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Revenue tells you how big the company is. The gates show what your week actually looks like, and five minutes with them tells you which band to work on.

A RocketLevel self-check for restoration owners, backed by decades of experience in the trade. It pulls every gate from the five Revenue Growth Band pages into one list.

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Three ways to run it, all with the same gates.

No Google account? Download it for Excel instead.


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On a phone? This self-check only runs on a computer. Use *your own copy in Google Sheets or download it for Excel instead.*

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How the answer works

Each band has a short list of what has to be true before the next one. Your working band is the first band with two or more gates that are not true yet. A single open gate in a lower band does not move you down. It shows up as a fix-first item, and you close it before the three gates you pick for the quarter. That rule, the gates and the dollar breakpoints are RocketLevel's working view of how restoration companies change as they grow, not a published standard.

Here is how that plays out. A $7M shop ticks every Band 1 gate, but nobody besides the owner works receivables and nobody besides the owner can write an estimate. That is two open Band 2 gates, so its working band is Band 2. Revenue puts it in Band 3, but it runs like a Band 2 shop, so it works Band 2 first. The fix is a person who works accounts receivable (AR) on a set day, plus a second estimator. Another rep would not help yet. If receivables were the only open gate, the shop would work Band 3, with AR at the top of its fix-first list.

A shop can also run ahead of its revenue. If a $4M company already clears every Band 1 and Band 2 gate, its systems are built for more work than it has. That is room to grow into, and the next gates to work are Band 3's.

What to do with the answer

  1. Open your band's page. Band 1 (Launch to $1M) Β· Band 2 ($1M to $5M) Β· Band 3 ($5M to $10M) Β· Band 4 ($10M to $20M) Β· Band 5 ($20M and up). Each one names the pages to open first and the one worksheet to fill in this week.
  2. Pick three open gates. Put an owner and a date on each in Your Revenue Growth Band Worksheet. Keep it to three.
  3. Break them into two-week work on Template: The Revenue Growth Band Sprint Board.
  4. Watch the week with The Weekly Pulse, and rerun this check next quarter.

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