TIME
Hours spent copying information between systems, rebuilding the same report, chasing a document, or finding out where a job stands.
TMI / FREE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AUDIT
SEE WHAT
YOUR BUSINESS
IS MISSING.
In one working session we review how your company sells, operates, communicates, tracks information and makes decisions. You leave with a Business Intelligence Score out of 100, your biggest bottlenecks, and a short list of what we would fix first. It is free, and it is useful even if you never hire us.
WHO THIS IS BUILT FOR
- Industrial, manufacturing and machine shops
- Oilfield, energy service and field crews
- Construction, fleet, logistics and equipment
- Family businesses in their second or third generation
Operations-heavy companies that already work. If the business has employees, customers and more than one system, there is something here.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
FIVE THINGS
LEAK OUT OF A COMPANY.
Almost every established operation we look inside is losing the same five things, and losing them quietly. Not through anything dramatic. Through a hundred small places where information has to be carried by a person instead of moving on its own.
The audit is a structured way of finding where yours are going.
MONEY
Margin nobody sees until after billing. Job types priced from memory. Quotes that were never followed up.
DATA
Numbers the company technically has and cannot actually reach, because getting them means asking someone.
OPPORTUNITIES
Dormant customers nobody tracks, inquiries answered slowly, and work that could have been won by replying first.
OWNER FREEDOM
Decisions that still have to come to you because nobody else has the context to make them.
THE INSTRUMENT
TEN AREAS.
ONE HUNDRED POINTS.
Each area is worth ten points and has a written rubric behind it, so the score does not depend on who from TMI ran your audit. We score from your answers after the call, not in front of you.
AREA
WEIGHT
WHAT IT MEASURES
Owner Independence
10 pts
How much of the company runs without you in the room. What stops when you leave, who can approve a price, and what breaks first if you are gone for a month.
Sales Intelligence
10 pts
Whether every lead is tracked, how fast they are contacted, what happens to a quote nobody followed up, and whether you can see close rate, cycle length and why deals were lost.
Operations
10 pts
How a job enters the business and what happens to it after. Who schedules it, where the details live, how a delay becomes visible, and how much of it moves by call and text.
Data Visibility
10 pts
Whether you could answer seventeen ordinary questions about your own company inside sixty seconds. Revenue, open quotes, jobs behind schedule, margin by job, outstanding invoices.
Technology
10 pts
Every system you pay for, mapped and marked connected, disconnected, manual or duplicate. We are looking for the same information being typed in three times.
Automation
10 pts
The work your team repeats every day. Copying information, rebuilding the same report, chasing documents, answering the same question. Counted in hours, not adjectives.
Customer Experience
10 pts
What it is like to be your customer. How they request work, how quickly they hear back, whether they can see status, and how you ask for the next job.
Team Systems
10 pts
Whether people know what they own, whether the process is written down anywhere, how long onboarding takes, and what leaves the building when one person does.
Financial Visibility
10 pts
Whether margin is known before the invoice goes out, which service actually makes money, which loses it, and how exposed you are to your largest customer.
Scale Readiness
10 pts
Whether the company could double without doubling the chaos, and whether someone could buy it tomorrow and understand how it works.
Most established companies we look at land somewhere between the thirties and the fifties. That is not a failing grade. It is what happens when a company grows by being good at the work rather than by building systems, which is most of them.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
TEN ANSWERS,
WHETHER OR NOT YOU HIRE US.
YOUR BIGGEST MONEY LEAKSYOUR BIGGEST TIME LEAKSWHERE THE COMPANY DEPENDS ON YOUWHAT COULD BE AUTOMATEDREVENUE SITTING IN OLD QUOTESYOUR OPERATIONAL BOTTLENECKSTHE DATA YOU CANNOT CURRENTLY SEEWHERE AI WOULD ACTUALLY HELPWHICH SYSTEMS SHOULD BE CONNECTEDTHE THREE THINGS WE WOULD FIX FIRST
None of this is a template. The report is written from your call, your systems and your numbers. If we find nothing worth fixing, we will tell you that too. Book the audit →
THE PART OWNERS REMEMBER
WE COUNT
THE HOURS.
Most of what gets called inefficiency is never measured, so it never gets argued about properly. During the audit we take the repeated work your team does and write it down as arithmetic: the task, who does it, how often, and how long it takes.
Then we total it. The figure in your report is built only from numbers you gave us.
HOW THE ARITHMETIC WORKS — ILLUSTRATION ONLY
TASKWHOHOW OFTENMINUTESPER MONTH
Quote follow-upSalesperson5× a day10≈ 17 hrs
“Where is my job?” callsOffice8× a day6≈ 16 hrs
Rebuilding the Monday reportManagerWeekly90≈ 6 hrs
Your own total———from your numbers
These three rows are an illustration of the method, not a result TMI has produced for anyone. Your report carries your tasks, your frequencies and your minutes. We do not estimate savings, and we do not publish a return-on-investment figure before any work has been done.
AFTER THE CALL
FIVE PAGES,
SENT TO YOU.
You do not have to take notes. Within two working days you get a five-page report written from the call, which you own and can show to a partner, a banker, a buyer or your management team.
01
Your score
The Business Intelligence Score out of 100, with one paragraph on what it means for a company like yours.
02
What we found
Revenue that may be slipping, hours being lost, the main operational bottlenecks, and the data the company cannot currently see.
03
Your intelligence map
Lead to estimate to job to production to delivery to invoice to follow-up, with the breaks marked. This is usually the page owners photograph.
04
What we would fix first
Three things. Not a wishlist, not twenty recommendations. The three with the shortest path between effort and relief.
05
Your intelligent company
What the same operation looks like once the information moves on its own, and the honest distance between here and there.
THE CALL ITSELF
THIRTY TO FORTY-FIVE
MINUTES.
No preparation needed. We research the company before we speak, so the time goes on what we cannot find out from outside.
- 5 MIN
The business and where you want it
What the company does, how big it is, and what you want it to look like in twelve months. Everything after this is measured against that answer. - 15 MIN
The audit itself
We work through the ten areas. Mostly you are describing how the work actually happens, not how it is supposed to happen. - 10 MIN
Digging into what surfaced
Two or three things will stand out. We go after those properly rather than finishing a checklist. - 5 MIN
What we found
We say it back to you plainly, including the parts that are working and should be left alone. - 5 MIN
What happens next
Whether there is a next step, and what it would be. If there is not one, we say that.
We finish with one question: if we could fix only one thing we found today, which would make the biggest difference? Your answer is worth more than the rest of the call put together.
No generic AI presentation. No software pitch. We audit your actual business. FREE / 30–45 MINUTES / NOTHING TO BUY AT THE END
Book your free audit ↓BEFORE YOU BOOK
THE QUESTIONS
OWNERS ASK FIRST.
- Is it actually free?
- Yes, and there is nothing to buy at the end of it. You get the score and the report whether or not we ever work together. We do this because the fastest way to find the companies we can genuinely help is to look inside a lot of them.
- What do you need from me before the call?
- Nothing prepared. We research the company beforehand so we are not asking you the obvious. If you can have rough numbers to hand — monthly jobs, average job value, headcount — the report comes back sharper, but the call works without them.
- Who should be on the call?
- The owner, and whoever actually knows how the work moves. Often that second person is an operations manager or a long-serving scheduler, and they are frequently the most useful voice in the room.
- Is this a sales call?
- It is a diagnosis. We spend about five minutes of the forty-five on what happens next, and only if there is something worth doing. There is no demo, no slide deck, and no generic presentation about artificial intelligence.
- How is the score calculated?
- Ten areas, ten points each. Each area has a written rubric, so two different people from TMI running the same audit land in the same range. The score is produced from your answers after the call, not guessed on the call.
- Will the score be flattering?
- Usually not, and that is the point. Most established companies we look at score between the thirties and the fifties, because they grew by being good at the work rather than by building systems. A low score is a map, not a verdict.
- Can I just get the score without the call?
- No. There is no self-serve scorecard or quiz on this site. A number produced by a form someone fills in about themselves is worth very little, and we would rather give you nothing than that.
- What happens to what I tell you?
- It stays with TMI and it never moves between clients. If you want a mutual NDA in place before the call, say so when you book and we will sign one first.
- What if we are too small?
- If the company has employees, customers and more than one system, there is something here. The audit is built for established operations rather than pre-revenue startups, and if you are outside that we will tell you on the call rather than after it.
- What does the work cost if we go ahead?
- It depends entirely on what the audit finds, which is why we will not quote before doing it. Starting prices by category are published on the pricing page so you can see the shape of it before you ever speak to us.
BOOK IT — FREE
START WITH
THE AUDIT.
Thirty to forty-five minutes. You talk, we listen, and you get the score and the report whether or not anything happens next.
- 01
Tell us five things
Name, email, company, and what is most in the way. About a minute. - 02
Choose a time
The booking calendar opens the moment you submit. - 03
Have the conversation
We research the company first, so none of the time goes on the obvious. - 04
Get the report
Your score out of 100 and five pages, inside two working days.
NO COST, NO OBLIGATION
FREE / 30–45 MINUTES / SCORE AND REPORT SENT AFTERNothing to buy at the end
No demo and no slide deck
Yours to keep either way
Mutual NDA on request before we speak
NO INVENTED ROI. WE SET THE BASELINE WITH YOU BEFORE ANY WORK BEGINS.
IF YOU WANT TO READ FIRST
BEFORE
YOU BOOK.
WHAT THE AUDIT FEEDS
WHAT
COMES NEXT.
TMI / LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA
SHOW US THE OPERATION.
Thirty to forty-five minutes, no cost, nothing to buy. Call (337) 450-9795 or book below.