The deliverable

Your operation, systemized and recorded into an app with a DIY automation map.

The Redprint is what you get in week one. Every process in the business written down and searchable, the shortest version of each one drawn next to it, and every automation opportunity scored, ranked and costed with the build spec attached. You decide what gets built and in what order, including deciding to build none of it. The Redprint is sold on its own, and buying it commits you to nothing else.

01Ask it 02Current State Assessment 03Current SOP 04Ideal SOP 05Automation Map 06Business Transformation Report

Turnaround
Week one
What you get
A working app, not a PDF
Sold on its own
No build commitment
What is inside

Six views of the same operation, each answering a different question.

01 · Ask it

Anyone can ask the business a question and get the answer

The part your team uses every day. A search box over everything we documented, so nobody has to find the one person who knows.

A dispatcher wants to know what happens when a customer disputes an invoice. A new hire wants to know who signs off on a credit. Instead of asking around, they ask the app and get the process back, in order, with the exceptions called out.

This is the thing that stops your operation living inside three people’s heads. It is also the reason a new hire is useful in two weeks instead of six months.

Ask the operationAnswering
What happens when a customer disputes an invoice?
Billing flags the invoice and it leaves the collections sequence the same day. Ops attaches the proof of service within 24 hours. Anything above $2,500 goes to the controller before a credit is issued. Below that, billing can settle it.
SOURCE · BILLING & COLLECTIONS SOP, STEPS 7–9
02 · Current State Assessment

Where the work is leaking today, named and measured

Department by department, with the constraint identified rather than described.

We follow the work through each department and record what we find: where it waits, what it waits on, how often it comes back for rework, and which steps exist only because a system or a person once required them.

Each finding carries an estimate of what it costs you a year, so the conversation about what to fix first is a conversation about numbers rather than opinions.

Where the work leaks · OperationsMapped
Same record re-keyed into two systemsIntake and billing, every job$61,400 / yr
Status answered by interruptionDepends on who touched it lastConstraint
Exceptions found by noticingNo alert, no owner$27,200 / yr
Approval routed by memory of who is inTwo people know the rule$14,800 / yr
Figures estimated from observed volume and loaded hourly cost.
03 · Current SOP

Every process exactly as it runs now

Written from watching the work, not from asking what the process is supposed to be.

Each process is documented with its trigger, every step in sequence, the system each step touches, who owns it, and the exceptions your team handles without thinking about them. Including the workaround somebody invented three years ago that everybody now depends on.

This is the version most companies have never had in writing. On its own it is worth the week: it is what you hand a new hire, what you fall back on when your best person is out, and what an insurer or acquirer asks for.

Order to invoice · as it runs todayDocumented
TriggerPO arrives by email. Whoever sees it first prints it and starts the job.
Step 2Keyed into the operating system. Owner: ops lead.
Step 5Keyed again into billing at week’s end. Owner: whoever is in.
Step 9Status questions go to the last person who touched it.
ExceptionDisputes handled by one coordinator, from memory. Written down nowhere until now.
14 steps · 4 systems · 3 people · 2 days. Including the workaround from three years ago that everybody now depends on.
04 · Ideal SOP

The shortest distance from trigger to done

Not the same process with robots in it. The process rewritten with the waste taken out.

We take the current process apart and rebuild it as the fewest steps that still produce the right outcome, with the approvals that protect you kept and the ones that are habit removed. Then we mark which of the remaining steps a system should carry and which stay with a person.

Read side by side with the current version, this is usually where an owner sees the operation properly for the first time: fourteen steps become six, and four of the six were never a job for a human.

One process, both waysRedesigned
Today
14
steps · 3 people · 2 days
Ideal
6
steps · 2 by a person · same day
8 steps cutNo value added, no risk removed
4 steps carried by the systemFetching, copying, routing, raising the invoice
2 steps kept humanJudgment, on purpose
The Current SOP is what your team does today. The Ideal SOP is what gets built.
05 · Automation Map

Every opportunity scored, ranked and costed

With the build spec attached to each one, so nothing here is a suggestion you would have to translate.

Each opportunity is scored on the hours it gives back, how hard it is to build, what it depends on and what it is worth over a year. Then they are ranked, so the order to build in is obvious rather than argued about.

Open any row and you get the actual spec: the trigger, the systems involved, the logic, the exceptions, where a human stays in the loop, and an estimate of the build. Take it to another firm if you want. It is written to be built from.

Scored and rankedRanked
Intake classified and routed on arrival62 hrs/mo · medium build · score 94Build first
TriggerWebhook on inbound mail and form POST. Deduped on message ID so a resend never runs twice.
ExtractModel call with a fixed schema, returns {type, account, urgency, value}
MatchHybrid vector and keyword search across your records, with a confidence score.
Branchconfidence ≥ 0.85 routes itself. Below that it queues for a person, reasoning attached.
ActCreate the record, set owner and due date, post the notification.
FallbackThree retries on exponential backoff. Still failing, it raises rather than fails quietly.
Status answered without interruption44 hrs/mo · low build · score 91Build first
Billing raised by the event, same day28 hrs/mo · medium · score 87Build first
Weekly reporting pack assembled16 hrs/mo · low · score 74Build later
Exception triage by model alone9 hrs/mo · high difficultyDo not build
Every opportunity opens up like this one. Triggers, action nodes, decision logic, integrations: written to be built from, by us or by anyone.
06 · Business Transformation Report

The before and after, written for the person who signs

What the operation looks like today, what it looks like on the system, and what the difference is worth.

Hours reclaimed, cycle time before and after, the cost of the manual layer as it stands, and what the build costs against it. Written so you can take it to a partner, a board or a lender without rewriting a slide.

If the numbers do not justify the work, this is the document that says so. That has happened, and we would rather it happened in week one than month six.

Before and afterProjected
 
Today
 
After
Steps in the process
14
6
People it passes through
3
1
Runs without a person
0%
91%
New hire to useful
6 mo
2 wks
Weekly hours on coordination
190
24
Leaned out first, then automated. The left column is what the leaning-out alone gets you. The right is what the system does once it is built on top.
Why it comes first

Nobody can quote you honestly on an operation they have not seen.

Automation projects fail in the same place every time: somebody built from a description of the process instead of the process. Halfway through, the exceptions surface, and the exceptions turn out to be most of the work.

The Redprint is how we avoid that, and how you avoid signing for a build nobody has scoped. It is yours whether or not we build a thing.

These guys are something else. What I thought was automation was not even close to the monster they’ve built for my business.

O. Garrison · Distribution facility
FAQ

About the Redprint specifically.

How much of my team’s time does this take?
A few conversations with the people who actually do the work, usually thirty to sixty minutes each, plus access to look at how things move through your systems. We do the writing. Nobody on your side is asked to document their own job.
Can I buy the Redprint without committing to a build?
Yes, and plenty of clients do. It is priced and sold as a standalone piece of work with its own fixed scope. Nothing in it obliges you to build anything, with us or with anyone else, and the build specs are yours either way. Some clients hand them to their own internal team. We would rather you had an honest map than a contract you regret.
What if you find there is nothing worth automating?
Then the report says so and you have still ended up with your operation documented, which most businesses have never had. It is a better outcome than a build that pays for itself in year four.
Is it a document or software?
It is an app your team logs into. The documents are in there, but the part people use daily is the search: ask a question about how the business runs, get the answer with the process behind it.
Does it stay current?
On a retainer, yes. We keep it matched to the business as processes change. Without one it is a snapshot of the operation in the week we mapped it, which is still considerably more than you have today.
What to expect
A short discovery call.
  1. 01How the work actually moves through your business today
  2. 02What you have already tried, and where it came apart
  3. 03Whether there is enough here to be worth building
20 minutes Video call

You will be talking to the people who would actually build it. If there is something worth doing, we will tell you what it would look like. If there is not, then we build a relationship.

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