One week, looked at honestly, for $750.

What actually happens

I sit with the week as it runs, not as the org chart says it runs. That means the re-typing, the copy-paste between two systems that don't talk, the message someone sends every morning because there is no other way to know the job is done, and the report that takes an afternoon because the numbers live in four places.

• A working session. Usually on-site, an hour or two, watching the job get done rather than being told about it.
• A map of the week. Every recurring block, who does it, how long it takes, and what it depends on.
• The leaks, costed. Hours per month against what those hours are worth, so the list sorts itself rather than being sorted by whoever complains loudest.
• A build order. What to automate first, what to automate later, and — this matters — what to leave alone because a person is the right answer.
• Options with prices. Each item costed against the same published rates everyone else pays.

What you get to keep

A written document. Yours, plainly. It names the systems by name, it says what would have to be true for each fix to work, and it is specific enough that a different developer could price the same work from it. That is deliberate — a plan you can only execute with me is a sales document, not an audit.

Who it is for

Small Phoenix-area businesses where the work is fine and everything around the work is the problem. Shops, trades, service businesses, small offices — anywhere the schedule, the quoting, the invoicing, the follow-up and the record-keeping have grown one workaround at a time and now take longer than the job.

It is not for you if you already know exactly what you want built. In that case skip the audit and ask for a quote on the build directly. I would rather say that than sell a week of looking at something you have already looked at.

What it is not

• Not a software demo. Nothing is being sold to you during it.
• Not a licence. There is no platform underneath this that you end up renting.
• Not a retainer in disguise. It is one fee, once, and it ends with a document.

After the audit

Three things can happen, and all three are fine. You take the plan and do it yourself. You take the plan to somebody else. Or we build the first item — usually one block of the week, from $4,500, two to three weeks — and the audit fee comes off it. Nothing renews on its own and nothing carries a minimum term.