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title: "Luke Pierce on X: Nobody wants an audit."
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summary: "Luke Pierce explains how to reframe audits as value-driven assessments with specific promises rather than scrutiny-focused deliverables. He provides naming alternatives and a formula for guaranteeing outcomes (identifying savings/revenue within a timeline or the service is free)."
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# Luke Pierce on X: Nobody wants an audit.

Luke Pierce @lukepierceops Nobody wants an audit. This may seem contradictory but make sure to read this full post. I use the word because every operator in this space knows exactly what I mean by it. But it's not what you sell. An audit is a deliverable. Audit sounds like scrutiny and more work for them. Two things you need here and usually people only have one. First, a name for the mechanism. At Boom we call it a Current State Assessment. 10 examples you can steal: 1. Current State Assessment 2. Operations Blueprint 3. AI Readiness Assessment 4. Workflow Diagnostic 5. Automation Opportunity Map 6. Systems Teardown 7. Company Brain Blueprint 8. Revenue Leak Report 9. Operating System Roadmap 10. Bottleneck Analysis Second, and this is the component that makes it an actual offer, a PROMISE attached to it. A name with no promise behind it is branding. The offer is a number, a deadline, and risk you carry instead of them: "We will identify [$X] in [savings or revenue] within [timeline] through our [name] or you don't pay." Filled in: "We'll find $250K a year in recoverable labor cost across your operation in 14 days with our Current State Assessment, or you don't pay." "40+ hours a week of manual work found, mapped, and ranked by ROI in 10 business days through our Workflow Diagnostic. If we don't hit 40, it's free." "We'll show you exactly where revenue is leaking out of your intake process and what it's costing you annually, in 3 weeks. Fee credited toward the build." Sitting down with their team, pulling apart the tool stack, mapping every workflow and where the data lives. That's the mechanism. That's how you keep the promise. Everything in the post below is what lands on their desk when you do. Sell/focus on the outcome and deliver the audit. Luke Pierce @lukepierceops Jul 27 We charge $3K to $5K for an audit before building anything. Sometimes we'll bake it into the project or start just with the audit. Here's everything we put in the delivery doc: (Make sure to bookmark this one) Section 1. Executive summary. One page. Their situation in 3 Show more