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What's slowing your company down?

Whatever a company sells, the same 24 problems cost it money every week. Here they are with what each one costs, drawn with its source, and what fixes it.

The 24 at a glance

Twenty four problems, five kinds of loss.

Every cell is one problem, with what it costs and where the number comes from. Open one to see it drawn, and what fixes it.

1The buyer waits4 problems

2Money leaks out8 problems

3The company forgets4 problems

4Nobody sees it coming6 problems

5It all rests on one person2 problems

Most of the money goes out through the tallest column: small leaks, every day.

  • A studyA published figure we read ourselves, with its source and year.
  • Our own sumArithmetic for an ordinary company, with the working shown.
  • No number yetNothing we would print, so we print nothing.

No team is spared.

Sales and Finance carry 9 of the 24 each, and no team carries fewer than 5. Open a team to see its week, what its problems cost and what we build for it.

Every problem, team by team

Each of the 24 problems, and the teams that live with it
SalesSalesMarketingMarketingCustomer serviceCustomer serviceOperationsOperationsFinanceFinancePeople and HRPeople and HRLegal and complianceLegal and complianceProcurementProcurementSupply chainSupply chainIT and securityIT and securityOwners and leadershipOwners and leadershipProduct and engineeringProduct and engineering
The buyer waits
01Leads wait until MondaySalesMarketingCustomer service3
02Quotes sit in an inbox for daysSalesOperations2
03Calls ring outSalesCustomer service2
04The same twenty questions, all dayCustomer servicePeople and HRLegal and complianceSupply chainIT and security5
Money leaks out
05What did my salespeople do today?Sales1
06Marketing spend, return unknownMarketingFinanceOwners and leadership3
07The same data typed three timesCustomer serviceOperationsFinanceProcurementSupply chainIT and security6
08Paid 90 days after the workSalesFinanceOwners and leadership3
09Nobody checks supplier billsFinanceProcurementSupply chain3
10Out of what sells, full of what doesn'tOperationsFinanceProcurementSupply chain4
11Hiring takes monthsPeople and HR1
12Small changes take monthsIT and securityProduct and engineering2
The company forgets
13Chasing people for updatesCustomer serviceOperationsProcurementSupply chainOwners and leadership5
14Nobody can find the latest versionOperationsPeople and HRLegal and complianceIT and securityProduct and engineering5
15Only one person knows pricingSalesOperationsPeople and HRSupply chainOwners and leadership5
16New people take six monthsSalesCustomer serviceOperationsPeople and HR4
Nobody sees it coming
17Customers leave quietlySalesMarketingCustomer serviceOwners and leadershipProduct and engineering5
18The page has gone silentMarketingOwners and leadership2
19Real profit, seen months lateFinanceOwners and leadership2
20Contracts signed unreadSalesLegal and complianceProcurement3
21Files pasted into free AI toolsFinanceLegal and complianceIT and securityProduct and engineering4
22Building for the loudest customerMarketingProduct and engineering2
It all rests on one person
23Everything comes to meOperationsFinanceProcurementOwners and leadership4
24A missed deadline, then a noticeFinancePeople and HRLegal and compliance3
Problems each team lives with957896566585

Six offers answer all twenty four.

Each problem closes on one of them. Open an offer to see what we build for it, what we measure before and after, and the windows that show it at work.

The old way keeps running until the new one has passed on your own work.

Yours is not on the list? Bring it anyway.

45 minutes on a video call with our founder and the people who live with the problem. Nothing to sign. You leave knowing what we would build first, and why.

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