 31.4%
- −2.1ptsvs prior year
- EBITDA
- £720k
- +4.8%12 months
- Cash
- £640k
- −£95kmonth on month
- 13-week low
- £310k
- Week 9projected
What needs attention
Evidence
33.5% → 31.4%
- Price+0.3
- Mix−0.6
- Labour recovery−0.8
- Subcontract−1.0
Delivery cost, not pricing. The question becomes a resourcing question.
Conclusion. Subcontract cost and labour recovery account for 1.8 of the 2.1 point fall. Price is holding.
Figures are illustrative and do not represent a client.
Your biggest customer is rarely your best one.
Insights ranks revenue against contribution across customers, jobs, contracts and service lines, then explains the movement: price, mix, recovery or delivery cost.
The inversions are what matter — the work that looks like growth and behaves like dilution.
Ranked by revenue → ranked by contribution
Illustrative figures
- Riverside£1240k8.1%
- Northgate£880k27.4%
- Halden Park£640k31.2%
- Ashcroft£520k22.8%
- Millbrook£410k18.6%
Riverside is the largest job by revenue and close to the smallest by contribution. Insights surfaces that inversion the month it appears, not at the year end.
Growth consumes cash before it produces it.
A thirteen-week view of cash, driven by real debtor and creditor behaviour rather than payment terms nobody honours.
What it answers
- Which week is tightest, and by how much
- How much cash customer payment behaviour is absorbing
- What the funding requirement is before it becomes urgent
13-week cash
Illustrative figures
The question is not what the bank balance is today. It is which week is tightest, why, and what changes it.
A finding without a recommended decision is just an observation.
Insights classifies what it finds, states the recommended action, and quantifies the effect of taking it.
- RiskWeek 9 cash low of £310k sits below the agreed £400k floor.Move two supplier payments into week 11 and chase £180k of overdue invoices.
- PressureSubcontract recovery on Riverside is running 9 points below plan.Reprice the remaining phases or renegotiate subcontract rates before extension.
- OpportunityHalden Park delivers 31% margin on a third of Riverside’s revenue.Weight the pipeline toward work with the Halden Park delivery profile.
A board-ready pack, produced monthly.
Everything in the workspace exports as a management pack — the same conclusions, in a form you can send to a board, a lender or an investor.
Available within days of month end, not weeks.
Included in the pack
- Management P&L with prior period and budget comparison
- Revenue, gross margin and EBITDA trend
- Customer, job and contract profitability ranking
- Cash, working capital and debtor behaviour
- KPI performance against target
- Written commentary and an executive summary
Connect a system, or upload what you already produce.
Most businesses are running within a day. Nothing changes in how your bookkeeping is done.
Connect your finance system
Read-only connection to Xero, QuickBooks or Sage. Nothing is written back.
Upload an export
Trial balance, P&L, aged debtors and creditors from any system, including ERP exports.
Spreadsheet upload
Where reporting still lives in Excel, upload it and Insights structures it.
Read-only, encrypted, and yours alone.
Financial data is the most sensitive information a business holds. Insights is built on that assumption.
- Read-only access to accounting data — Insights never posts or edits entries
- Encrypted in transit and at rest, hosted in the UK/EU
- Access controlled per user, with permissions set by you
- Your data is never used to train models or shared with other clients
- Connections can be revoked by you at any time
- Confidentiality terms in place before any data is connected
Get started
See your own numbers in Kingswell Insights.
Open the application and start a workspace, or ask us to run your first month with you alongside a Finance Clarity Review.