TIME
Hours spent copying information between systems, rebuilding the same report, chasing a document, or finding out where a job stands.
TMI / STAGE 01 — THE 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. $5,000. You leave with the Intelligent Company Roadmap — what you have, what is broken, what is valuable, and what we would do with it.
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 AUDIT ITSELF
HOW THE SESSION
RUNS.
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. $5,000 / IN PERSON OR BY PHONE / THE ROADMAP IS YOURS
Start the $5K audit ↓BEFORE YOU BOOK
THE QUESTIONS
OWNERS ASK FIRST.
- What does it cost?
- The audit is $5,000, in person or by phone. The Fit Call before it is free and carries no obligation. The Intelligent Company Roadmap is yours outright, whatever you decide to do afterwards.
- Why isn’t it free?
- Because a free audit is a sales call wearing a costume, and owners in this market can tell. Paying for it changes what it is: we go wider, we go into the systems and the numbers rather than taking your word for them, and you own a document you can hand to a partner, a banker or a buyer. If you only want a conversation about whether TMI is a fit, book the call and we will tell you honestly — that part has never cost anything.
- 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 the booked call the audit?
- No. What you book from this page is the Fit Call: twenty to thirty minutes, free, to work out whether TMI should come inside this company at all. The audit is agreed separately after it. Plenty of Fit Calls end with us saying the audit is not what you need yet, and that is a good outcome for both of us.
- 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 happens after the audit?
- Three things can, and the roadmap says which. Data Foundation brings the company's records together so they can actually be used — connected, cleaned, digitised, with a source of truth and a decision about who sees what. Implementation builds what the audit found: operations, intelligence, technology, growth, ownership, or data value. TMI Partner is the optional ongoing version. You are never obliged to any of it, and the roadmap is written so another firm could execute it.
- What does the work cost if we go further?
- It depends on what the audit finds, which is why we will not quote the build before doing it. Starting prices for every category are published on the pricing page, so you can see the shape of it before you ever speak to us.
STAGE 00 — FREE
START WITH
A FIT CALL.
Nobody buys the audit cold. Submit your information and book a Fit Call: twenty to thirty minutes, free, where we work out whether TMI should come inside this company at all. If the answer is no, we will say so on that call.
- 01
Submit your information
Name, email, company, phone, and what is most in the way. About a minute. - 02
Book the Fit Call
Twenty to thirty minutes, free. The calendar opens the moment you submit. - 03
We decide together
Whether the audit is the right next step, and whether it runs in person or by phone. - 04
The audit, then the roadmap
$5,000. Ten areas scored out of 100, and the Intelligent Company Roadmap.
THE FIT CALL IS FREE
FIT CALL FREE / AUDIT $5,000 / ROADMAP YOURS OUTRIGHTTwenty to thirty minutes
No obligation to buy the audit
We will tell you if TMI is wrong for this
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.
The Fit Call is free. The audit is $5,000 and the roadmap is yours. Call (337) 450-9795 or book below.