What only happens when somebody remembers
Every one of those is a thing that fails on a busy week, and the busy week is the one that matters. We are looking for the steps held together by a person's memory.
The automation audit · free
Half an hour on the phone, and a plan you keep either way.
You walk us through an ordinary week: what you do by hand, what breaks, what you already pay for and what you have given up trying to fix. We ask the awkward questions. Nothing to sign, and nothing to install.
Afterwards you get it in writing — what we would do first, what it would do, what it deliberately would not do, roughly how long, and what it costs. That document is yours whether or not you ever hire us.
The call costs nothing, and nothing gets built before you have the plan in writing. “Book a call” opens an email — send us a time that suits and we will confirm it.
What the half hour covers
- The calls you did not get to
- The steps that repeat every week
- The tools you already pay for
- What breaks when you are busy
- What to fix first, and what to leave
What we look at
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Three questions, and they are all about your week.
Not your industry, not your strategy, not where you see the business in five years. The week you actually had, in the order it happened.
What you already pay for
A calendar, an accounting package, a phone system, somewhere the customers live. Half the time the fix is joining two things you own, not buying a third.
What should stay manual
Some things are judgement, and automating judgement is how businesses lose customers. Part of the job is telling you which parts to leave alone.
Bring the mess. The spreadsheet everyone is embarrassed by, the workaround nobody wrote down — that is where the useful answers are, and we are not going to be shocked by any of it.
How it runs
Four steps, and you can stop after any of them.
The first two cost nothing. If you stop after the second one you are ahead: you keep the document, and you can take it to anyone.
- Step 01You send a time
Booking opens an email. Put in a couple of times that suit and roughly what your business does. We confirm one. There is no form and no calendar to fight with.
- Step 02Half an hour on the phone
You talk, mostly. We ask what happens on the awkward days. No slides, no demo unless you ask for one, and no second call to get to the point.
- Step 03A plan in writing
Usually within a couple of days. What to fix first, what it would do, what it would not do, how long, and what it costs. Plain language, no attachments you cannot open.
- Step 04You decide, or you do not
If it is worth doing, we build it in pieces you can see. If it is not, the document is still yours and we will not chase you about it.
You do not have to prepare anything. If you have a rough number for how many calls go unanswered in a week, bring it. If you do not, the first thing the plan does is find out.
What you get
A document, not a proposal deck.
Both lists below are here on purpose. The second one is the part most people find out after they have given up an afternoon.
What lands in your inbox
- The one thing to fix first, and why that one before the others.
- What it would actually do, described as behaviour rather than as features.
- What it deliberately would not do — the exclusions, written down, so nothing turns into an argument later.
- What it connects to, and what we would need from you to connect it.
- Roughly how long it takes, and what it costs to build and to keep running.
- The things you should leave alone, and the things you could do yourself without us.
What it is not
- Not a trial, not a plan and not a first instalment of anything. Nothing starts unless you say so afterwards.
- Not a demo we need you to sit through. If you want to see the receptionist working, ring it before the call and skip that part entirely.
- Not a document with our name locked into it. It is written so you can take it to another shop and get a second price.
The reason we can afford to give the document away is that a business with a clear plan is a business we can quote accurately. A vague brief costs us more than a free half hour ever will.
Be honest with yourself
Who should book, and who should not bother.
We would rather you read this and decide against it than sit through a call you did not want.
Worth half an hour
- Calls go unanswered while you are working, and you do not know how many.
- The same handful of steps happen every week and depend on somebody remembering them.
- You pay for tools that do not know about each other.
- Somebody in the business spends evenings on admin that is not the work you sell.
Probably not worth it yet
- You want a price list and nothing else. There is nothing to buy on this site, so a call is the only way to get a number, and if that is not worth half an hour then it is genuinely not.
- You are looking for the cheapest possible version of something you have already specified. Send it out to tender instead; that is a fair way to buy and we will not win it.
- Nothing in your week repeats. Automation has nothing to remove, and we will say so.
Still unsure? Ring the receptionist first on (902) 707-6527 and judge the work by what happens. It is a live line, it answers, and nobody takes your details for a sales call.
Start here
Send us a time, and bring the mess.
Half an hour on the phone, then a written plan of what to fix first and what it would cost. Both are free, and the plan is yours whether or not you go ahead.
Booking opens an email to support@affordableleadsgeneration.ca — send a time that suits you and we will confirm it.