Step one · The assessment
What your recurring decisions cost to prepare.
Five minutes, on your own, no call. You answer a handful of questions about the recurring decisions in your business and get back an annual hours figure, a dollar figure, and a ranked list of where the preparation cost sits. It will tell you when the answer is no.
The assessment
Step 1 of 5 · Business
About the business
Three questions so the numbers come out at your scale rather than a generic one.
Estimates only. Figures come from the inputs on this page and the assumptions listed with the results, all shown rather than hidden. Nothing here is a measurement of your systems. Privacy
The offer
Free, and it will tell you when the answer is no
You answer a handful of questions about the recurring decisions in your business, usually about who to pursue, what to bid and where to spend. You get back an annual hours figure, a dollar figure and a ranked list of where the preparation cost sits. It will tell you when the answer is no.
Nothing connects to your systems and nobody has to prepare anything. The questions are about how often a decision comes up, what has to be true before somebody can make it, and roughly how long each of those steps takes. The arithmetic is shown, not just the conclusion, so you can argue with it in front of your own team.
- Price
- Free
- Terms
- Right now
- How long
- About five minutes
What you get back
- Estimated annual assembly cost
- Recoverable range, discounted for readiness
- Decisions ranked by cost and tractability
- Where not to start
What happens next
Usually nothing, and that is a real outcome
Plenty of people get their number, decide the preparation is already cheap enough, and go do something else. Some take the number and build it themselves. Both are fine. The assessment does not commit you to a line map.
Questions
Before you ask
What do I actually get from the assessment?
An annual hours figure and a dollar figure for what it costs your team to prepare its recurring decisions, plus those decisions ranked by cost and by how much of the preparation is structured enough to hand over. It is a number you can take into your own leadership meeting, and it is yours whether or not anything else follows.
Do I have to talk to anyone to use it?
No. It runs on this page, it takes about five minutes, and you get the headline figure without entering anything about yourself. An email address unlocks the ranked breakdown, and that is the only point at which we know you were here.
What if the number comes back small?
Then you have saved yourself a line map, and we would rather you knew in five minutes than in two weeks. A small number usually means the preparation is already cheap, the decision is rarer than it feels, or the fix is a better spreadsheet rather than a build.
Do I need data or system access for the assessment?
No. The assessment runs on what the people who do the work already know: how often the decision comes up, what has to be true before they can make it, and roughly how long each of those steps takes. Nothing connects to your systems at this stage.
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Got your number? The next step is a line map.
The estimate says where the preparation cost is concentrated. It does not say which of those decisions is buildable in your systems, in what order, or what a working version looks like. That is what the line map is for.