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20 minutes | Phone or video | No charge

Book a 20 minute diagnostic call.

Tell us what is going on. We tell you what we would look at first, whether it is a small fix or a big one, and whether we are the right people.

Request a time

These are requested times. We confirm one by email within one business day. We use your details to arrange this call and nothing else.

What the call covers

Twenty minutes, no pitch.

  • Your operation in a few sentences: what you do, size, sites
  • The symptom, how long it has been happening, what you have tried
  • What we would check first and why
  • Whether a toolkit, a fixed price review, a review day or a project fits, or none of them

It is a fit and scoping conversation. Twenty minutes will not get you a full diagnosis. If we think you can fix it yourself, we will say so.

Jayden takes the calls, weekdays 9am to 5pm Sydney time. If your problem needs the consultant on the line, he will set that up.

What to have ready

Nothing formal. The call works better if you can say roughly how many orders or deliveries you do in a week, how many sites and people, and when the problem started. If you have a number on what it is costing, bring it. If you do not, say so, because that is often the first thing worth fixing.

You do not need data, a brief or a budget. Those come later, and only if there is something worth doing.

What will not happen on the call

No pitch, no slides, and no price quoted on the spot for work that has not been scoped. If the answer is that you do not need a consultant, you will be told that, because a scoped piece of work that should not have been sold is worse for us than a call that goes nowhere.

We also will not ask you to sign anything. Nothing is binding until there is a written scope and you have accepted it.

If you would rather not talk yet

The operations health check takes ten minutes, needs no email and scores six areas of the operation. Or read the service that sounds closest to your problem: every one of the sixteen has a page saying what the work involves, what comes out and what it costs. They are listed on the consultancy page.

If you already know what you need and it is on the price list, you can buy it directly without a call.

Benchmarking yourself? We published what a good DIFOT actually is. Want the price before you ask? See what a review costs. Not sure where to start? Take the ten minute health check. We work on site in Sydney and Melbourne.