Stone & Lever Consulting

Grow Your Business Without Sacrificing Service Quality

We help professional service businesses turn more leads into paying clients, get more production from their staff, keep clients longer, and improve their profit margins.

Lower client acquisition costs, higher sales close rates, improved client retention, and better profit margins.

Built for law firms, medical practices, IT and managed service providers, accounting firms, architecture and engineering firms, recruiting and staffing companies, marketing agencies, consulting firms, and other businesses built around professional expertise and service.

Get More Clients From the Ads You Already Pay For

We figure out what it costs to acquire a new client, which lead sources produce paying clients, and how much revenue each source produces.

More clients from the same ad spend, more revenue from every lead source, and a clear picture of where to put your next marketing dollar.

Turn More Leads Into Paying Clients

We create a clear path from the first inquiry through the signed agreement or contract so your team knows what information to collect, how to qualify the opportunity, how to present your scope and pricing, and when to follow up. We also shorten unnecessary delays between discovery, proposal, and the close so qualified prospects do not sit in your pipeline waiting for someone to move a deal forward.

Shorter sales cycles, fewer unanswered proposals, and more paying clients.

Make Your Marketing Produce More Paying Clients

We track which lead sources produce paying clients, how much revenue they produce, and how each channel performs over time. Then we test one change at a time and measure the impact before changing anything else. We do not make marketing decisions based on leads alone. We follow each source to how much revenue it generates.

More money behind the sources that consistently produce paying clients and continued testing so your paid ads produce more revenue per dollar.

Know Which Clients and Services Actually Make the Most Money

We compare the revenue from each client, engagement, or project against the time and resources required to deliver it. That shows you which clients and services produce your strongest margins and where your pricing or delivery needs to change.

Make more money by selling more of the services with the best margins.

Get More From the People You Already Pay

We figure out how much work each person can realistically produce and create production and capacity targets by role, type of engagement, and client load. We then use those targets to increase how much business your existing team can handle before you add another salary. This often means serving more clients with the people you already employ, so you spend less to make more.

Your team serves more clients before you add another salary, and you hire in time to keep growing without sacrificing quality of service.

Get Better Results From Your Staff

We define the core functions of each role in your company and spell out exactly what each person is responsible for. In smaller businesses, people often wear several hats, but we draw clear lines between sales, onboarding, client service, delivery, billing, and management so responsibilities do not get lost between people or departments.

We create SOPs for your repeatable processes, set measurable standards for each role, and train your managers to evaluate staff performance against those standards and provide feedback in real time.

Your employees will have clear expectations, your managers will manage staff based on data, and your business will serve more clients with fewer mistakes and more consistent results.

Get Paid Faster and Collect More of What You Earn

We review when and how you bill clients and move payment earlier in the engagement wherever your business model allows it. We also create clear standards for invoicing and following up on overdue balances so completed client work does not sit in accounts receivable forever.

Less money tied up in unpaid invoices, fewer collection problems, and more cash available to run and grow your business.

Keep More Clients and Win More Repeat Business

We set minimum communication and service standards so clients know what to expect next and have their problems resolved within minutes or hours. For businesses built around ongoing engagements, renewals, or repeat projects, we create clear follow-up processes so a completed engagement does not automatically become the end of a relationship.

Better retention, more renewals and repeat business, and more revenue from the clients you already paid to acquire.

Make Every Meeting Productive

We review every recurring meeting to make sure it has a clear agenda and purpose.

If your team is meeting just to repeat pipeline numbers or other information they can and should review on their own, we move those updates to email, Slack, or a dashboard. When bringing people together helps you make decisions, solve client or staffing problems, coach employees, or coordinate between teams, you get faster decisions, clear accountability, and fewer unresolved issues.

Fewer unnecessary meetings mean more uninterrupted time and more productive employees.

Hire Better People

We help you make better hiring decisions by teaching you and your managers how to interview candidates. We teach you how to use open-ended questions, structured follow-ups, and specific prompts to understand how someone thinks through problems, communicates with clients and coworkers, manages competing priorities, and responds when something goes wrong. We also provide interview questions, decision trees, and follow-up prompts your managers can use when a candidate’s answer raises a concern or deserves a deeper look.

Less time wasted hiring and replacing people, more productive employees, and more revenue produced for every salary you add.

Enjoy Being an Owner

By the end of our engagement, fewer day-to-day decisions will need your attention and involvement. You can focus on growing the business, spend time with your family, and have peace of mind knowing the company will function without you.

Your time in the business becomes a choice, not a requirement.

I'm ready to grow