Free systems audit · normally £495
Where your week actually goes, written down.
A working session and a written document: what happens now, where the time goes, what should be built, what should be bought off the shelf, what should be left alone, and what each option costs. Normally £495, free for a limited time.
Werehouse Media is offering a free systems audit for UK businesses, normally £495, for a limited time. It is a manual process audit: a twenty-minute interview with the people who actually do the work, a look at the systems as they are used rather than as they are described, and a written document at the end. It covers what is being done by hand that should not be, which software the business already pays for that could be joined up, what a bespoke build would cost against what an off-the-shelf product would cost, and which of those is the honest recommendation.
The most common conclusion is that a product you can already buy covers most of it, and the audit says so and names the product. There is no card, no obligation and nothing to cancel. It is the same audit that normally costs £495, given free so a business can find out what it needs before spending anything.
What you get
A document, and a verdict you can act on without us.
Not a scorecard, not a PDF generated by a tool. We spend time on your business and write down what we found. If it is being found rather than the workload that is the problem, the other one is a free SEO audit.
| A twenty-minute interview | With the people who actually do the work, not only whoever booked the call. Most of what matters comes out of describing a normal Tuesday rather than answering questions about strategy. |
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| Where the time goes | The jobs being done by hand that a machine could do, with a rough number of hours a month attached to each so you can see which one is worth fixing first. |
| What you already pay for | The software already in the business that could be joined up. Most of what looks like a software problem is a joining problem, and joining is far cheaper than replacing. |
| Build, buy, or leave alone | Each option with a cost against it. If a mainstream product covers most of what you need, the audit says so and names the product, even though that is the answer that earns us nothing. |
| What it would cost here | A fixed price for anything we would build, in writing, before you decide anything. You are free to take the document to somebody else, and some people do. |
The audit
Tell us how the work actually moves.
Five short screens, then a check of your answers. About two and a half minutes, and most of it is tapping an answer. Anything marked optional can be skipped. We read your website and what is public about the business first, so we only ask what we cannot look up. We come back within one working day to arrange the interview.
Before you send it
The questions everyone asks.
Is the systems audit really free?
Yes. No card, no trial, no obligation to buy anything afterwards. It normally costs £495 and it is free for a limited time because it is the most honest way to show the standard of the work before anybody spends anything. It is the same audit either way, including its willingness to tell you not to build. When an audit is paid for, the fee is credited in full against builds totalling over £2,000.
What is the catch?
That we hope you like the work enough to consider us for the build. That is the whole of it. You keep the document either way, and you are free to take it to another supplier. Some people do, and it is a reasonable thing to do with it.
Will you tell me not to build anything?
Regularly, and it is most of what the audit is worth. If a mainstream product covers eighty per cent of what you need, buy the product: somebody else spent millions building it and a team maintains it for £40 a month. We write the document to be useful whether or not you ever hire us, so when the honest answer is not to build, that is what it says.
How long does it take?
A twenty-minute interview, and the written document back within a few working days. It is deliberately short: the point is to find the one or two things worth fixing, not to produce a hundred pages nobody reads.
Who needs to be on the call?
Whoever actually does the work, ideally alongside whoever decides the budget. The most useful twenty minutes is usually with the person who has to chase the missing document, not the person who thinks it gets chased automatically.
How is this different from the free SEO audit?
Different question entirely. The free SEO audit looks at whether people can find you. This one looks at what happens after they do: the enquiry, the quote, the job, the chasing and the admin. Businesses often need one and not the other, and if you ask for the wrong one we will say so.
What happens after the audit?
Nothing automatic. If a build makes sense you get a fixed price in writing before anything starts: a single automation from £650, a connected system from £1,950, a bespoke application from £4,500. If a build does not make sense you get told that instead, with the name of what to buy.
Twenty minutes, and you will know.
Whether it is worth building anything, what it would cost, and what you should buy instead if that is the honest answer.