36 years walking into restoration, insurance, and service businesses — and finding the money everyone else missed. You don't have a marketing problem. You have a profit problem.
Mike doesn't consult from a whiteboard in a distant office. He walks your floors, reads your P&Ls, and tells you exactly what it's costing you — and exactly how to fix it.
A forensic review of your operations, pricing, and margins to find the exact places money is walking out the door — usually within 48 hours of arrival on site.
Learn more →Broken workflows, bad job costing, and invisible overhead drag down every dollar of revenue. Mike restructures the machinery so your margins finally make sense.
Learn more →Building to sell or transfer? Mike positions your business as an enterprise worth owning — not just a job with employees attached to a phone number.
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Mike walks in, reads the business, and finds what everyone else missed. These aren't projections. They're dollars found — businesses still spending them today.
Mike walked in on a Tuesday and by Thursday he'd found $400,000 we didn't know we were leaving on the table. I've never had a consultant pay for themselves in 48 hours before.
Owner — Restoration & Remediation Company, Ohio
Mike McCabe has spent 36 years walking into businesses that thought they had a sales problem, a staffing problem, or a marketing problem — and showing them they had a profit problem.
He built his career in the restoration, insurance, and service industries, where margins are thin, job costing is complex, and most owners are too close to the operation to see what's bleeding them dry.
As The Profit Detective, Mike works exclusively with owners ready to stop guessing and start building enterprises worth owning.
36 years in restoration, insurance, and service industry operations
200+ companies assessed, restructured, and grown
Keynote speaker at major industry conferences nationwide
Specializes in profit leak detection, job costing & enterprise exit prep
Whether it's a room of 12 business owners or a conference of 500, Mike brings the same thing: hard-won insight delivered without flinching. No fluff. No frameworks that don't work in the real world. Just the truth about why your margins are where they are — and how to fix it.
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Outside the boardroom, Mike is a reader, a beach walker, and someone who believes the best business decisions get made when your head is clear.
Most engagements pay for themselves within the first week. The only question is how long you're willing to wait.