What the invoices have to show
If twenty-four months of billings are customer prints and hourly or piece-price jobs, you have a job shop even if the website shows a branded widget. Proprietary product manufacturer is the other noun. Selling a job shop versus a product company is the seller-side split. CNC machine shops are a common home.
Census CBP 2023 counted 284,452 manufacturing establishments, and 68.4% have fewer than 20 employees (Source: Census CBP). Most of those shops are capacity businesses. They are not unsellable.
Twenty-four months of billings decide. If they are customer prints and hourly or piece-price jobs, you have a job shop even if the website shows a branded widget. Job cost that survives quote-versus-actual is how the earnings base stays honest. Most U.S. plants are small capacity shops. They clear on SDE when the iron and the estimator story are honest. They do not clear on a search-study print.
How it works still wants the invoice mix. The compare owner is the process home. The CNC hub is a common sub-sector home. This page stays on the capacity-shop noun. Jason Taken will not call job shops unsellable.
How a job shop usually clears
On job cost that survives quote-versus-actual, and on SDE when the file is owner-operated. BizBuySell’s manufacturing median remains 2.75x SDE (Source: BizBuySell). SBA 7(a) still caps at $5 million with a 10% injection (Source: SBA). A search-study EBITDA print is the wrong room.
Twenty-four months of billings decide. If they are customer prints and hourly or piece-price jobs, you have a job shop even if the website shows a branded widget. Job cost that survives quote-versus-actual is how the earnings base stays honest. Most U.S. plants are small capacity shops. They clear on SDE when the iron and the estimator story are honest. They do not clear on a search-study print. One catalog SKU does not flip the label if contribution is a sidecar. Hybrids should split invoices.
How it works still wants the invoice mix. FAQ owns the questions. The compare owner is the process home. Jason Taken will not call job shops unsellable.
What the teaser must not do
It must not call a capacity shop a platform because one SKU exists. Hybrids should split contribution.
| Label | What the customer buys | Typical base |
|---|---|---|
| Job shop | Hours / process | Often SDE |
| Product manufacturer | Owned SKU | Often EBITDA |
| Hybrid | Both — split the invoices | Name the mix |
Who usually clears a capacity shop?
Individual and SBA operators often clear shops that fit the 7(a) box when the iron and the estimator story are honest. Strategics pay for a specified SKU they cannot staff. Search-study EBITDA prints are the wrong room for a pure hours business. A missing job-cost file is how buyers discount the earnings base. One catalog SKU does not flip the label if contribution is a sidecar. Hybrids should split invoices.
Most U.S. plants are small capacity shops. They are not unsellable. How it works still wants twenty-four months of billings before anyone quotes. FAQ owns the questions. The glossary hands you to the compare owner, then to a confidential intro call. Jason Taken is a business broker.
If the homepage shows a branded product and the invoices do not, believe the invoices. Split the sidecar SKU in the CIM so a product buyer does not feel baited and a capacity buyer does not overpay for a logo. The compare owner page keeps both labels honest.
A capacity shop with a real second chair and an honest job-cost file can still be a clean SDE process. A capacity shop with a 12-hour estimator and no job-cost file is a harder SDE process, not an unsellable one. Most U.S. plants look like the first or the second, not like a catalog OEM. The compare owner keeps the labels. The 2.75x SDE median is the room many of these files actually sit in. This page stays on the hours noun.
Believe the invoices. The homepage is marketing. The billings are the label.
What this page will not do
It will not call job shops unsellable. Jason Taken is a business broker. The glossary sends you to the owner. After the noun is straight, book a confidential intro call.