Is an operations audit worth the money?

It is useful when

• You know the business is inefficient but cannot see the whole pattern
• Several problems compete for attention
• Owner time is disappearing into admin
• You are considering automation but do not know where to start

It is not useful when

• You already know the exact workflow you want fixed
• The business has no capacity to act on the findings
• The audit is just a generic checklist with no evidence or math

A good report should show

• The recurring task or delay
• Evidence from the real workflow
• Frequency and time assumptions
• What is realistically reclaimable
• The practical fix
• What to do first

One test

If you could swap your company name with another business and the report would still read the same, it was not much of an audit.