Ninety-two questions about your salon. A roadmap that knows what has to happen first.
Ask any AI what to automate and you get twenty good ideas in no particular order. This tells you which one has to be first, which three break if you do them out of order, and how much of your own week is going where it should not.
What comes back
Not a score. Not a list of symptoms. A build order, with the dependencies marked, written so you could hand it to your own people or your own AI and actually get something built.
Findings from your answers
Every item says which answer produced it. Nothing generic to restaurants gets bolted on to pad the report.
Things you never mentioned
Groundwork you did not raise, included because something you did raise cannot be built without it first.
What the current way costs
Hours per week or month where we can estimate it honestly from your answers. Time, not invented dollar figures.
Who should do each one
You, someone on your team, a free call with software you already pay for, or someone comfortable with APIs and databases.
What not to automate
The work that should stay in a person's hands, and the work that is a good idea later and a bad one right now.
A prompt for each phase
Copy one block into whichever AI you use. It carries that phase only, so you get help finishing it rather than a fresh list of everything.
Why the order matters more than the list
Here is a real chain out of the restaurant map. Every step depends on the one above it, and the thing most owners want to buy first sits at the bottom.
Getting your own time back
- Work out where your hours actually go for one week
- Get formulas and client history into the system rather than a notebook
- Separate what only you can do because of access from what needs judgment
- Fix the access ones, which are settings rather than delegation
- Reduce your own column gradually rather than announcing a date
Most owners try to step back by telling clients. Clients follow people, so it only works if whoever takes over can do the same work, and that depends on formula records nobody has written down yet. The order is what decides whether a quarter of the book leaves at once.
What it covers
33 areas, from the systems every business runs to the ones only a salon has.
Bookings & chairs
Online booking, deposits and no-shows, rebooking, walk-ins, chair utilisation
Product
Professional use against retail, stock counts, supplier ordering, stock value
Team & renters
Commission and rent, renter agreements and insurance, licences, system access
Client records
Formulas and history, contact records, enquiries that went nowhere
Your own time
Where your hours go, what only you can do, cover when you are out
Files & software
What you pay for, what connects, where messages land, your website
$995one time
Findings on screen the moment you finish. The full reviewed report by email within 72 hours.
- 92 questions across 19 short pages, about 30 minutes
- 42 to 77 sequenced findings with dependencies marked
- What each one costs you in time now, itemised
- What technology replaces the manual work, on every item
- 183 documented things that trip people up in your trade
- A copyable AI prompt for each phase
- Read by a systems architect before it is sent
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Questions
How long does the questionnaire take?
About 30 minutes. 92 questions across 19 short pages, nearly all of them tap to answer. Your answers stay on the page until you submit, so you can stop and come back.
Why can I not just ask AI what to automate?
You can, and it will give you twenty good ideas with no order to them. It will not tell you which one has to be first, or that two of them will produce nothing until a third is done. The order is the part that decides whether any of it works, and it is the part a general model has no way to know about your business.
Is the report generated by AI?
No. Your answers run through a rules engine built on a dependency map we wrote. Your answers never pass through a third-party model. A systems architect reads the roadmap before it is delivered, and the report says who reviewed it and when.
What does the report actually contain?
Between 42 and 77 findings grouped into phases, each with what to do, how long it takes, who should do it, what has to happen first, what finishing it unblocks, and what technology replaces the manual work. Plus roughly 87 hours a month of current manual effort, itemised, and what you should not automate.
Will it tell me what to charge, or what to spend?
No. We are not business, marketing or legal advisors. We look at where work is manual, where the same information gets entered twice, where systems do not talk to each other, and what technology would replace that. What you do with the time you get back is yours.
Can I do the work myself?
Most of it. A typical salon report has around 25 items the owner can do alone, 26 somebody on the team can handle, and 10 that take one free call with software you already pay for. About 16 need somebody comfortable with APIs and databases.
How does the $500 credit work?
$500 of what you paid for this Operations Audit can be applied toward a consultation, the Business Systems Audit, or implementation work within one year of purchase. There is no project minimum. One credit per business, non-transferable.
What happens to my answers?
They are stored for three years so we can regenerate your report if you need it, and deleted on request at any time. They are not sold, shared, or used to train anything.
Not sure it is worth $995 yet?
Tell us what software you use and we will show you what is already known to break between those systems. Two minutes, no email, no account. Plenty of people work through that and never buy anything.
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