THE OPERATIONS AUDIT

Before you automate anything, know what's actually worth automating.

A two-week paid audit that maps your current workflows, identifies the 3–5 highest-ROI automation opportunities, and gives you a written roadmap with cost estimates per opportunity. Whether or not you build with us, the report is yours.

₦750,000 – ₦1,500,0001–2 WEEKSDELIVERED BY THE FOUNDER
DELIVERABLES

What lands in your inbox at the end.

Every audit produces the same six artifacts. No slide decks, no abstract frameworks — material your finance lead and your engineer can both act on.

01

A workflow map of your current operations

Every tool, hand-off, spreadsheet, WhatsApp thread, and informal rule documented as a single diagram. Drawn from interviews with the people doing the work, not assumptions about how it should work.

02

The top 5 automation opportunities, ranked by ROI

Each opportunity stated as a problem, not a tool — what breaks today, how often, and what hours a month it costs you. Ranked by payback period, not by what's interesting to build.

03

Cost and timeline estimates per opportunity

Naira-priced build estimates, ongoing run cost, and a realistic delivery window for each opportunity. Numbers you can take to any vendor, not just us.

04

A recommended sequencing roadmap

Which one to do first, and why — sequenced so each build pays for the next. Includes the dependencies between projects and the points where you'll need to hire instead.

05

A 1-hour walkthrough call to discuss the report

The founder walks your leadership through the findings, answers the obvious "but what about…" questions, and edits the roadmap live based on what you push back on.

06

An NRS-readiness check, attached

A short appendix flagging where your current invoicing, VAT, and WHT handling will or won't satisfy the 2026 e-invoicing rules. Included whether or not e-invoicing is the headline issue.

FIT

You probably need this if

  • Your finance team spends days every month reconciling payments to customers.
  • You've been told you need to comply with the new NRS e-invoicing rules and don't know where to start.
  • You're considering hiring more admin staff and want to know what could be automated instead.
  • You've tried off-the-shelf SaaS and it didn't fit how your business actually runs.
PROCESS

Four weeks, four conversations.

From the first call to the report landing in your inbox. Mostly async; we only take your team's time when there's no substitute for it.

STEP01

Discovery call

30-minute call to understand the shape of the business and confirm the audit is the right fit.

30 MIN · FREE
STEP02

Investigation

We sit in on your operations, interview the people doing the work, and trace every flow end-to-end.

5–7 DAYS · MOSTLY ASYNC
STEP03

Report drafting

We write the report. No back-and-forth — the founder drafts, edits, and stress-tests the numbers.

3–4 DAYS · INTERNAL
STEP04

Walkthrough call

We walk you through the report, answer questions, and hand over the PDF. The engagement ends here.

1 HOUR · DELIVERABLE HANDED OVER
SAMPLE OUTPUT

What the report actually looks like.

An excerpt from a recent audit, anonymized. Every opportunity in the report is written this way: stated, scoped, costed, and tied to a measurable saving.

OPERATIONS AUDITACME TRADING LTDMARCH 2026PAGE 14 / 32

Operations Audit — Acme Trading Ltd, March 2026.

TOP AUTOMATION OPPORTUNITY · #1

Bank reconciliation — match incoming payments to invoices automatically.

Current state

Finance team downloads CSVs from three bank accounts every Friday and manually matches payments to outstanding invoices in a shared Google Sheet. Two people, 6 hours each, 4 Fridays a month. Roughly 11% of payments are mis-matched on first pass and have to be reworked the following week.

Proposed automation

Direct API pull from each bank into a single ledger, with a fuzzy-match engine that pairs incoming payments to invoices using amount, reference, payer name, and timing. Unmatched items surface in an exception queue with an assignable owner. The team approves matches instead of doing them.

Time saved
44hrs / mo
Build cost
₦3.8Mone-off
Payback
4.5months
ROI · 12 MO+ ₦6.4M net(fully-loaded finance hour costed at ₦18,500)
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QUESTIONS

Things people ask.

Five honest answers to the questions that come up before every audit. If yours isn't here, the discovery call is the place for it.

Free audits are sales pitches dressed up as deliverables — the agency's incentive is to find work for itself, not to tell you the truth. Charging for the audit lets us recommend "do nothing yet" or "hire instead" when that's the honest answer. The fee also pays for the founder's time on it, which is the whole point.
The report is yours. Take it to another vendor, to your in-house team, or put it in a drawer for a year. Around a third of audits don't turn into build engagements, and that's by design — the report has to stand on its own to be worth what you paid for it.
Yes — send yours over before the call and we'll sign it, or use ours if you prefer. We also sign a separate, broader NDA before the investigation phase that covers the specific systems and people we'll be looking at.
The audit is fixed-scope, fixed-price, and finishes in two weeks with a written deliverable. Consulting engagements stay open and bill by the hour. We're an engineering practice — every recommendation is something we could build, costed in the same units we'd quote for the build.
Mostly remote. For Kaduna, Abuja, and Lagos clients we come in for one day during the investigation phase to sit with the operations team — that day usually tells us more than the rest of the week combined. For clients outside those cities, we do everything over video and ship the audit at a slightly lower price.
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