Cost Rates Advisor
The industry's leading AI-powered budgeted hourly rates, cost analysis, and benchmarking software that helps you price with confidence, win more work, and increase profitability.

Print Business Advisor
AI-powered financial and operational analysis and benchmarking software that evaluates your business, highlights improvement opportunities, and benchmarks you against industry peers.

Consulting Services
Expert help that spans the entire organization including sales, estimating, pricing, customer service, order entry, inventory, costing, invoicing, accounting, software, and technology.

Litigation Support
We support you and your attorneys at every stage of a business dispute with expertise in best practices, business processes, MIS/IT, costing, pricing, and other key issues.

Webinars, Seminars & Speaking
Educational sessions on estimating, pricing, costing, benchmarking, processes, MIS/ERP, financial ratios, and business management.

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About Profectus
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Features

Benchmark against other companies
Benchmark your labor, factory, and overhead costs and BHRs against other companies.

Track your performance year after year
Benchmark income statements, balance sheets, and other operational information year-over-year.

Benchmark your Income Statements
Quickly evaluate your Income Statements and know exactly where to focus to improve profitability.

Turn Your Balance Sheet into a Decision Tool
Transform your balance sheet from a static financial statement into a powerful management and decision-making tool.

Employee Benchmarks That Drive Profitability
Payroll is the largest controllable expense and one of the hardest to manage without benchmarks.

Liquidity and Activity Protects Cash & Profits
Liquidity & Activity shows how efficiently you convert sales into cash and assets are working.

AI-driven analysis of your business health
AI analysis of your business financials and operation health with in clear, actionable insights.

Fast and easy
No accounting knowledge needed. Update your budgeted hourly rates in just minutes!

Satisfaction guarantee or your money back!
If you're not happy within the first 30 days, for any reason, we'll refund all of your money.

FREE expert consulting support
You receive support from a real live Profectus industry business consultant, for any reason.

Makes Spreadsheets and Forms Obsolete
Cost Rates Advisor is considerably easier, faster, and more reliable than spreadsheets.

Secure, Protected, and Confidential
Profectus employs strict security policies to your account and data.

Works anywhere you do 24/7/365
Cost Rates Advisor runs in the cloud. Use it anywhere with a browser and internet.

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Financial and operational analysis & benchmarking software for printing and packaging businesses.

Transform complex financial and business
data into clear, actionable insights.

Print Business Advisor, built exclusively for printing and packaging companies, applies AI-driven analysis to your financial and operational information to assess overall business health, identify areas for improvement, and benchmark your performance against industry peers and profit leaders.

Get instant feedback on your firm's financial health

The Printing Industry's Trusted Benchmark
For Over 100 Years

For more than a century, the Printing Industries of America's (PIA) Financial Ratio Studies set the benchmark for measuring financial performance across the printing industry. Each year, hundreds of firms used the ratios to compare results, identify inefficiencies, and improve profitability.

In 2018, Profectus Inc. and PIA modernized this trusted resource with the launch of The Performance Ratios, transitioning from static reports to a dynamic, web-based benchmarking platform.

That evolution continues today with the AI-assisted Print Business Advisor a fully automated system delivering real-time financial and operational analysis, benchmarking, and insights to help printing and packaging companies strengthen performance and profitability.

What you get

100+ industry ratios & KPIs
Profitability, operations, liquidity, payroll, productivity, inventory, value-added, balance sheet items, and more.

Effectiveness scores & graphs
See strengths, expose risks, and pinpoint opportunities with clear, decision-ready visuals.

Multi-year trends
Track changes year-over-year and anticipate challenges before they impact results.

Custom benchmarking
Select comparison criteria for tailored, apples-to-apples analysis against industry peers and profit leaders.

AI-powered insight
Spot performance gaps and get recommendations that help owners, controllers, and CFOs act with confidence.

Cloud-based & always updated
No installs or maintenance. Access anywhere - office, home, or on the road.

Measure your financial health now!

See your business the way the numbers do

Simply provide your financial statements, balance sheets, and operating data through our secure cloud platform. In moments, AI transforms your information into a clear picture of your company's financial health - with effectiveness scores, intuitive dashboards, and practical recommendations for improvement.

Fast analysis
Automated interpretation of 100+ industry ratios and KPIs, without spreadsheets or manual crunching.

Peer benchmarking
Compare against other printing and packaging firms by size, process, region, or market segment.

Actionable next steps
Every metric includes what it means, how it's calculated, and practical guidance to improve performance.

See How Your Printing Business Really
Stacks Up Against The Profit Leaders

Benchmark your company against industry peers and profit leaders and replace guesswork with clarity. See precisely where you outperform the market and where hidden gaps are eroding profit, using real industry data tailored to printing and packaging businesses.

Gain side-by-side comparisons across every major performance area that drives results:

Income Statements
Balance Sheets
Liquidity & Activity
Employees
Sales & Marketing
Spoilage & Waste

Benchmark your company now!

Benchmark Your Income Statements Against Industry Peers and Profit Leaders

Print Business Advisor converts your income statement into clear percent-of-sales and percent-of-value-added benchmarks, showing exactly how your performance compares across every major cost and profit category.

You can quickly evaluate materials, factory costs, SG&A, gross profit, and net profit to instantly spot cost imbalances, overhead creep, and margin leaks - and know precisely where to focus to improve profitability.

Benchmark your income statements now!

Employee Benchmarks That Drive Profitability

Payroll is typically the largest controllable expense and one of the hardest to manage without benchmarks. Print Business Advisor turns your employee and training data into clear benchmarks that show exactly how labor impacts profitability.

You can see how payroll, staffing mix, productivity, and training investment compare to industry peers and profit leaders - revealing overstaffing, inefficiencies, and growth constraints.

By measuring results and performance per employee, Print Business Advisor helps you make confident decisions that improve productivity, control payroll, and build a more profitable workforce.

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Track Progress Over Time
With Year-Over-Year Analysis

Financial Performance Across Multiple Years

Enter income statements, balance sheets, and other operational information for multiple periods
Compare your financial performance, ratios, and benchmarks across multiple years
Identify trends in your company's financial performance over the years
Helps you predict the direction of future financial performance
Proactively recognize and correct potential financial issues

AI That Simplifies Financial Intelligence

AI-powered features automatically interpret your company's data to accelerate analysis and uncover patterns you might otherwise miss. It identifies underperforming areas, reveals cost and efficiency gaps, and helps owners, controllers, and CFOs make smarter, data-driven decisions with confidence.

Fast. Easy. Secure.

Getting started takes minutes. Intuitive online forms, built-in error checks, and AI assistance make data entry simple. Your results are processed instantly, and your data is always protected with enterprise-grade encryption and strict confidentiality policies. No installation. No updates. Access from any device - anytime, anywhere.

Trusted. Proven. Industry-Built.

For over 30 years, Profectus Inc. has helped printing and packaging companies across North America strengthen performance, control costs, and grow profitably. In partnership with the Printing Industries of America, Profectus transformed the industry's long-standing Financial Ratios program into a fully automated, web-based system - creating Print Business Advisor, the modern standard for financial benchmarking.
Anaylize my business now!

Join hundreds of other users.

For decades, the Financial Ratios program has been a trusted resource for the industry. By analyzing data from hundreds of printing and related graphic arts firms, this program has consistently helped organizations nationwide boost their bottom line and identify operational inefficiencies.

Provide a clear picture of our financial performance.
Andrew, CFO

5 / 5 stars

The financial ratios provide a clear picture of our company's financial performance.

Benchmarks our performance against industry profit leaders.
Kathy, Controller

5 / 5 stars

The financial ratios help our management and shareholders benchmark our company's performance against similar companies and the industry profit leaders.

Proactively predict our future performance.
T. Deltric, President

4 / 5 stars

The ratios allow us to predict the future performance of our company so we can proactively make improvement adjustments.

Assess the strength of our company.
Robert T., CFO

4.8 / 5 stars

The income statement, balance sheet and cash flow ratios provide vital information about the strengths of our company, and where we need to make improvements, before its too late.

No waiting. Measure your company's financial health immediately!

Print Business Advisor is a web-based application that runs in the Cloud.
Print Business Advisor can be accessed from anywhere, anytime including your office, home, accountant's office, or favorite coffee house.
There's no software to install, no downloads, and you automatically receive the latest enhancements at no extra cost.
You can use a PC, MAC, notebook, iPad, or tablet with internet access and a compatible browser. (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari)

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Profectus, Inc. · Sarasota, Florida · United States · Phone: 1-888-868-8662
Business management consultants specializing in the printing & packaging industry since 1993.

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