Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

This One Number Runs My Entire Business

18 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, Mike Andes explains how HomeWorks relies on a single, unified metric—budget hours versus actual hours, expressed as an efficiency score—to run the business. The efficiency score is discussed in every one‑on‑one, weekly and daily huddle, and is visualized in real time on each employee’s device, turning red the moment a job exceeds its budgeted time. This granular focus enables transparent performance conversations and forms the foundation for a future pay‑for‑performance model, where compensation is directly tied to the efficiency score derived from budget hour data.

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If I've heard you, I think you're pretty big on that type of analytics. Yeah. So budget hours is kind of like, I would say the thing that's through and through on HomeWorks, like budget hours versus actual hours, i.e., the score is the metric to be able to do this, like in one-on-ones, in our performance, in our weekly huddles, in our daily huddles, like is all we talk about is efficiency score. So that's why like when you see budget hours on every visit, every single meeting, every single job, that's why, uh, that's the number that's gonna be the easiest to use with them is like, hey, did you hit budget hours? That's like the easiest because they can see it. It goes red on their device as soon as they start going over that time. Uh, the more granular approach is actually tracking efficiency score and actually having a scoreboard or compensation tied to that and moving in the direction of a more, more like a pay for performance situation. Um, that's when you would actually take the budget hours and the information there and actually utilize it to change comp.