Fixed-scope pilot
Pick the single process that annoys you most. I build it, test it, hand it over and document it, for a fixed $4,950 + GST in about two to three weeks. No report, no roadmap, no retainer.
Why this exists
Most consulting starts with a document. You pay, you receive a considered opinion, and you still have the same problem you had on the day you called. That is a reasonable way to buy when you already trust the person. It is a poor way to start.
So this is the other way round. Something small and real gets built first. You find out how I work, what I am like when something goes wrong, and whether the thing actually helps, before you commit to anything that matters.
Examples
Every quote over a threshold chased on a schedule, with replies landing in one place instead of five inboxes.
The number you rebuild by hand every month, built once, from the source, and refreshed without you.
Two systems that should already talk to each other, connected, with the failure cases handled.
The critical spreadsheet only one person understands, turned into something the team can use and nobody can break.
A daily list of what has gone wrong or is about to, so problems surface instead of being noticed later.
An existing application that mostly works, with the part that does not fixed and documented.
Honesty
A pilot works when the problem is genuinely bounded. It is the wrong first step when the data underneath is a mess, when several systems are tangled together, or when the thing you have described is a symptom of something larger. Building on top of any of those makes the mess move faster.
In those cases the Business Readiness Audit comes first, because mapping it properly is cheaper than building the wrong thing well. I would rather lose the pilot than sell you one that cannot work.
FAQ
One working thing, built, tested and handed over, plus the documentation to run it without me. Not a report and not a recommendation. Scope is agreed in writing before anything starts, and if it turns out to be bigger than a pilot I will tell you before you pay, not after.
Two to three weeks from the scoping call, and about 20 hours of build. That is not a guess: it is the median of every project of this size Emendo has delivered since 2017, measured from time records rather than estimated.
Then it was not a pilot, and I will say so at scoping rather than starting and asking for more later. Where a job is genuinely bigger, the Business Readiness Audit is the honest first step because it maps the whole thing before anyone commits.
Yes. The full $4,950 is credited toward any engagement commenced within 30 days.
Because you have never worked with me, and a working thing proves more than a proposal does. If it goes well the next conversation is easy. If it does not, you have spent $4,950 instead of $25,000 finding out.