Make the money
you already have
work harder.
Two tracks, one method. First we rebuild how your company reads itself — costs, margins, systems, forecasts — so it earns more from the business it already has. Then we put the cash that releases to work in a governed system that has beaten both the market and bonds for 15 years, publicly tracked. You keep full control of your capital.
The Profit Engine
Most of the profit a company is missing is already inside it — buried in costs nobody has re-examined, margins nobody has measured product by product, and systems built to record the past instead of shaping the future. We take the numbers over and turn them into profit.
Cash-Flow Command
Once the operation throws off surplus, idle cash should outwork the bond market. We build the governed system that decides how much stays liquid, how much goes to work, and when to de-risk it — without ever taking custody of a cent.
One rule. Two inputs.
Zero liquidations.
The same discipline that carried a leveraged account through 2018–2026 without a single wipe-out is the engine we build into every company system. The Governor is the two-rule method that decides, every week, whether capital can be put to work — and pulls it back to safety before a drawdown becomes a permanent loss.
Trend — Nasdaq-100 above its 200-day
Carry leverage only while the index trades above its 200-day moving average. Below it, the market's own price trend has turned against you.
Rates — the Fed is not hiking
And only while the Fed Funds rate is not rising over six months. A tightening Fed is the one macro signal that has repeatedly preceded the drawdowns that liquidate leveraged accounts.
Either flips → cut to 1:1
The moment one condition breaks, de-lever. No forecasting, no discretion — the rule decides for you.
The Governor is available as a free tool, on request. Mention it in the contact form and we send you access. Request access →
Leverage does not kill you in the crash. The forced liquidation at the bottom does. The same $10,000 run at a static 2:1 came within twelve points of being wiped out in December 2018. The Governor's only job is to get you off margin before that happens — so a 2022 costs you a drawdown, not the game.
The Governor describes the risk posture of our own model portfolio. Figures shown are a historical backtest on the Nasdaq-100 (QQQ) with IBKR Reg-T margin and liquidation modelled — not a live return and not a promise. Leverage amplifies losses as well as gains and can result in losses exceeding your deposit. This is general research, published identically to every reader — not personalised investment advice and not a recommendation to use margin. Capital at risk. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Performance measured.
Not claimed.
Every decision the system has made is independently tracked on TipRanks — on the public record, and measured against both the S&P 500 and the bond market.
compares.
We read your company the way we read a listed one.
For fifteen years we have read balance sheets and income statements to decide whether a company was worth putting real money into. That is a fundamentally different discipline from recording what already happened — and it is the one we now point at your business. Bookkeepers file the past. Controllers describe the present. We rebuild the numbers into a system that decides the future.
We take the numbers over
Accounting, invoicing, payroll data, bank flows and supplier records come to us and leave as structured data. Bookkeeping stops being a legal obligation to be endured and becomes the instrument panel the company never had.
Cost & margin X-ray
True unit economics by product, client, channel and site. Which lines actually carry the company, which customers cost more to serve than they pay, and where cost has quietly compounded for years without anyone re-opening the contract.
Restructuring on the evidence
Processes, roles, reporting lines and the cost base redesigned around what the numbers show — not around how it has always been done. Sequenced so the business keeps running while it changes underneath.
Optimised migration to new systems
From paper and spreadsheets to a digital, AI-assisted finance stack: tooling selection, data migration, automated document capture and team training. Executed without stopping the operation and without losing a single historical record.
Projections you can actually run on
Thirteen-week rolling cash, multi-year scenarios, break-even by scenario, and the downside modelled before you commit to the upside. Forecasting stops being an annual ritual and becomes a weekly instrument.
Maximum profit from the business you already own.
Revenue growth is expensive, slow, and largely outside your control. Margin is none of those things. Every unit of cost we locate and remove is profit that was already yours — it simply wasn't visible. That is the entire objective, and it is what we are measured on.
- Margin measured where decisions are actually made
- Cost base rebuilt, not trimmed
- Pricing and mix decided on evidence, not instinct
- Working capital released from the balance sheet
- Surplus routed into Track 02 — where it compounds
Custom tools. One governed system.
Bespoke software and decision systems that put your company’s capital and cash flow to work — built on the same method we’ve run publicly for 15 years, with Swiss discipline and institutional risk control.
Cash-Flow Command
Custom dashboards that map, forecast and stress-test your cash flow — so you always know how much capital is truly idle, how much must stay liquid, and what can safely be put to work.
- Live cash-position & runway dashboard
- 13-week rolling cash-flow forecast
- Seasonality & scenario stress-testing
- Liquidity buffer & covenant alerts
Capital Allocation System
The governed model that decides how idle cash is put to work — designed to beat the bond hurdle over time while keeping strict limits on how much capital is ever at risk.
- Bond-beating return objective
- Tiered liquidity: reserve / core / growth
- Position-sizing & concentration limits
- Fully documented allocation rationale
The Governor Risk Engine
An automated risk-regime monitor built into your system: it watches market trend and interest rates every week and de-risks the capital before drawdowns — the discipline behind zero forced liquidations.
- Weekly trend & rates regime check
- Automatic de-risking triggers
- Drawdown & downside modelling
- Board-ready executive reporting
The system is the product.
Every tool we build runs on the same engine: concentrated, conviction-driven allocation with documented reasoning, sizing logic and exit discipline behind every decision — and a public record to prove it.
See the Track RecordEvery build includes concentration control, drawdown monitoring, and quarterly narrative reporting for your board.
Human judgment. Machine precision.
Artificial intelligence lets us build and run bespoke capital tools faster — but every decision retains human conviction and accountability at its core.
Intelligent Screening
Systematic filtering of the investable universe by quality, valuation, momentum and risk — the analytical core wired into your tool, updated continuously.
Scenario Simulation
Multi-variable stress testing before any material capital decision. We define the downside before your company commits capital to the upside.
Continuous Monitoring
Real-time surveillance of earnings, macro signals and thesis-breaking events. The system acts only when it matters, avoiding reactive noise.
Executive Reporting
Complex analysis distilled into clear, defensible narratives your board and finance team can act on.
We deploy structured AI workflows to build and run more capital tooling, faster — while keeping every investment decision in human hands. The result: sharper systems, delivered with institutional clarity.
Book a Discovery CallA system proven in the open.
Before a single tool is built, you can inspect the method’s entire public record. Every position the system has taken is tracked independently — the winners and the losers.
How we work.
Institutional standards.
We don’t sell subscriptions to your company’s most important asset. Both tracks run on the same three stages — diagnose, build, operate — scoped to your business and priced as a fixed engagement, never as a percentage of your money.
- Full cost, margin & profit diagnostic
- True unit economics by product & client
- Accounting & systems assessment
- Profit opportunity map, quantified
- Written findings & 90-minute workshop
- Systems build & migration
- Ongoing finance operation
- Everything in Diagnostic
- Cost base & margin restructuring
- Accounting & business-data takeover
- Migration to a digital, AI-assisted stack
- Forecasting & scenario model built in
- Management reporting pack
- Team training & full documentation
- Fixed timeline & deliverables
- Everything in Rebuild
- Finance function run end to end
- Monthly close & management accounts
- Rolling 13-week cash forecast
- Continuous cost & margin surveillance
- Quarterly profit review with your board
- Direct line to the team
- Priority support (48h SLA)
- Cash-flow & idle-capital assessment
- What your capital earns vs. the bond hurdle
- Opportunity sizing & risk framing
- Written findings & recommendation
- 90-minute findings workshop
- Custom tool build
- Ongoing governed operation
- Everything in Discovery
- Custom cash-flow dashboard & forecast
- Governed allocation model — tuned to your liquidity needs
- The Governor risk engine, wired in
- Board-ready reporting templates
- Team onboarding & documentation
- Scenario & drawdown simulations
- Fixed timeline & deliverables
- Everything in Build
- Monthly governed allocation update
- Live risk-regime monitoring & alerts
- Software maintenance & updates
- Quarterly board review (on-site or remote)
- Direct line to the research team
- Full documentation archive
- Priority support (48h SLA)
- Multi-entity & consolidated view
- Enterprise tooling & access controls
- Dedicated build & integration
- Custom SLAs & governance
- Executive & board reporting
Primus Pilus Capital builds software and provides financial analysis, systems and methodology. We are not an investment adviser, a statutory auditor, or a licensed tax representative, and we do not manage, hold or take custody of client funds. Our engagements never assume responsibility for accounting periods closed before we were appointed. Your company retains full control of its capital and every decision.
Get in touch.
Questions about a diagnostic, a build, or the method itself — on either track. We reply within one business day.