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Most agency owners have no idea what their numbers actually look like. Not because they're bad at business, but because nobody in this industry talks about it openly.
In this video Ryan pulls back the curtain on the Webris P&L, walking through real revenue mix, cost of goods sold, operating expenses, owner compensation, and net profit, all broken down as percentages so you can benchmark your own agency against it.
This started as an internal Blueprint Training webinar and turned into one of the most honest conversations about running a digital agency that Ryan has ever put on camera.
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Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro: why Ryan decided to open up the Webris P&L publicly
0:44 – Caveat: AI is about to make a lot of these numbers obsolete
1:32 – Blueprint Training relaunch announcement: the One Person Agency
2:18 – What the new Blueprint Training actually is, agent stacks built on proven SOPs
3:43 – Why every person on the team needs to learn this technology now
5:03 – Why revenue percentages are more useful than raw numbers
5:46 – How Claude rebuilt this presentation live before the webinar
6:38 – Accounting 101: cost of goods sold vs operating expenses
8:13 – Why most agencies book everything into one expense bucket and why that's a problem
9:06 – Gross profit explained: what it costs to actually deliver your service
10:44 – Q&A: should you be accounting for gross profit separately?
11:31 – Accountant recommendation and why you should not be doing this yourself
12:00 – Revenue mix breakdown: SEO 66%, Meta 19%, PPC 8%
12:59 – Why Ryan pivoted to pushing Facebook ads 70% of the time
13:42 – The real tradeoff: Facebook ads churn at 40% vs SEO at 2-4%
14:26 – How to use Windsor AI and Claude to show SEO attribution and ROI
15:56 – Should you focus more on ads if SEO is getting harder to sell?
16:43 – Where Ryan sees the offer going: $8K/month for everything as a full marketing department 17:29 – Cost of goods sold breakdown: content, PPC, links, development, software
19:03 – What Claude says healthy agency COGS should look like (25-30%)
19:44 – Gross margin at 70% and what that means for how you run the business
20:35 – Operating expense breakdown: contractors, paid media, internal marketing 22:15 – Why Ryan spends 12% of top line revenue on his own marketing
23:44 – Software, staff bonuses, and miscellaneous expenses
24:31 – Team structure: why everyone is a contractor and nobody is W-2
25:22 – How Caesar's equity stake and distributions work
26:10 – True net profit: 32% after distributions and bonuses
26:55 – S-Corp structure and how Ryan minimizes business taxes
27:38 – Where agencies lose and bleed money
28:22 – How AI is about to increase margins by rolling up subcontractors
29:44 – Why you should never be living off the top line of the business
30:28 – Q&A: best way to hire someone to implement Blueprint Training and manage clients
31:22 – Q&A: how to think about team structure as AI changes everything
33:55 – Why small agile agencies have a massive advantage over 300 person shops right now
36:23 – The jobs that are going to get rolled up first and who survives
37:42 – S-Corp and LLC structure explained in detail
40:29 – Q&A: how to handle Facebook ad spend on the P&L
42:03 – Q&A: are clients pushing back on pricing because of AI yet?
43:29 – Q&A: is the new Blueprint agent stack only for lawyers?
44:50 – Why subject matter expertise is what separates good AI output from slop
48:44 – Q&A: will old Blueprint Training videos still be available?
49:34 – Q&A: will you stop using WordPress?
51:05 – How the iterative prompting workflow actually works day to day 5
4:04 – Q&A: what Claude plan should you sign up for?
55:55 – Wrap up and Blueprint Training presale