Business Reality Audit — Quick Version

The same five dimensions, compressed. Fifteen minutes to a clearer picture of where your firm stands.

This is the condensed version. For the full guided experience with all five dimensions, see the Business Reality Audit.

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Where Your Time Goes

What did you spend time on last week that made you think "there must be a better way to do this"?

If you could get back five hours a week across the business, where would those hours most likely come from?

Where Your Data Lives

If you needed to find every interaction you've had with a specific client over the past year, how many places would you need to look?

If your longest-serving staff member left tomorrow, what information would leave with them?

Where Your Money Goes

What are you spending money on that frustrates you — where you feel like you're paying too much for too little?

If a tool or service cost £50–100 a month and genuinely saved you five hours a week, would you try it? What about £500 a month for a larger gain? Where does the discomfort start?

Where Your Risks Sit

What would keep you awake at night if it went wrong?

Where in the business would you never want a decision made without a human checking it, regardless of how good the technology got?

Where Your People Are

Who on your team would you describe as indispensable, and what specifically makes them so?

Where's the biggest gap between what you need the team to be able to do and what they can currently do — and is that gap about skill, about willingness, or about time?

The Composite Picture

Look at the picture across all five dimensions before answering these.

Looking at the picture across all five dimensions — where's the sharpest mismatch between the time or money you're spending and the value you're getting back?

That's likely where the first phase of any plan should focus.

What did this process surface that you already knew but hadn't confronted — and what's been the cost of leaving it unaddressed?

If you could change one thing about how the business operates before the end of the year, and it had to be realistic given everything this portrait shows about your constraints, what would it be?

For the full guided experience, the Business Reality Audit takes you through all five dimensions in depth.

If you'd like to build a similar picture for your own career, The Working Picture is designed for exactly that.