Build the engine. Recover the cash.
Temper Advisory works two ways. We build the sales engine that wins new customers on purpose — and through Temper Advisory Solutions, we recover profit already sitting inside your operation.
Growth on one side. Recovery on the other.
Most owners need both, and rarely at the same moment. Choose the side that matches where the pressure is today — the other is here when you need it.
The sales engine
A sales engine of strategy, processes, tools, people and marketing — built by someone who spent twenty-five years inside industrial manufacturing. This is the long game: winning customers you don't have yet.
Recover your cash
Expense reduction, specialized savings and tax incentives — recovered from spend and filings you've already made. Contingency-based, so the work pays for itself. Delivered at temperadvisorysolutions.com.
Business owners agree: profitability is a priority
Four services carry most of the recovery. Each one is a no-risk review of records you already keep — we only earn when you do. The full catalog lives on the solutions site.
Tariff recovery
Duty overpayments, misclassified HTS codes and refund programs on imports going back years. Cash back on goods already landed.
Shipping savings
Parcel and freight audits, carrier agreement renegotiation, accessorial and late-delivery credits. Same lanes, lower cost per shipment.
Tax credits & incentives
R&D credits, hiring and training incentives, cost segregation and state programs most CPAs never claim on your behalf.
Energy optimization
Utility billing errors, rate class corrections, supply procurement and efficiency rebates across every meter you operate.
Five parts, one engine
No piece is optional. Manufacturers who skip one — usually marketing, sometimes processes — end up with an expensive machine that won't start. Each pillar runs on the one before it.
Strategy
Decide which customers to win. Which segments deserve investment, which ones quietly drain margin, what the next three years actually look like.
Processes
Replace heroics with structure. A buyer's journey, qualification criteria, stage definitions and handoffs — so opportunities move without depending on one person's memory.
Tools
CRM that actually gets used. A website that does sales work. Dashboards leadership can trust. Infrastructure that serves the people, not the reverse.
People
Your technical team isn't the problem — they're a latent asset. Equip them with direction, tools and method. Augment with hunters only where the team genuinely can't do the work.
Marketing
Show up where buyers search. Generate demand the sales team doesn't have to manufacture. Fuel that doesn't depend on the owner's relationships from 1994.
Wider. Deeper. New.
Three kinds of growth. Most manufacturers see one. The engine produces all three — in sequence, not at once.
New customers in segments you've never sold to before. The hardest growth to deliver without a real engine — and the growth most CEOs mean when they say they want to grow.
More revenue from the customers you already have. Share of wallet, adjacent products, multi-year contracts replacing transactional orders. The fastest win, and where trust is earned.
Customers in your current segments who didn't know you existed. They were searching — for you, specifically — and going to competitors because your website couldn't close the loop.
If you've said one of these, we should talk
Let's build it
A 45-minute call. No deck. We'll work through where your engine runs, where it stalls, and where recoverable profit is hiding. Discovery is always free — engagements start when both of us say yes.