I put a dollar number on the hours your business loses to busywork, then fix the ones worth fixing. Priced with your own math, explained in plain English, built by someone who runs seven businesses of his own.
The assessment is paid on purpose. You are buying the diagnosis and the math, not a sales pitch.
Quoting. Invoicing. Scheduling. Chasing the lead that texted on Tuesday. Answering the same nine questions. None of it is why you started the business, and all of it lands on you, because you are the only one who can be trusted with it.
You have probably heard AI can fix this. Then every pitch turns into buzzwords and a monthly bill with no math behind it. Here is my whole method in one sentence:
That order matters. We never automate a broken process. First we find where the hours actually go, then we cut the steps that should not exist, and only then does anything get automated.
You tell me the ugliest part of your week. I give you one straight idea to fix it, on the call, free. If that one idea is all you needed, take it and run.
My first question is what your time is worth per hour. I never guess it, because every dollar figure in your report gets built from it. Then I dig into how the work actually gets done and write it all up: every bottleneck, what it costs you a month, and what I would do about each one, ranked by what it saves against what it costs.
Sometimes it is a tool you already pay for, set up right. Sometimes it is a system we build, like GradeSlap when the problem is getting found. And when you want the whole thing built and run for you, the concierge retainer starts at $1,500 a month.
Example numbers for a single finding. Your report runs this exact math on every recommendation, using your hourly value, not an industry average. If a fix cannot beat its own cost, it does not get recommended.
And every fix has to do at least one of three things: make you money, save you time, or make what you sell better. Otherwise it stays out of the report.
GradeSlap grades how easy your business is to find everywhere a customer actually looks: Google, maps, reviews, and the AI answers people ask now instead of searching. Then we fix the failing grades and keep them fixed as the rules keep changing.
Not every business needs it, and your assessment will tell you honestly if you do not. But when the problem is that customers cannot find you, it is the strongest tool in the kit.
You do great work, and the customers already searching for it keep finding your competitors. We make you the business that shows up, without you buying ads.
You quote, invoice, schedule, and chase paperwork at night after doing the real work all day. We hand those hours back, without hiring an office manager.
Calls, texts, and form fills come in faster than you can answer, and the slow ones go cold. We make sure every lead gets a fast answer, without you living on your phone.
Your problem not on the list? That is exactly what the free call is for.
One conversation about how your work actually gets done. Then a written report: every bottleneck priced in your own numbers, and a ranked plan to fix the ones worth fixing. No dashboard to learn, no jargon to decode.
I take these a few at a time, because I spend my days running my own businesses. That is also why the advice works.
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Because free audits are sales pitches. This one is work product. You get the full diagnosis and the math whether or not you ever hire me for anything else, and if the best answer for a problem is a $30 tool you can set up yourself, the report says exactly that.
No. You talk about your business the way you would over coffee. I handle everything technical and report back in plain English. If a sentence in your report needs a glossary, I have failed.
Then the report says so, and you walk away knowing exactly where your hours go, which most owners have never seen on paper. I do not recommend fixes that fail their own math. That is the whole point of doing the math.
No. It is about the work nobody was hired to do: the quoting at 9 pm, the invoice chasing, the lead that sat for two days. The goal is giving you and your people their hours back, not shrinking the crew.
Our flagship product. It grades how easy your business is to find where customers look, then fixes what is failing and keeps it fixed. It comes up in an assessment when the bottleneck is getting found. See gradeslap.com.
Chris Cochran. I build and run real companies out of Oxford, Mississippi: healthcare, gaming, local services, and software. The systems I recommend are the ones my own businesses run on every day. See the portfolio.