Intelligence · Margin intelligenceKnow what your work earns.
What you earn next to what it costs, with the real cost price underneath and reconciled with your accounting.
What you get
What it gives you.
Margin intelligence is the Dashly module for your margin per hour, client and placement, with the real cost price underneath.
Margin that adds up
Per client, contract and placement. So you see where you really make money.
Hours you can still invoice
For every payroll run, you see what was payrolled but not invoiced. Allowances included.
Cash flow ahead
Receivables, payment behaviour per client and a cash flow forecast 13 weeks ahead.
One example
From signal to action.
This is how one question runs through Dashly: you see what's shifting, why, and what to do about it.
You see it
Every system shows its own piece. Dashly puts them side by side, on your definitions.
You know why
The model exposes the cause, across your systems.
You act on it
A suggestion that fits the cause. You approve.
Why, and what next
Why the margin shifts.
Why is margin per hour falling while our rates stayed the same?
- Has the cost price per hour risen because of allowances, travel costs or a new phase?
- Have all payrolled hours and allowances also been invoiced?
- Which clients and roles account for the difference?
What you doPass on allowances correctly, invoice missing hours and make a rate proposal where margin is below your target.
- Margin intelligence
- Capacity intelligence
- Compliance intelligence
Which clients deliver the lowest margin per placement?
- How long do placements last at that client, and how many end early?
- How much recruitment time and recruitment cost goes into each placement?
- Has the CLA (collective labour agreement) increase been built into the rates?
What you doReview the rate or terms per client, and focus recruitment on clients where placements last.
- Margin intelligence
- Demand intelligence
- Recruitment intelligence
Why are a department's staff costs running over budget?
- How much of the cost is external hiring and self-employed contractors?
- Which vacancies stay open for a long time, and what does that cost per critical role?
- Where are you hiring externally when permanent headcount is cheaper?
What you doConvert critical external hires into permanent headcount, and prioritise the vacancies that cost the most per day.
- Margin intelligence
- Capacity intelligence
- Recruitment intelligence
In the model
What it's made of.
Steering question: what do I earn per hour, client and placement, and when does the money come in?
Revenue at three moments
Revenue from the work, invoiced and in your accounts. For each KPI we record which moment counts, and differences are explained.
Cost price and margin
What an hour or placement really costs, with wages, contributions, allowances and travel, against rate or fee.
From work to invoice and cash
Work in progress, payrolled versus invoiced, receivables and pre-financing. Money that's already earned, but not yet in.
From your systems, for example
Payroll, back office and accounting. For corporate, also your HR system; for an agency, your time tracking.
- Rates and fees
- Cost price per hour
- Worked, payrolled and invoiced hours
- Invoices and receivables
- Work in progress
- Payment terms
Steering
What you do with it.
Every number comes with something you can adjust. We set the threshold with you, based on a baseline measurement.
Review the rate
A rate proposal to the client, with the reasoning behind it.
Index rates
Build the CLA (collective labour agreement) increase into your rates.
Pass on allowances
Invoice unsocial hours, weekend work and travel costs correctly.
Invoice missing hours
Track down hours that were payrolled but not invoiced.
Reduce external hiring
Convert critical external hires into permanent headcount.
Only for Corporate and enterprise
Cap hours per campaign
Monitor and standardise the budget per campaign.
Only for Recruitment marketing agency
How we work
We set it up, you approve.
Dashly AGI, our digital colleagues, sets up each layer. A data manager reviews it with you if you want. Nothing goes live until you approve.
Connect
Your systems connected: flowing in automatically, with history, monitored.
Model
The model set up on your definitions: what counts as a placement, hire or worked hour.
Validate
We check the numbers against your own and explain the differences.
Live
Only once the numbers add up: in dashboards, in your own AI, or both.
Quick answers
Everyday questions.
From your own systems, on your definitions.
- Which clients deliver the lowest margin per hour?
- What does a worked hour really cost, with allowances and travel costs?
- Does a contract reach the agreed value over its term?
- When does the money come in?
- Are staff costs staying within budget, and what does each hire and each open vacancy cost?
Connected to
Everything connects.
All modules run on the same foundation and the same keys. That way you see how they affect each other.