Find the money leaking out of your business.
Calls get missed. Estimates sit. Extras never make the invoice. Checks get chased for weeks. We find where the money is leaking — then build and run the systems that stop it.
One hour. On-site. Costs nothing. You leave with the leaks in dollars per month.
Sound like your Tuesday?
The estimate sat four days. They hired someone else.
Calls hit voicemail while your crews are on a job. Requests pile up in an inbox. By the time you call back, the work went to the next name on the list — and most owners have no idea how many jobs leave this way.
The schedule lives in your head.
Every job routes through you. Crews wait on answers, change orders live on crumpled tickets in a truck, and hours get worked that never make it onto an invoice.
The job closed two weeks ago. The invoice went out yesterday.
Billing happens at night after the real work. Invoices go out late, get paid later, and somebody — usually you — spends Fridays chasing checks.
Every one of these is money. We'll show you how much.
This is what you leave the audit with.
None of this is new sales. It's work you're already doing and calls you're already getting.
Sample findings sheet. Deliberately conservative numbers. Yours to keep whether you hire us or not.
Want to know your number? Book the free audit →One hour in your shop. We'll show you the leaks in dollars.
No pitch deck. No jargon. We walk your operation the way a buyer would — because valuing businesses is what we do for a living.
- 01
Walk the job.
We follow one job from the first phone ring to cash in the bank. Where it sits, who touches it, what gets retyped, what falls through.
- 02
Get the number.
You leave with a one-page findings sheet: the leaks we found, in dollars per month. Yours to keep whether you hire us or not.
- 03
See the fix.
Within 48 hours you get a fixed-price proposal to plug the biggest leak first. Clear cost, clear payback, no surprises.
Worst case: you get a free second opinion on your business from someone who's seen inside 200+ of them.
The audit is free because we make our money building and running the fixes — not selling reports.
We don't hand you a report. We install the fix and stay.
Whatever the audit finds — that's what we build. Then we run it every month. Not a project that ends. Someone who owns it.
Every call answered. Nothing lost to voicemail.
Your phone gets picked up on the first ring — nights, weekends, and when every crew is on a job. Customers get their questions handled and end up on your calendar, not in your voicemail.
Jobs move without you in the middle.
From first call to schedule to job ticket to invoice, the paperwork moves itself. You can take a vacation without the phone.
Invoices out same day. Paid faster.
The invoice goes out when the job closes, not two weeks later. Follow-ups happen without anyone chasing. Cash shows up sooner, every week.
Your team keeps working the way they know.
We build around how your operation already runs. Nobody gets retrained on some new system. The busywork just stops being a person's job.
One monthly engagement. One person who knows your operation and answers when you call. And every fix does double duty — more profit now, and a business that's worth more later, because it runs on systems instead of on you.
What a fix actually looks like.
The audit determines the fix — we build around the leak, not a software package. Three examples of what that means:
- MISSED CALLS
The missed-call fix.
A customer calls while every crew is out. The phone gets answered anyway — the caller gets qualified and lands on your calendar as a booked estimate, before they dial the next name on the list. Day or night.
- PAPERWORK
The paperwork fix.
A crew closes out a job from the truck. The ticket becomes an invoice the same day, and follow-up happens automatically until it's paid. Nobody types anything twice. Nobody spends Friday chasing checks.
- ONE SCREEN
The one-screen fix.
The schedule, open estimates, jobs in progress, and unpaid invoices — one place, current, without asking anyone. The business stops living in your head.
Whatever the audit finds — that's what we build. Around the tools and habits your team already has.
I've been inside 200+ businesses like yours.
I'm Seth Pellerin. I'm a business broker — my day job is valuing and selling companies exactly like yours. That work goes deeper than the P&L. To sell a business, I have to understand exactly how it runs — how jobs come in, how crews get scheduled, how money moves from the first phone call to the bank. I've done that more than 200 times. I know which leaks kill profit, and which fixes actually move the number.
Before that, I spent a decade selling data and analytics at firms like Bain and Gartner, and at a startup I helped build and sell. That job put me inside companies like Walmart, Google, Clorox, and On Running — and here's the secret: none of it is magic. What makes a billion-dollar company hum is a handful of simple ideas, executed every single day.
The businesses that actually hold this state together — the crews, the shops, the trades — work as hard as anyone in those buildings. Harder. They were just never handed the same tools. That gap is the entire reason Soteaux exists.
Main Street should run as well as Wall Street.
I'm local, and I show up in person. When something breaks at 7am, you're not calling a help desk in another time zone. You're calling someone who knows your name and your operation.
Every extra dollar of profit we help you keep is worth two to three dollars the day you sell your business. A company that runs on systems — instead of on the owner — earns a higher multiple. We know. Selling businesses is our other job.
More cash now. Less of it running through you. A business worth more the day you sell.
What you're actually wondering.
One hour. I'll show you what it's costing you.
I'll come to your shop, follow one job from the first phone ring to cash in the bank, and hand you a one-page sheet with the leaks in dollars per month. Costs nothing. Yours to keep either way.
Serving Louisiana — one business at a time