<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><oembed><type>video</type><version>1.0</version><html>&lt;iframe src=&quot;https://www.loom.com/embed/c356fd7d80d646988932c60cbc28ab13&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;1920&quot; height=&quot;1440&quot; webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</html><height>1440</height><width>1920</width><provider_name>Loom</provider_name><provider_url>https://www.loom.com</provider_url><thumbnail_height>1440</thumbnail_height><thumbnail_width>1920</thumbnail_width><thumbnail_url>https://cdn.loom.com/sessions/thumbnails/c356fd7d80d646988932c60cbc28ab13-50c220a92e1890b6.gif</thumbnail_url><duration>4081.84</duration><title>The Net Profit Playbook for Construction with Highspire</title><description>This Loom explains how construction companies can increase net profit by tightening overhead, controlling schedule and budget creep, and managing client expectations. Paul Atherton of High Spire and the Adaptive team emphasize overhead should be repeatedly negotiated, consolidated, or eliminated by reviewing the chart of accounts, with a key KPI of GP per week calculated as forecasted gross profit divided by forecasted project duration. They discuss schedule delays reducing weekly GP and provide an example where being ahead in overhead payoff by three weeks yields an extra 200000 in net profit over 52 weeks. The session also covers a pre-construction system using date and gate tracking to prevent clients from disappearing and to compress timelines and improve communication.</description></oembed>