Free resource · 20 minutes

Find out which of your tasks
are ready to automate.

Five structured questions. A scoring matrix. A 30-day starter plan. Most small businesses spending 10+ hours a week on repeating admin can identify their first automation candidate in under 20 minutes.

8.8h Avg. weekly admin per employee
20 min To complete the audit
Free No strings attached
5 diagnostic questions that surface your highest-value automation targets
An ROI calculator: hours saved × your hourly rate = your number
A priority matrix: impact vs. implementation complexity for every task
A 30-day action plan: starting from what you already have
What automation genuinely can and cannot do (no hype)

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The Workflow Audit

5 questions. 20 minutes. Your answer.

8 pages Print-ready PDF MEIKAI method

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Eight pages. One clear answer.

The Workflow Audit walks you through the same diagnostic framework MEIKAI uses in the first week of every Clarity Scan engagement. Adapted so you can run it yourself.

Section 01

Where does your time actually go?

A structured inventory of every repeating task your team performs: with a simple test for which ones follow a predictable enough pattern to automate.

Section 02

What breaks when something is late or wrong?

Consequence mapping: which tasks carry downstream risk, and which are genuinely low-stakes. This separates automation candidates from things you should leave alone.

Section 03

Where does information fall through the gaps?

A checklist of the 12 most common data-loss points in small service businesses: from re-keying across tools to verbal handoffs that never get written down.

Section 04

What would recovered time actually buy?

An ROI calculator. Take the hours a task consumes per week, multiply by your real cost of that time, and you have a number to work with: not a vague "productivity gain".

Section 05

Priority matrix: impact vs. complexity

Plot every candidate task on a two-axis grid. The top-left quadrant (high impact, low complexity) tells you exactly where to begin.

Section 06

Your 30-day starter plan

Week-by-week milestones, starting with tools you already pay for. No new software budget required for the first sprint.

Worksheets, not slides.

Every page is a working tool: tables to fill in, questions to answer with your team, a matrix to complete. No abstract frameworks, no jargon glossaries.

Page 3

Task inventory worksheet

A table to list every repeating task, estimate its weekly hours, and rate its automation potential in three dimensions.

Page 4–5

Consequence & data-loss checklist

12-item grid covering the most common failure points: re-keying, verbal handoffs, Excel-as-database, and more.

Page 6

ROI calculator

Hours per week × your hourly rate × 48 working weeks. Simple arithmetic. A concrete number to bring to any internal conversation.

Page 7

Priority scoring matrix

Plot each task on impact vs. implementation complexity. The upper-left quadrant is your starting point.

Done the audit. Ready for the full picture?

The Clarity Scan is the professional version: a 5-day MEIKAI engagement that maps your workflows, benchmarks your tools, and delivers a written implementation plan.

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