The Return Read.
One workflow, five business days, and a straight answer about whether software should touch it at all.
What you get
Pick the thing that eats the most time. I follow it end to end — who touches it, what they re-type, where it stalls, what it costs you in hours and in dollars as it stands today.
You come away with a written verdict: leave it alone, fix it with something you already own, buy something off the shelf, or build. If it should be built, you get a fixed price for the build in the same document.
Independence is the product
The people who’ll look at this for free all make their money building it. None of them will ever say “this is fine, leave it alone” — and that is the most valuable sentence in the document, because it is the one that costs me money to write.
Some of these end with me talking someone out of a build. That’s still the read doing its job.