Fifteen-minute review
A short call to understand how you work and whether the Audit is the right next step. No pitch. By the end you will know whether there is a problem here worth diagnosing.
Free · no obligationTime Leak Audit
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Time Leak Audit™
A business automation audit maps repeated administration, estimates its time and cost, and ranks the changes worth considering. My Time Leak Audit starts from £950 and gives you a report and recommendation before separately scoped Process Design or implementation.
At a glance
- What it is
- A structured audit of how the admin in your business actually happens
- What you leave with
- A map, an annual cost, and a ranked list of what to fix first
- Your time
- Under two hours in total
- Price
- From £950, fixed and agreed before the work starts
The problem
You have already
tried fixing this.
You bought the project management tool. You connected the apps. You hired a virtual assistant for a few months. Six months later you are handling the same tasks, still working evenings, still wondering why the admin never quite goes away.
The reason is not the tools. It is that nobody mapped the actual problem. Without a diagnosis you fix the wrong things: you automate the task that takes thirty minutes a week and leave the one that takes three hours every day.
The Time Leak Audit is a structured look at how the work in your business really happens, for founders and professional services firms who want to know, with numbers, where the time goes and whether fixing it is worth the money.
A diagnosis first. Anyone who recommends a tool before mapping your business is selling that tool.
What you leave with
A map, a number,
and a decision.
Everything below is in the report. It is yours whether or not you ever work with me again.
In the report
- A clear map of how your business actually runs, and where the time leaks
- The estimated annual cost of those hours, at your own rate
- The top three to five opportunities, ranked by impact rather than by ease
- A recommendation on whether building anything makes financial sense, and what it would involve
- An honest verdict: if there is nothing worth automating, you will hear that too
What it is not
- A software demo, or a recommendation to buy a platform
- A migration plan away from the tools you already pay for
- A retainer, a package, or a commitment to anything afterwards
- A report you need a consultant to interpret
From £950. One-off, fixed, agreed before the work starts. Under two hours of your time. I do the mapping, the analysis and the financial modelling.
In practice
What the Audit decides, and what comes next
| Phase | What you leave with |
|---|---|
| Audit, from £950 | A map of the current work, estimates and assumptions, ranked opportunities and a recommendation. |
| Process Design, separately priced | Detailed steps, data, permissions, exceptions and acceptance checks for the selected change. |
| Implementation, quoted after design | The agreed build, testing, documentation and practical handover. |
An estimate of time recovered is not a time-study result or a promise of extra revenue. Use the full payback calculation to compare the quotation, ongoing costs and benefits you can realise.
How the Audit runs
Three stages.
Under two hours of your time.
You talk about your week. I do the mapping, the numbers and the report.
The Audit conversation
One structured conversation about your actual week: clients, admin, reporting, billing and follow-up. I use your account of the work, examples and available records to estimate the time, and flag assumptions that need checking.
Sixty to ninety minutesThe report
A short report separates observations from estimates and sets out the ranked opportunities. We review the findings within the agreed time allocation. If a build makes sense I tell you what it would look like. If it does not, I tell you that instead.
Within 48 hoursAfter the Audit, Process Design and implementation are separate phases with their own fixed fees. You decide after each one, and you can stop at any point.
Who it fits
Business automation for people
whose time creates value.
The Audit works best when your hours have a clear monetary value and admin is eating into them. The clearest cases:
Not sure whether it applies to you? That is what the free fifteen minutes is for. No Audit needed to find out.
Evidence
What one Audit uncovered
≈12 → <1hours of admin in a busy month, at a payroll firm serving around 200 client companies
Premium Paye
At Premium Paye in France, invoice preparation, direct debits and online onboarding were connected. The founder reports around twelve hours of admin in a busy month with new clients before the change, and under one hour now across those processes.
Read the case study“Anne looked at how I was working and spotted opportunities I hadn’t considered. She recommended solutions I didn’t even know existed and helped me understand what would make the biggest difference to my business.”
Before we talk
What people ask
before booking.
The Audit is a diagnosis, not a sales step. These are the questions that come up most often on the free call.
Is the Audit worth it if I already know I have a problem?
Knowing you have a problem and knowing what it costs you are different things. The Audit puts a number on it, ranks the fixes by impact, and tells you whether building anything makes financial sense.
Without that, you are guessing at priorities. And the guess is easy to get wrong, because the task that feels worst is often not the one that takes the most hours.
Is what you build AI?
Mostly not. Much of what I build is automation: rules that run on their own, such as preparing invoices from recorded work or creating a follow-up task when a client goes quiet. I add AI only where a step involves reading or writing language, like sorting emails or drafting a reply, and a person checks anything that reaches a client or touches money. AI vs automation: what is the difference?
What if the Audit shows there is nothing worth automating?
Then you will hear that. The report includes a recommendation either way. If the numbers do not justify a build, I will say so, and you will have saved yourself the cost of tools you do not need.
How much of my time does it take?
The free introductory call is fifteen minutes. The paid Audit is designed to need under two hours of your time, including the main conversation, any short preparation and the findings review. We agree that allocation at the start; the main conversation runs up to ninety minutes within it.
Do I have to commit to anything after the Audit?
No. The Audit is a standalone piece of work with its own fixed fee. If the findings point to a build, I will explain what Process Design and implementation would involve and what they would cost. The decision is yours.
We already use Monday, Asana or HubSpot and it did not stick. How is this different?
The problem can involve both the process and the tool. I map how the work happens, identify repeated steps, check the existing setup and examine what your team needs to maintain it.
That is what the Audit diagnoses. A tool cannot do it, because a tool does not know which of your tasks need your judgement.
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