The Toil Audit · Ninety minutes + a written report
Ninety minutes.
Then the number in writing.
I come to your shop and we put a dollar figure on every piece of paperwork you're carrying. You leave with a written report — the toil, priced — whether or not you go a step further. If you do, the $1,500 comes off the install.
What you get
A written report, not a sales call.
The Toil Audit is ninety minutes at your shop and a document you can act on. We walk every recurring office task — writing proposals, chasing estimates, nudging invoices, pulling Monday's numbers, the trade-specific paperwork — and I put a real number on each one.
The report answers four questions in plain language:
- Where the hours go. Every recurring task and roughly how many hours a week it eats, most of it after six.
- What it's costing. Not just the hours — the jobs that walk because nobody followed up, the invoices aging past 90, the agreements that lapsed.
- What comes off first. The three workflows that would pay for themselves fastest in your shop.
- What it would take. A fixed number for the install and what the monthly plan runs after.
You can hand that report to your bookkeeper, your spouse, or nobody at all. It's yours to keep. That's the test of whether it's worth the fee.
The fee, and how it comes back
$1,500, paid up front. If you go ahead with the install, it comes off in full. If the report says the numbers don't justify it, you keep the report and we shake hands.
What I need from you
Ninety minutes, a walk through how the office work actually happens today, and a rough sense of your monthly estimate and invoice volume. You don't need to prepare anything.
Where
In person at your shop if you're near Austin, or on a video call if you're not — same ninety minutes, same written report. I'm starting close to home but happy to work with a good shop anywhere.
Before we talk
Ten things I hear on the first call.
Tick the ones that are true. Nothing leaves your browser until you send the form, and then only your ticks travel with it, so I can read the situation before we talk.
Book it
Send this and I'll get you on the calendar.
I reply personally, usually the same day, with a couple of times to come out. No deck, no discovery process, no sales sequence.
Rather skip the form? bill@lateshift.work · (512) 222-3086
What happens next
1. You get a reply with a couple of times.
2. I come to your shop for ninety minutes.
3. You get the written report — the toil, priced — and decide, with no pressure, whether the install pencils out.