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A RocketLevel tool, backed by decades of experience in the trade. Warranted work slips through as missed scope on more jobs than plenty of owners think. Enter your numbers and see how much you're leaving on the table each year, and what lifting your supplement recovery toward the 90 percent target is worth in real gross profit. The target is yours to set. Read the note on where 90 came from before you treat it as gospel.
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Seven numbers come back.
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What you enter. Six cells, plus the recovery target (90 percent unless you change it). Estimate honestly. A flattering input gives you a comfortable answer and no reason to change anything.
If you have never tracked the middle two, guess low for now, then track them for ninety days and rerun this. In our experience the real numbers come in worse than the guess.
Track it in the job file, one line per closed job: original approved estimate, supplement filed, supplement approved, and who filed it. Ninety days of that turns the middle two inputs from guesses into measurements, and it also tells you whether the problem is scope nobody spotted or scope nobody wrote up.
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Where the 90 percent comes from. It is the recovery rate this tool models against. It is not an industry benchmark and we are not going to present it as one. We went looking for a published, sourced figure on supplement recovery rates, from the trade associations and from the claims data vendors, and did not find one solid enough to stand on.
Treat 90 percent as an aggressive but reachable goal for a shop with disciplined field documentation and a person who owns supplements. If your own goal is 70, or 95, put that in instead. What the tool is really measuring is the distance between where your recovery sits today and where you have decided it should sit, and every dollar figure on the page moves with that gap.
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Worked example. 20 jobs a month, an $8,000 average estimate, 35% of jobs carrying missed scope, 8% of the estimate missed on those jobs, 40% recovered today, 45% gross margin.
That $12,096 is gross profit, before overhead, on work you already sold and already performed. Nobody had to go win it. It was sitting in the file waiting to be documented.
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Three ways to use this calculator
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This calculator covers dollars you recover after the estimate is approved, the supplements you capture when hidden damage or extra scope appears once work is underway. The deductible you never collect and the scope you under-write at the very start belong in the Deductible and Scope Leak Calculator: What Are Your Two Cash Leaks Costing You?. Count those upfront leaks there, not here, so you don't enter the same missed-scope dollars twice.
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Important: please read. This tool is provided free of charge by RocketLevel as a general, educational estimate and starting point only. The results are illustrative estimates based solely on the figures you enter; they are not a guarantee of any outcome, value, cost, or result, and they are not legal, financial, tax, accounting, insurance, or other professional advice. Using this tool does not create an attorney-client, advisory, or other professional relationship with RocketLevel. RocketLevel makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, completeness, or suitability of this tool for your situation, and provides it "as is." You are solely responsible for verifying any figures and for consulting your own attorney, accountant, bookkeeper, CPA, or other qualified advisor before making any decision. To the fullest extent permitted by law, RocketLevel and its affiliates, officers, and employees disclaim all liability for any loss, damage, or claim arising from its use.
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Tools for this play
Open the spreadsheet for your own copy. Keep going: pair this with Defending Your Scope: The Supplement and the Adjuster Conversation, Writing Supplements That Get Approved, and How Restoration Pricing Actually Works: Price Lists, Market Conditions, and O&P.
Do it yourself or have it done. Supplement recovery is your work and stays with you: the job-file log, the field documentation and the person who owns supplements are what move the number this calculator shows. RocketLevel does not write or file supplements. Our part is upstream, where an inside sales team books meetings with property managers and facility directors so more of the work you document well is direct commercial work.
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Part of the free GEM Resource Hub by RocketLevel Commercial. Playbooks and tools for running the whole restoration business, A to Z, while specializing in building commercial revenue you own. RocketLevel is a bolt-on inside sales team that strengthens your commercial pipeline. Explore more in the GEM Resource Hub. New here? About RocketLevel and what the system has produced. When you're ready, see what your market is worth or book a Commercial Growth Call.
How we source figures: every number in this library names its source or is labeled as RocketLevel's own working figure. Read the sourcing standard.
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