Manufacturing and engineering confidence fell to -13.7 in Q2 2026, down from +1.7 in Q1, making project-level cost, utilisation and margin visibility commercially urgent. Engineering firms rarely fail because of poor workmanship. More often, management accounts don't show which projects are consuming cash, which teams are productive, or where margin
Your engineering team has spent months resolving difficult technical problems, testing prototypes and refining production methods. The finance team has the invoices and payroll data, but the claim discussion still starts with the same question: which projects qualify under the post-2024 rules, and what cash value can the company realistically
The monthly pack for striveX's own SaaS product, Strively, has to answer two questions at once. Are the statutory numbers correct, and does the business have enough cash and customer momentum to keep investing? Why We Track SaaS Metrics Ourselves striveX runs its own SaaS product, so its finance team
A growing fleet can look profitable on the monthly profit and loss while cash headroom vanishes unnoticed. Fuel invoices arrive before customers settle, agency-driver costs move with demand, and a vehicle that appears fully utilised may still lose money once maintenance, depreciation and empty mileage are included. For a logistics
