The Business Still Runs On A Spreadsheet

Somewhere there is a file that schedules, prices, or invoices, that one person understands, and that nobody has a copy of. It started as a convenience. It is now an application.

What one day without it costs

Six lines people forget to add up. Put your own numbers in and the sheet does the rest. Nothing you type here is sent anywhere.

What one day without it costs
Wages still being paid The people who cannot do their job until the file is back, at what the hours cost you.
Work that was due out today The jobs that did not ship, get billed, or get filed, and do not simply move to tomorrow.
Orders that go elsewhere The customers who needed an answer today and found somebody else who had one.
Rebuilding it by hand What it takes to reconstruct the last version anybody trusts, from memory and from paper.
Overtime catching up The evenings and the weekend that put the week back where it was supposed to be.
The conversation afterward The one with the customer, the auditor, or the owner. Put a number on it, because it has one.
Cost of one day @SUM(D9..D14)	$0

Most owners have never added this up. It is the cheapest number to find out and the most expensive one to guess at.

What we look at first

The file the business depends on, where it lives, and how many copies of it there really are.
Who can open it, who can change it, and whether anybody would notice if they did.
What the work does on the day the file is not there, which is a question with an answer.
Whether it should become a real application, or stay a spreadsheet that is properly looked after.

How it goes

1. We find out what it does

Not the file. The job the file has quietly taken on, and who depends on the answer it gives them.

2. You get the arithmetic in writing

What losing it would cost in hours, and what protecting it or replacing it would cost. Both numbers, side by side.

3. You pick the honest option

Sometimes that is a proper application. Often it is the same spreadsheet, backed up, version controlled, and no longer living on one laptop.

Enter your details

Tell us what the file does. You will get a straight read on it from a person, whether or not you hire us.

Type the numbers you already know. The cell that matters is the one at the bottom.

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