Margin Telemetry, project realization dashboard
Real-time margin visibility before the project budget is burned.
See budget burn against contracted progress for every fixed-fee project, with unbilled scope creep in hours and dollars, while there is still time to change the outcome.
Realization rate
93.4%
+2.1 pts vs Q3
Projects at margin risk
2 of 14
CVN-BRAND, ORB-CLOUD
Unbilled scope open
$38,250
61 flags awaiting PM
Recovered via change orders
$61,900
23 signed this quarter
Margin burn
Burn ahead of progress is the earliest warning you get.
Pick a project and scrub through the weeks. When the coral burn line pulls away from the deliverables line, the forecast and the unbilled creep tell you why.
Shipment tracking apps, $186,000 fixed fee
Creep bars are scaled 4x for legibility.
- Burn vs. completion gap
- +10 pts
- Margin forecast
- 43%
- Planned 50%
- Realization rate
- 97.9%
- Unbilled creep
- 17 h
- $2,550
Client creep scorecard
Know which accounts ask for the most unbilled work.
Not a blacklist. A planning tool for renewals, SOW templates and kickoff conversations, visible only inside your agency.
| Client | Projects | Flags (12 mo) | Recovered via change order | Unbilled hours | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corvina Coffee Co. | 3 | 27 | 41% | 112 | Rising |
| Orbis Logistics | 2 | 19 | 83% | 74 | Stable |
| Halvorsen Freight | 1 | 11 | 65% | 49 | Falling |
| Mapleview Health | 2 | 6 | 67% | 18 | Stable |
| Fernhill Outdoors | 4 | 4 | 100% | 9 | Falling |
What you can see
The finance view of scope, updated as work happens.
Built for the founder who wants the margin number, the finance lead who wants realization, and the delivery director who wants to know which project to look at first.
- 01
Project margin forecast
Compares the contracted fee with consumed engineering hours and unbilled scope creep to forecast margin at completion. Signed change orders add to the fee the moment they are signed.
Planned
50%
If absorbed
39%
With COs
46%
- 02
Client creep scorecard
Identifies accounts that consistently request unbilled work across projects and retainers, and how much of it has been recovered. Account managers use it to tighten the next SOW before renewal.
- 03
Realization rate tracker
Measures the percentage of delivered hours that convert into billed revenue, per project, client and team, and links every point of leakage to the flag that caused it.
realization = billed hours / delivered hours
18.4%
average project margin reclaimed on fixed-fee engagements
TWINJAM onboarding audit, 2026
$140k
unbilled scope surfaced per $1M of agency revenue, annualized
TWINJAM onboarding audit, 2026
FAQ
Questions PMs and founders ask
Contracted fee and milestones come from the parsed SOW and signed change orders. Hours come from Harvest, Toggl Track, Clockify or ClickUp time tracking. Cost rates come from your settings or, on Scale, from NetSuite. Billed and collected amounts come from QuickBooks Online, Xero or NetSuite.
TWINJAM projects hours at completion from hours consumed and the share of contracted deliverables accepted so far, multiplies by your loaded cost rate, and compares that with the contracted fee plus signed change orders. It updates every time time entries or ticket states sync.
The percentage of delivered hours that convert into billed revenue. Hours spent on flagged, uncontracted work reduce realization until a change order recovers them, so the tracker shows exactly which requests are dragging it down.
No. It is an internal view for agency leadership and account managers, used to plan renewals, adjust SOW templates and set expectations at kickoff. It is never shared outside your workspace.
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