Workflow audit · £999 fixed · Brighton
You haven't had a spare Tuesday to work out where the hours go. Forty-five minutes on how your week runs, then a report naming the tools that win them back.
£999 fixed · money-back guarantee
Owner-run businesses of 8 to 40 people, in Brighton and across the UK. Estate agents, care providers, solicitors, clinics, kitchen firms, record labels.
Most of what I prescribe is off-the-shelf and costs about £45 a month all in. A custom build starts at £2,000, and the audit tells you whether you need one.
Source · SME Business Barometer, 1,000 UK micro, small and medium business owners
The guarantee
Refund clause
The tools I prescribe usually come to about £45 a month. Seven is the refund threshold rather than an average.
Worst case: you get a free map of where your week goes.
The actual jobs, with the part a handful of ordinary tools would take off you.
Illustrative, sized to the 11-hour average above. Not measured in a delivered audit
Based in Brighton? The AI workflow audit Brighton page covers meeting in person at your office or on Zoom.
Who it's for
Big enough that admin is a real cost, small enough that you still decide. Strong reviews, a week that still runs on people.
The instruction usually goes to whoever calls back first, so a valuation enquiry that sits for an hour is one you might have lost. Landlord updates and vendor chasing go out whenever somebody happens to have a gap.
Families ring on a Sunday evening and hear nothing until Monday, by which point some of them have rung somebody else. The update to the family after a visit is still a round of phone calls.
Chasing ID, searches and the other side eats the day, and none of it is the legal work you are actually paid for. I stay well away from the advice and go after the chasing.
Appointments nobody confirmed, treatment plans nobody followed up, and enquiries for one site landing in another site's inbox.
A quote goes out and then nothing happens for a week, because following it up is nobody's actual job. Calls after six go to voicemail and a fair few of those never ring back.
Labels, managers, PR agencies, studios, and artists putting records out themselves. This is the week I work in myself, so I know where it goes.
The audit works the same way across every sector. If you are in Brighton or Hove, see the Brighton audit page for local details. Industry-specific examples: estate agents, home care, solicitors, and music PR.
A 45-minute call where I map how work actually moves through your week: where the hours quietly disappear, and where your information actually lives.
I work through everything you told me and pick the three to seven off-the-shelf tools that will save you the most time.
A plain report: the tools, what each costs in pounds, how long to set up, the hours saved, and a four-day plan you can run in ten minutes a day.
A 30-minute walkthrough of the report. I show you how each piece works and answer every question, so you can start on Monday.
Why take the advice from me
I build and run this software myself. Over the last year I shipped TAP, SpotCheck, Newsjack and Datasink, and all four are still in production. The tools I put in your report are ordinary ones I already run, so I know what they cost and where they break.
TypeScript 50% · Python 41% · HTML 3% · Shell 2%· 15 repos
Run your own PR. Keep every contact.
When an agency's work ends, the relationships leave with them. TAP plans the release backwards, drafts the press kit and a pitch for every contact with the reason it was picked, and keeps every reply and play against the contact, so they stay with you. Built by a plugger with five years pitching UK radio, for his own releases too. The first release is free, then £59 a release or £129 a year.
Artificial streaming warning? Scan your playlists for bot farms.
Distributors pass on Spotify's fee for artificial streams and rarely say where the streams came from. Paste the playlists from your Spotify for Artists page and SpotCheck scores each one from its public data, then drafts the reply to your distributor and the removal requests. A single playlist check gives a 0 to 100 bot-risk score before you pay a curator. Two scans a day are free, and Pro is £4.99 a month.
AI-Powered Newsjacking for Music PR.
Keeping up with music trade papers takes hours of daily reading. Newsjack tracks trade feeds (MBW, Billboard, Music Week) around the clock, uses AI to grade the relevance of breaking news, and drafts content ideas in your voice. Built to ensure your agency is first to comment on industry trends.
Release portal & digital catalog for sadact music.
The official catalog site for the sadact music project. Built to load fast, it caches Spotify metadata dynamically and provides direct CTAs to Bandcamp, SoundCloud, and major streaming endpoints.
What comes after
Most people install the quick wins themselves and stop there, which is the point. If the audit turns up something bigger (one workflow, or embedded work with a team and existing systems), that is scoped and priced separately. Your £999 comes off the price of a build.
Start here
£999 fixed
The call, the report, the review call, and the guarantee.
If you want it built
From £2,000 · £999 credited
I build the deeper automations for you: answering enquiries fast, moving data between systems, wiring into a platform, or sitting with a team to map how work actually runs. Scoped and priced after we know what is worth building; not the £999 package.
Ongoing
£900–£1,500/mo
Two calls a month plus help between them, building as your business grows. Done with you, not handed over and forgotten. Six clients only.
Custom work varies: one workflow is one price; sitting with a team or wiring into a live platform is another. Scoped after we map what's actually worth building. Full detail on the services pages.
Every enquiry gets a useful reply in minutes instead of hours, with the details already captured and the follow-up booked.
The same information stops being retyped between your inbox, your spreadsheets, and whatever you invoice with.
A helper trained on how you actually write and work, drafting the messages and documents you send most often.
For teams that need tooling connected into how they already work, including sitting with people, wiring into existing platforms, and making it safe to hand real work to.
This is the front door. The audit is where the quick wins get identified, the ones any business can install itself. If you'd rather have the deeper automations built for you, answering enquiries fast or moving data between your systems, that's the implementation build, and your £999 comes off the price.
If I can't find you seven hours a week of time savings within 30 days of the review call, you get every pound back. The prescriptions usually cost around £45 a month in tools. The seven is the guarantee, not an average.
You can, and some of what I prescribe will be a ChatGPT subscription. What you're buying is the forty-five minutes and the report: which three to seven tools fit the way your week actually runs, what each one costs, and which to install first. On your own you would pick the ones you have heard of, in the order you found them. That's a weekend of research and a lot of dead ends compressed into one call, with a refund if the hours aren't there. At the other end, a custom build starts at £2,000 and this tells you whether you need one.
No. Most of the tools I prescribe take ten minutes to set up and need no technical knowledge. The whole point is that someone who runs these systems daily translates it into plain, specific steps for your business. A lot of these tools use AI under the bonnet, which is why the whole set usually comes to about £45 a month.
Owner-run businesses of roughly 8 to 40 people, where the owner still makes the decisions and the week still runs on people. That covers estate and lettings, home care, solicitors, clinics, kitchen firms and trades, and it covers labels, managers, PR agencies and studios. The method is the same either way.
Want the checklist instead?
Not ready to book a call? Drop your email and I'll send you the Seven-Hour Week Checklist: six places an owner-run week actually leaks, and the tool that fixes each one. Free, no sales pitch.
What the audit gives back
8 weeks
of working time, every year. That is what seven hours a week adds up to once you stop counting it in hours.
7 hrs × 46 working weeks = 322 hrs = 8.1 working weeks
£999 once, credited against any build. Fewer than seven hours found, and you pay nothing.