The ten days
Two hours of your time, start to finish
The audit is built so your team barely feels it. One kickoff, view-only access to what you already use, and a debrief. Everything between those is my work, not yours.
Day 1
Kickoff, 90 minutes the $4,500 starts here
You walk me through what your team actually does in a week and where it jams. I ask a lot of questions about the boring parts, because the boring parts are where the hours hide.
Then you hand over view-only access to the tools you already run. No admin rights, no changes to anything.
Days 2 to 7
I go count
I trace the real path of work through your stack: what gets done twice, what gets rebuilt every month, what a tool you're paying for already covers. Ninety days of shipped work against what your team says each piece takes, with the waiting time read off your timestamps.
You get one note from me around day 5 with what I'm seeing so far, so a wrong read gets corrected early rather than at the debrief. Other than that your team hears nothing.
Days 8 and 9
The blueprints get written
Each system on the kill list gets a blueprint detailed enough to hand to any developer: what it does, what it connects to, what it costs to run, and how you'd know it's working.
Day 10
Debrief, 30 minutes
I hand over all five documents plus the recorded walkthrough, and answer whatever the documents raised. If you want a build, we scope it here. If you don't, you still keep everything.
What it costs
Real prices, listed. The fifteen-minute call is free and nothing is charged until the kickoff.
The Marketing Time Audit
$4,500
10 business days · 2 hours of your time
The map, the ranked list, the blueprints, the tool review, and the recorded walkthrough. Yours to keep whatever you do next.
- Credited in full toward your first build
- Unconditional refund
- View-only access, nothing moved or changed
First build
$12,000 to $18,000
Scoped from the audit, target 30 days
The top item off your kill list, built, documented, and handed over running. Price depends on what the blueprint says, which is why the blueprint comes first.
- Built in accounts you own
- Documented for whoever maintains it next
- Your audit fee comes off the total
Or free. Four firms this month get the audit at no cost and the build at half, in exchange for a case study. See the founding client program.
After that. If you want a new system built each month off the same ranked list, that's a conversation worth having once your first build is running and you can see what it actually returned. I'd rather price it against something real than guess at it here.
refund
The refund has no conditions
Read the documents, decide they weren't worth it, tell me, and the money goes back. You keep the documents. There's no form, no measurement dispute, and no version of this where I argue with you about whether it counted.