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We are too dependent on one customer — what should we do?

Concentration is a survival number. It is also, often, a contribution number — the one customer may be the only one that pays.

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The short answer

Revenue concentration is only half the story. If the large customer also contributes, diversification that replaces them with worse-margin work is a downgrade. If they do not contribute, dependence is already a margin problem. Rank concentration and contribution together, then decide whether to deepen, reprice, or replace.

How to tell this is actually your problem

The move that usually makes it worse: Winning any other logo at any margin so the percentage looks better.

When Percision is the wrong tool

Percision is the wrong tool if you already know the answer and only need execution capacity, or if the business is pre-revenue — then the constraint is evidence about the market, not analysis of your own figures.

If it is your problem and you want the analysis on your numbers, the live page is https://percision.app/we-are-too-dependent-on-one-customer. The engine routes this question to Portfolio Strategy. Metrics that decide it: revenue concentration · contribution concentration.

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Questions people ask

When is Percision the wrong tool?

Percision is the wrong tool if you already know the answer and only need execution capacity, or if the business is pre-revenue — then the constraint is evidence about the market, not analysis of your own figures.

What share is 'too dependent'?

There is no universal threshold. The test is: if they left this quarter, would the plan still be the plan? If not, you are dependent, whatever the percentage.

Should we fire them?

Only if contribution is negative and you can survive the hole. More often the work is to reprice, to change the mix of work they buy, or to grow the rest of the book on purpose.

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