What are your bottlenecks costing you?

Have an actual conversation with our AI for eight minutes. It works out what your current workflows cost you a year, how much of that time your people could get back for better work, and which parts should stay with a human.

Eight minutes, out loud. Needs a microphone.

Just talk to it for eight minutes

A real conversation, not a form. It asks about your week, writes down what you say as you say it, and tells you which parts of your admin to leave well alone. You'll need to let it use your microphone.

Nothing is sent to us unless you ask for it at the end.

What you get at the end

The report prices what your week costs, names what should stay with a person, and then does this: for each thing you said, it points at the written standard for fixing it, in plain words, with the first move you can make without anyone's help. Here is that part of the report for a typical four-person plumbing business.

A worked example

The standard for each thing you said

A written recipe for one job: what it must do, what it must never do, and the test that proves it. That is a build standard. Each one below is free to read and free to build to, yourself or with whoever you hand it to.

  1. 1. The phone

    “If I'm under a house the call goes to voicemail and they ring the next bloke.”

    What the standard does
    The phone gets answered when nobody can pick up. The caller is asked the same few things every time, and one job is written into your system, not a note someone has to retype.
    Stays with you
    The angry caller, and anything that becomes a negotiation
    First move
    Write down the three things you would want every caller asked, and the one rule for when to ring you anyway.

    Read the spec: Booked After Hours Hand it to whoever builds it.

  2. 2. Chasing money

    “Sunday night I go through Xero and text whoever's over 30 days.”

    What the standard does
    Overdue invoices get chased on a rhythm you set. It stops the moment they pay or dispute, and it never chases the wrong person.
    Stays with you
    Deciding when to stop asking and start escalating
    First move
    Write down your current rhythm (day 7, day 14, day 30) and the customers you would never want chased automatically.

    Read the spec: Debtor Chasing Hand it to whoever builds it.

  3. 3. Quoting

    “My prices are in my head and on a few old quotes.”

    What the standard does
    A job that already exists in your system turns into a draft quote, priced only from your own price list. Anything the list does not cover is parked for you, not guessed. You still press send.
    Stays with you
    The price, and reading whether the job is worth having
    First move
    Get your price list into one file with a date on it. That file is the whole foundation.

    Read the spec: Quote Out Hand it to whoever builds it.

  4. 4. Things that expire

    “The QBCC one catches me out every year.”

    What the standard does
    Every date you are accountable for (licences, insurances, inductions, certificates) is worked out from the rule that sets it. When the rule changes, the date changes with it. Somebody's name is on every one.
    Stays with you
    Doing the renewal, and the awkward call when it lapsed
    First move
    List every licence, insurance and certificate with its expiry and whose job it is.

    Read the spec: Compliance Calendar Hand it to whoever builds it.

Plan of action

  • ·Start with the phone. It needs nothing fixed first, and you will know within a few weeks whether it works.
  • ·Chasing money is next. It can run alongside the first one.
  • ·Things that expire follows once the first one is running. It is real, but smaller.
  • ·Quoting waits on its first move: get your price list into one file with a date on it. That file is the whole foundation. Do that now and the build can follow.

Illustrative. The quotes are what a four-person plumbing business might say; yours will be your own words.

This is not about replacing anyone

The cost sits with the workflow, never with the person running it. Every business has work that is beneath the people currently doing it: the Sunday-night invoicing, the calls returned from a ladder, the quote that went quiet. Hand that to a machine and the same people get their week back for the work only a person can do, winning the job, pricing it properly, looking after the customer who needs looking after. The diagnosis is explicit about which parts those are, and it will not recommend automating them.

And the interview is run by a real voice agent, on the same engine that answers our clients' phones, because that is the honest way to demonstrate it. If it cannot hold a sensible eight-minute conversation with you about your own business, it has no business answering your phone. Prefer to type? That path gives you the identical report.

It is also a blood test rather than a diagnosis. It tells you where the time is going and roughly how much a machine could take. It does not tell you which software, in what order, wired into what, at what price. That is the $500 AI Strategy & Audit, credited in full against any work that follows.

The numbers come from the same formulas we use in that session, so they will not change when a human looks at them.