Free operations checkYour growth is being held back by manual operations
Invoices, supplier messages, stock changes, orders, discrepancies, spreadsheets, till systems, ERP inputs, email, WhatsApp, and paperwork all arrive from different places. And someone still has to join the dots by hand.
This is a practical diagnostic that shows whether your business is operationally scalable, or quietly dependent on human effort holding it together.
Takes about 5 minutes. No sign-up needed to see your results.
What the research says
11 hours a week
UK small business owners spend on admin, nearly twice the time they spend growing the business.
American Express SME Barometer, 2026
More than half
of UK small business owners say paperwork gets in the way of running their business.
American Express SME Barometer, 2026
Over 60%
of stock records in a European retail study didn't match what was actually on the shelf.
Oliva et al., 2015
Up to 18%
of the food UK hospitality businesses buy is thrown away before it reaches a customer.
WRAP
And the question most owners can't answer with confidence: if you stepped away for a week, would it all still run?
Most of this time is invisible, because nobody measures it. This diagnostic does, for your business, in 5 minutes.
A clear read on
Manual coordination risk
How exposed you are to manual coordination risk.
Human effort masking weakness
Where human effort is masking systemic weakness.
Where time and money go
Where your time is quietly going: eight areas, scored and ranked.
Room to scale
Whether you can add sites, suppliers, or product lines without admin outpacing revenue.
What you'll get
Your verdict
Operationally scalable, at risk, or held together by people.
Your Manual Load Score
How much of your operation runs on its own, out of 16.
Your top three areas
With one practical thing you can do about each this week.
For businesses running on an ERP, a till, spreadsheets, or all three.
Takes about 5 minutes. Your results appear instantly.