service · potential analysis
Two weeks. Your recurring Excel routines mapped, the cost of manual work quantified in your own hours — and an honest ranking of what pays off first.
The problem
Almost every company knows that time is lost somewhere. Almost none knows where exactly and how much. Two equally expensive mistakes follow: you automate the routine that hurts loudly, instead of the one that quietly eats the most time every month — or nothing at all, because the effort can't be justified.
The Potential Analysis replaces gut feeling with a number. Not an industry average from a study, but your hours, in your operation, measured on your own files.
“Doing nothing isn't free. It just doesn't show up on any invoice.”
the process
From your side, around three to four hours, spread over two weeks. We do the rest.
We set the frame: which reports and returns we look at, who builds them by hand today and how you would notice, in six months, that something has improved.
We sit next to the people who assemble the files every month — not just management. Whoever describes a routine rarely knows the truth about it.
Every manual step between the export and the filing is quantified: how often, how long, how error-prone, who waits for whom. From that comes the number — hours per year, converted into your internal costs.
Every candidate is ranked by effort and return. What doesn't pay off drops out — with a rationale, so the question doesn't come back in a year.
We go through the document together. You receive it in writing — not a presentation no one finds after the meeting.
The result
who it is for
Anyone asking for funds needs a number from their own company — not an estimate out of a study.
Three candidates and no ranking: the analysis says which one comes first, and why.
After a project that changed nothing, a measured baseline counts for more than the next proposal.
plain talk
frequent questions
Depending on scope, usually a few days of work spread over two to three weeks. The time goes into the conversations and the recalculation, not into technology.
A list of your recurring routines, each with the effort in hours, the risk if it goes wrong, and an order of priority. Plus the routines we advise against, with reasons.
No. The analysis stands on its own: you can work through the list internally or hand it to someone else.
The person who runs the routine, and someone with access to the exports. Management is only needed for the decision that follows.
Only as far as the workflow requires, and with anonymised exports on request. Where the data sits and who can see it is under Security.
Then the report says so. For routines that run rarely, an honest no is the most common outcome — and it costs less than an automation nobody needs.
intro call
In the intro call we look at a real routine and tell you honestly whether a Potential Analysis is worth it for you — or whether the answer is already on the table.