SERVVIAN® Financial Intelligence Glossary

FALIB® Forecast Analysis for Labor-Intensive Business

FALIB® is SERVVIAN’s report suite for analyzing labor-intensive businesses through forecast-driven cost structure, revenue stream alignment, breakeven rate discipline, and job-specific bid support.

About the FALIB® Suite

The FALIB® Suite is built to support companies operating with labor-sensitive pricing, including firms with SOLD labor revenue, Pass-Thru support revenue, or a hybrid structure using both.

At the core of the suite are FALIB-Mr, FALIB-Sr, and FALIB-Jr. Together, these reports help clarify how labor obligations, fringe exposure, revenue structure, and breakeven discipline interact before profit is ever stacked on top.

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Core Report

FALIB-Mr

FALIB-Mr means Master Report. It is designed for companies operating with a SOLD labor revenue stream only.

This makes it especially relevant for businesses that primarily generate revenue from their own sold labor and may be partially paying Davis-Bacon wages or other prevailing wage obligations.

FALIB-Mr can help identify the ripple impact of fringe shortfalls across the labor cost structure.

Best fit: companies with one primary revenue stream based on SOLD labor.
Core Report

FALIB-Sr

FALIB-Sr means Senior Report. It is built for businesses that operate with both SOLD labor and Pass-Thru support revenue streams, or for firms that need visibility into a hybrid model.

This makes FALIB-Sr a strong fit for businesses such as general contractors that may carry a blend of direct sold labor and pass-thru support activity.

Hybrid companies may require separate breakeven hourly rates for SOLD labor and Pass-Thru support labor.

Best fit: the most universal FALIB® report. Designed for companies with SOLD labor, Pass-Thru support, or hybrid revenue structures. In most cases, FALIB-Sr is the preferred report unless a company operates strictly under SOLD labor with prevailing wage considerations, where FALIB-Mr may be more appropriate.
Job-Level Report

FALIB-Jr

FALIB-Jr means Job Report. It can only be produced after completing either FALIB-Mr or FALIB-Sr first and then carrying that forecast analysis into a specific estimate.

Once a company completes its master or senior report structure and then finishes an estimate for a job to be bid, FALIB-Jr translates that higher-level forecast intelligence into a job-facing report.

Best fit: post-analysis, estimate-ready job review that extends forecast logic from Mr or Sr into the actual bid.
Key Cost Term

Net Rate

The Net Rate, sometimes referred to as the raw rate, is the true labor-related multiplier that must be understood in order to budget payroll cost correctly within the forecast structure.

Companies that do not clearly understand their net rate can misread actual labor exposure and create pricing distortion that later shows up as margin leakage or undercovered labor assumptions.

Key Cost Term

Raw Rate

The Raw Rate is another way of referring to the Net Rate. In SERVVIAN® language, this should be treated as the same core concept unless you are intentionally distinguishing terminology for audience clarity.

Because this rate influences labor budgeting and breakeven support, it plays a major role in how forecast analysis should be interpreted before pricing and profit are layered into the final estimate.

Key Cost Term

Breakeven Rate

The Breakeven Rate is the rate that covers everything up to the point of breakeven. It is not profit.

For some hybrid companies with two revenue streams, there may need to be one breakeven hourly rate for SOLD labor and another for Pass-Thru support labor.

Profit is then layered above those rates only after the breakeven structure is fully supported.

GovCon Relevance

Double Counting Control

In GovCon environments, one of the most important disciplines is ensuring that cost components are fully covered without being counted twice.

FALIB-Mr and FALIB-Sr help structure the underlying breakeven rates, while FALIB-Jr carries that logic into the job-level estimate.

Together, these reports support a cleaner breakdown that helps ensure all required elements are covered while avoiding duplication inside the rate structure.

Revenue Structure

SOLD Labor Revenue vs. Pass-Thru Support Revenue

SOLD Labor Revenue refers to revenue earned directly from labor sold by the company. Pass-Thru support revenue refers to support-related activity that may require its own treatment within the pricing model.

Understanding which revenue stream is present matters because it affects whether a company is better aligned to FALIB-Mr, FALIB-Sr, or a hybrid framework that requires multiple breakeven paths before profit is applied.

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