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Found Time

You're running the business. And it's running you.

Why am I still firefighting? Because the business was built around you. We map how it really runs, fix what keeps pulling you back in, and stay alongside you until it passes the 4-Week Holiday Test: a month away, and it runs without you.

Sound familiar?

  • The same problems land on your desk every week
  • Admin eats your evenings and weekends
  • Every decision waits for you
  • Booked appointments that don't turn into sales
  • You know AI could help, but not where to start or who to trust

That isn't a business. It's a job you can't leave.

Run by an operator

  • Turned a £450,000 loss into a £3m profit in two years, across multiple sites
  • 11 years as a fractional sales and revenue director
  • Consulted with three of the Big Four
  • Partner to ICAS and Lloyds Bank for nearly five years

Everything you get

It starts with a Found Time Review, then continues as ongoing oversight for as long as it's useful.

  • Found Time Review: on-site time with you and your team
  • Process mapping of how work actually gets done, not how the org chart says it does
  • Time leaks quantified task by task, in hours per week
  • A plain-English report on where AI helps and where it doesn't
  • An action plan ranked by effort and impact
  • A team briefing that positions AI as extra capacity, not job cuts
  • Ongoing fractional strategic oversight from a former multi-site operator
  • Monthly progress reviews against the 4-Week Holiday Test

What changes

The business stops depending on you for every decision. Your team handles what used to land on your desk. Your evenings come back. Then comes the real test: four weeks away, and the business keeps running.

What it replaces

A management consultant who hands over a report and leaves. An operations director's salary. And your own unpaid overtime.

When the leak is in your sales process

Sometimes the enquiries arrive and the appointments get booked, but the sales don't follow. That isn't a technology problem, and more leads won't fix it.

It's the work our founder, Murray Wilkinson, has done for his whole career: as a sales director, as a fractional sales director across multiple sectors, and as a founder who built his own firm to £4.8m in fee revenue. At Arnold Clark he turned one market area from a £450,000 loss into a £3m profit in two years.

Once your team converts warm enquiries consistently, Revenue Recovery becomes the natural next step, and it's paid from results.

What we fix

  • How quickly booked appointments are followed up, and by whom
  • How quotes are prepared, sent and chased
  • What your team says at the point of sale, and when
  • Who owns each enquiry, from first contact to close
  • Pipeline reporting that shows exactly where deals stall
  • Coaching your team until conversion is consistent

Not sure where to start?

If your team already converts well, most clients begin by recovering lost revenue, which pays for what comes next.

Start with Revenue Recovery

Find out where your week is going.

Book a call and we'll talk through what a Found Time Review would look like for your business. No obligation, no jargon.

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