What actually happens in a Consult — The Plan.

A Consult — The Plan — is a focused piece of diagnostic work, priced per job like everything in the Workshop: we look at how your business actually runs — where the hours go, where enquiries leak, what tools you already use — and hand you a plain-English plan naming the few places AI would genuinely save time or money, the places it wouldn't, and what each fix costs. It exists so you can spend hundreds deciding about thousands, rather than the other way round.

It earns its price when a business has real recurring admin, real enquiry volume, or a nagging sense of leaking time but no clarity about where the leak is. It's a poor purchase when the answer is already obvious — if you know the one job that hurts, say so and we'll quote the fix directly, skipping the diagnosis you've already done. And if your operation is genuinely light — few customers, thin admin — the free tools plus a blunt conversation with me will usually conclude 'keep your money', at which point buying a Consult to hear it formally would be a strange use of money. We say this in writing because the anti-sell is the sell: the plan is only worth buying because we'd tell you not to.