You don’t need to know which service to ask for.

Four things go wrong. Start with the one that sounds like your week — each page names the symptoms, the mechanisms underneath them, and what we would look at before proposing anything at all.

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Thirty minutes · no predetermined package

What people write in the box

first lines from a week of enquiries

LIVE

MON“Our reps keep a spreadsheet next to the CRM”and it holds the pricingCRM fit01

TUE“Marketing says forty, finance says thirty-one”same quarter, same questionnumbers02

WED“The lead sat in a queue for five hours”nothing reported a failuresystems03

THU“No product does what we do with pricing”four vendors have triedbuild it04

FRI“Honestly, we do not know which of these it is”that is the common onewe tell you—

4 problems, one first conversationyou do not have to pick correctly

Four problems, one conversation

picking wrong costs nothing

Start with what is actually broken

The four, and what sits underneath each one.

Every engagement starts in one of these. They overlap more often than not, which is why the first conversation is a diagnosis rather than a scoping call.

Our CRM doesn't fit

Stages nobody uses, fields nobody fills, and a team working around the software instead of in it. Usually a process that was never written down, wearing a product name.

We can't trust our numbers

Four systems, one question, four answers. Almost always a capture and definition problem rather than a reporting one — and a better dashboard makes it faster, not truer.

Our systems don't connect

A lead arrives and nothing routes it. Nothing in the stack is broken on its own; the seams between them were never designed, and their failures are silent.

It needs to be built

The process is specific enough that every demo ends in a workaround. The part that makes you competitive is the part no platform covers, so it lives in a spreadsheet.

What travels

Six things that are true whichever one it is.

01The workaround names the constraintEvery operation has a spreadsheet running alongside the system. What is in it tells you exactly what the system cannot hold.

02Two systems hold the same customerAnd nothing decides which one wins. That single unanswered question causes more damage than any missing feature.

03Configuration usually winsMost of what looks like a platform limit is a configuration nobody attempted. We say so when it is, which is more often than is comfortable to admit.

04The missing metric is a missing fieldNo reporting layer computes a value from an event that was never recorded. Most reporting projects are capture projects that have not noticed yet.

05Silence is not successA seam that fails quietly looks exactly like a quiet week. Everything we build says something when it breaks.

06Documentation is part of the buildAn undocumented system is a single point of failure with a notice period. That is not a deliverable at the end; it is a condition of shipping.

If none of them quite fit

Picking the wrong one costs nothing.

These are entry points, not categories we bill against. Most engagements turn out to be two of them, and one is usually upstream of the other.

It is usually more than one

A CRM that does not fit and numbers nobody trusts are the same finding seen from two ends. We would rather establish which is upstream than agree with your first guess.

Describe it in your own words

The form asks what is happening rather than which service you want. That is deliberate: the service is our decision to justify, not yours to guess.

We will say if we are wrong for it

Some problems are organisational, and buying software for them makes them worse. That is a faster answer for both of us than a proposal neither party believes in.

Not sure which of these it is?

Describe what is happening. We will tell you what we would look at first — and whether it is even a job for us.

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First conversation

Thirty minutes, with the person who would run it

Cost

None, and no proposal unless you ask for one

One business day, from a person

Afterwards

Nothing. No sequence, no list