The Founder Intelligence Audit
Two weeks. One deliverable. A complete map of how decisions actually get made in your company — and the three that are costing you most by being made late.
Every founder-led company has a set of decisions that only really happen when the founder is paying attention. Reorder this, chase that, hold this price, escalate that account. Nobody wrote them down, so nobody else can make them.
The audit finds those decisions, works out what it costs when they happen late, and tells you which three are worth fixing first. It is deliberately not a technology review — we are not interested in your stack until we understand your decisions.
It is a paid, fixed-price engagement. That is the point: it means we can recommend nothing, and sometimes we do.
Four things, all of them yours to keep.
Written, specific, and useful to someone who has never heard of us.
- 01
Your operating map
Every recurring decision your business makes, laid out with its data source, its owner, and how many hours late it currently arrives. Most founders have never seen their company drawn this way, and it is usually the part they keep.
- 02
A ranked bottleneck list
Each bottleneck with an estimated annual cost attached. Estimates are shown with the assumptions behind them, so you can disagree with the maths rather than the conclusion.
- 03
A build recommendation
What we would build first, what it would cost as a fixed scope, and the single metric it should move. Or, when that is the honest answer, a recommendation not to build anything yet.
- 04
A ninety-minute readout
We walk you and whoever you want in the room through all of it. Recorded, so the people who could not attend are not working from someone else’s notes.
How it runs.
Week one
Sessions with you and the two or three people who make the recurring operational calls. Read-only access to the systems that hold the answers. We are looking for the gap between an event and a response.
Week two
We put numbers against the gaps, rank them, and pressure-test the top three with your team. Anything we cannot evidence gets marked as an estimate, clearly.
Readout
Ninety minutes, recorded, with the written map and bottleneck list delivered beforehand so nobody is reading it for the first time on the call.
Who this is for — and who it isn't.
We would rather lose the engagement than take one that was never going to work.
It's probably a fit if
- Five to a hundred people, and the founder is still in the operating loop
- More than three systems hold parts of the same answer
- Something went wrong recently that you found out about later than you should have
- You have hired to fix visibility before, and it did not fix visibility
It's probably not, yet, if
- Under five people — the bottleneck is almost certainly still sales, not visibility
- The main constraint is finding customers rather than serving them
- You want a dashboard built to a spec you have already written
- Nobody internally can give two hours a week for six weeks
Before you book.
Why isn’t the audit free?
Because a free audit is a sales call wearing a costume, and everyone involved knows it. Charging for the diagnosis is what lets us tell you not to hire us.
It also means the deliverable has to stand on its own. You keep the map whether or not we ever work together again.
What does it cost?
It is a fixed price, quoted before we start, based on the number of systems involved and the size of the team. You will have the number in writing before anything begins.
What access do you need?
Read-only access to the systems that hold operational data — typically your store or ERP, your fulfilment or logistics platform, your CRM, and whichever spreadsheets are load-bearing.
We ask for the minimum the work needs, we tell you why for each one, and we can work from exports where access is genuinely difficult.
Do we have to buy a build afterwards?
No, and a meaningful share of audits end without one. Sometimes the honest recommendation is a process change, a hire, or waiting six months.
Who needs to be involved?
The founder for about two hours in week one — not a delegate, because the decisions we are mapping are the ones that currently end with you. Then one operations person for two or three hours a week.
Book a session and we'll scope it.
Forty-five minutes to work out whether an audit is the right next step. If it isn't, we'll tell you what is.
Prefer to write? contact@autkron.com — we reply to every enquiry within one business day.