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The Duct-Tape Scorecard

10 signs your business has outgrown its spreadsheets.

Every growing business hits the point where the spreadsheet that used to help starts hurting. This one-page scorecard lists the ten signs — check the ones that sound familiar, add up your score, and see exactly where you stand.

// the 10 signs

  1. 01The business runs on 5+ spreadsheets that only one person truly understands.
  2. 02You copy-paste the same data between systems — QuickBooks, email, scheduling — every week.
  3. 03Your "automation" is a pile of Zapier zaps nobody has fully mapped.
  4. 04Critical job and customer info lives in text messages and someone's head.
  5. 05The same information gets typed into two or three different tools.
  6. 06Pulling a simple report takes a day of manual assembly.
  7. 07If a key employee quit tomorrow, critical process knowledge would walk out with them.
  8. 08You've outgrown a core tool but dread migrating off it.
  9. 09Customers have noticed mistakes caused by manual handoffs.
  10. 10You can't answer "how is the business doing?" without a day of digging.

// what your score means

0–3

Holding together

Keep an eye on it — revisit this in 6 months.

4–6

Duct-tape danger zone

Your systems are quietly costing you hours every week.

7–10

Time for a Systems Audit

The duct tape is structural now.

// Get the printable scorecard

Score your business in five minutes.

Enter your email and the one-page PDF is yours — print it, check the boxes with your team, add up your score.

One email with your scorecard. No newsletter, no drip campaign.

// scored 4 or higher?

The Systems Audit turns your score into a plan.

The scorecard tells you where it hurts. The Systems Audit — $1,500 fixed fee, 1–2 weeks — maps every tool, workflow, and handoff in your business and hands you a prioritized roadmap you can act on, whether you build with us or not.