a leverhaus service: Operational Readiness Audit
Know exactly what's costing you time — before you commit to fixing it.
Not the same as a free consultation. The intro call tells us if this is a fit. The Operational Readiness Audit is the deep-dive — a full map of your bottlenecks across systems, ownership gaps, and blind spots, delivered in writing.
Most operational problems are easy to feel and hard to price.
You know something's slow. You don't know what it's actually costing you — or which fix would pay for itself first. A single repetitive task can quietly cost 10–40 hours a month, depending on how deep the workaround goes. A stalled initiative costs more quietly: it sits for months, not because the work is hard, but because no one's had the time to properly map it.
This audit answers that — in writing, in two weeks, before you commit to anything bigger.
How it Works
Full operational review
Systems, ownership, and decision-making examined against real usage — not assumptions. That means workflows worth automating, gaps where no one's clearly owning follow-through, and decisions currently being made without the information to back them.
ROI Scoring
Every fix we find is ranked by hours saved against effort required — so priority isn't a guess, and you know what to fix first, not just what's broken.
Written report + walkthrough call
A clear, prioritized document that's yours to keep — build it yourself, bring in Leverhaus, or leave it as-is. We'll tell you honestly which one makes sense. Plus time to go through it together before you decide anything. Delivered as a short, clear report you can act on immediately — not a 40-slide deck no one reads.
Small Business
A founder-led services business suspected their biggest cost was headcount. The audit found the real bottleneck was a manual invoicing process eating 12 hours a month of the founder's own time — time later redirected entirely to sales, worth more than the audit fee in the first month alone.
Nonprofit
A recent audit for a 15-person nonprofit found that program staff were spending roughly 6 hours a week manually reconciling donor data across two disconnected systems — nearly $42,000/year in staff time once fully costed out. The fix ranked highest for ROI relative to effort, and the organization moved forward with the build within the 30-day credit window.
Agency
A 12-person agency's founder was the only person who could greenlight client deliverables — every project stalled waiting on the founder's sign-off, even ones fully ready to ship. The audit traced it to a single missing handoff point, not a headcount problem; a defined sign-off process freed up roughly a third of the founder's week, worth more than the audit fee within the first few weeks.
Solo Operator
A solo consultant assumed a slow quarter meant it was time to drop prices. The audit found three competitors had quietly raised rates and repositioned upmarket months earlier — information that would have taken a full week to gather manually. The pricing call alone was worth more than the audit fee, before a single hour went into anything bigger.
*Illustrative examples based on patterns we commonly find, not a specific named client.
Pricing & Timeline
Why Leverhaus
Merry Jones
Founder & Principal
I spent 20+ years inside Fortune 500 companies, a bank, a consulting firm, healthcare organizations, and nonprofits, solving the operational problems that quietly slow good teams down. You're not handing your operation to a junior automation shop — you're working with someone who has lived the work.
This isn't generic automation know-how — it's specific, hard-won recognition of the exact failure patterns that have already cost real time and money in past builds. Recognizing these on sight, instead of debugging from scratch each time, is the actual value.
We treat your systems and data with the same discipline learned in regulated, enterprise environments. Happy to sign an NDA before we begin.
Ready to see exactly where the time is going?
Most businesses waste thousands on software or extra hires trying to fix problems that were never clearly mapped in the first place.
Let's start with a short call to confirm scope. If what you're describing turns out to be a narrower, specific fix, we'll say so and point you there — the Audit is the most thorough option, not the only one.