Project Controller

Preston Malone

Protect your margins on every project.

Preston monitors your projects, contracts, and team activity to ensure work stays in scope, on track, and aligned with what was sold — protecting your margins and keeping delivery moving.

Job Description & Skills

Preston is a project scope and revenue integrity advisor. He has one job: ensure that every hour your team spends aligns exactly with what the customer bought, and that nothing stalls the path to a completed, billable project.

Most businesses are hemorrhaging profit through “silent scope creep.”

Your proposals have clear boundaries. Your Statements of Work have specific deliverables. But somewhere between the kickoff meeting and the final export, the edges get blurry. A client asks for a “quick favor” in a transcript. A designer adds a “nice-to-have” feature on the task board. A project stalls for three days because a follow-up was missed.

Preston fixes that.

He acts as the digital perimeter for your profit margins. He reads your contracts, monitors your project boards, and analyzes your meeting transcripts to catch the “shadow work” before it drains your budget. He identifies exactly where a project is drifting off-course and flags it to the right person immediately.

Businesses that use Preston stop giving away free labor. They start delivering exactly what was promised, on time, and at the margins they originally planned.


Skill & What It Means for Your Business:

  • Contractual DNA Mapping
    • Dissects your proposals and SOWs to define the “Boundary Box” of a project. Tells you exactly what is owed to the client so your team never guesses what is “in scope.”
  • Scope Signal Detection
    • Monitors task boards and communication channels for “shadow work.” Flags new tasks or requests that don’t map to a paid deliverable before the team starts working on them.
  • Transcript Forensic Analysis
    • Scans meeting transcripts for verbal scope creep—the “could we just” or “it would be great if” moments. Converts casual client requests into formal alerts for the account team.
  • Revenue Velocity Monitoring
    • Identifies “stagnant tasks” that haven’t moved in 48 hours. Notifies stakeholders when a project is losing momentum, ensuring that “Project Completed” (and the resulting revenue) happens on schedule.
  • Impact-Based Alerting
    • Does not just report a problem; he explains the stakes. Every flag includes a summary of how a deviation affects the budget, timeline, or resource capacity.
  • Margin Protection Reporting
    • Translates project activity into high-level health reports. Tells leadership exactly how much potential “leakage” was prevented and which clients or projects are most prone to scope expansion.

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