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Unit Economics Kill-List Audit

Identify every product, customer segment, and business unit destroying margin β€” then build a ranked kill-list with exit playbooks, dollar impact, and a portfolio optimized for profit.

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Company Profile
Full legal or trading name of the business (e.g., Prism Digital Marketing)
Industry and how the company earns revenue (e.g., B2B SaaS serving mid-market logistics companies, subscription pricing)
Total trailing twelve-month revenue (e.g., $52,000,000)
Current EBITDA dollars and margin (e.g., $2.2M EBITDA, 4.2% margin)
List the 3–10 products, services, or SKUs to audit (e.g., SEO retainers, PPC management, content production, brand strategy, social media packages)
Customer & Segment Data
Describe the key customer segments by size, industry, or channel (e.g., SMB e-commerce <$10M revenue; mid-market SaaS $10M–$100M; enterprise retail >$100M)
Number of active customers per segment (e.g., SMB: 180 clients; mid-market: 65 clients; enterprise: 12 clients)
ARR or ACV per customer for each segment (e.g., SMB $28K/yr; mid-market $185K/yr; enterprise $480K/yr)
Customer churn rate by segment (e.g., SMB 42%; mid-market 18%; enterprise 8%)
All-in cost to acquire one new customer per segment (e.g., SMB CAC $2,400; mid-market CAC $12,000; enterprise CAC $45,000)
Cost Structure & Unit Economics
Variable cost to deliver the product or service per customer or unit (e.g., SMB: $19K direct labor + tools per client; mid-market: $82K per client)
How shared overhead is allocated (e.g., pro-rated by headcount: each SMB client absorbs $15K/yr of SG&A; mid-market $45K/yr)
Annual fixed costs that do not vary with volume (e.g., $8.2M including $4.1M payroll, $1.4M rent, $0.9M software, $1.8M G&A)
What drives unit cost up or down (e.g., labor hours per deliverable, cloud compute per seat, raw materials per unit, third-party ad spend)
Profitability Intelligence
Segments or products you already suspect are unprofitable (e.g., e-commerce content clients at $45K revenue but $28K COGS plus $18K SG&A = –22% net margin)
LTV by segment if known, or the data needed to calculate it (e.g., SMB LTV $38K at 42% churn; mid-market LTV $740K at 18% churn)
Months to recover CAC from gross margin per segment (e.g., SMB 18 months; mid-market 11 months; enterprise 6 months)
Contractual, operational, or reputational barriers to exiting customers or segments (e.g., 12-month auto-renewing contracts; 3 enterprise customers are reference accounts; 6 FTEs dedicated to e-commerce content team)
Strategic Context & Objectives
What leadership wants to achieve in the next 12–24 months (e.g., improve EBITDA margin from 4% to 12%; double mid-market revenue; prepare for Series B due diligence)
Minimum acceptable contribution margin per unit/customer and overall EBITDA target (e.g., no segment below 30% contribution margin; total EBITDA target $6M by Year 2)
Where headcount, capital, or bandwidth freed from exited segments will be redeployed (e.g., 8 FTEs from e-commerce content redirected to mid-market PPC team expansion)
Generating Report
This may take several minutes depending on report complexity. Do not close this tab.
  • Mapping revenue and cost by segment
  • Calculating contribution margins and LTV/CAC ratios
  • Ranking kill-list candidates by EBITDA drag
  • Running QC validation
  • Rendering profitability audit report

QC Validation Report

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Total Score
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Completeness 40%
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Specificity 30%
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Validation 20%
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