The method in full, and the one decision inside it that owners get offered wrong. Everything else on this site — the four case studies and the twelve calculators — hangs off these two pages. Written by the person who did the jobs before rebuilding them.
Where the hours go, what order to fix things in, when to build and when to buy, what it costs and what it returns. The pillar every case study and calculator hangs off.
Read the guide →Three routes, not two. When a product already knows your rules, when connecting what you have is enough, and when only a build will do — with the cost of each and the ways each fails.
Read the guide →The systemising guide. It is the map: where the hours go in a trade business, what order to fix them in, and how you know it worked. The build-or-buy guide answers the question that comes up halfway through it — whether any of this needs custom software — and most readers find the answer is 'less than you think'.
They are written from inside horticulture, fencing, glazing and delivery businesses, and the pattern generalises to any trade that measures or specifies something, prices it from a book, moves it through several pairs of hands and delivers it. The case studies are the evidence; the calculators let you put your own figures on it.
Four case studies with the arithmetic shown, twelve calculators that load with real figures, and these two guides. There is no blog. Anything else gets written when the same question has come up three times on a call.
The businesses in the guides are written up in full in the case studies, the numbers are yours to run in the calculators, the engagement starts with the operations audit, and the short version is on the byHoratio homepage.
And if a normal day still can't happen without you, that's the conversation. Twenty minutes, no deck, no pitch.
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