# Operations Audit, $597 | The Coastal Collaborative

Source: https://www.thecoastalcollab.com/operations-audit

Operations Audit

## Somebody competent, actually looking.

Five or more tools that do not talk to each other, and a process that repeats every week. You know roughly where it hurts. This is the part where somebody finds out why.

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What you get

### Three things, and you keep all three no matter what you decide afterward.

This takes about a week and it ends with a walkthrough call, not a PDF in your inbox and silence.

#### Me in the actual backend

Your CRM, your forms, your automations, your email. Not a questionnaire about them. I go through your business the way one of your customers would, filling things out, booking things, waiting for the emails that were supposed to arrive.

#### A map of what is broken, duplicated, and costing hours

Every leak, every misfire, every dead end, and every step somebody is still doing by hand that a machine should have picked up two years ago. Written down, in one place, with what each one costs you.

#### A prioritized fix list you keep either way

Ranked by what it costs you, not by how easy it is to fix. The do-it-yourself items are marked, and I mark the ones you genuinely do not need me for. You keep the whole thing whether or not you ever hire me.

The number

$597

One time. Two to three hands-in-the-backend hours at roughly $200 an hour, which is what it costs to have somebody go through your accounts properly instead of guessing from the outside. It credits in full toward a retainer inside 60 days.

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What it is really for

### It scopes the retainer so nobody has to sell one.

Most people who ask me about ongoing help do not actually know what they need every month, and I am not going to quote a number at somebody based on a vibe. After this I know what your months look like, you know what I found, and the conversation about whether a retainer makes sense becomes a short one with real numbers in it.

Plenty of audits end with me saying you do not need a retainer. That is a fine outcome and it happens more than you would think. [The retainers are here](https://www.thecoastalcollab.com/retainers) if you want to see what they cost before you spend anything.

Before you book

### The questions people ask.

#### What does the $597 Operations Audit actually check?

#### How is this different from the free quiz?

#### How long does it take?

#### What if I just want to fix it myself?

#### Does this credit toward anything?

#### What do you need from me?

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