An operations consultancy for service businesses

Automation is a conclusion, not a starting point.

Most companies are running on assumptions about how they actually work. We help you see it clearly before you spend a dollar changing it.

The problem

Growing a business is rarely a problem of effort.

It gets hard because the work grows faster than the systems around it. Processes that made sense at five people break at twenty. The same task gets done three different ways. Everything important lives in one person's head.

The problem

You can feel it. You just can't always name it.

It rarely shows up as one big problem. It shows up as a dozen small frictions that quietly make the whole business heavier to run.

What we do

We figure out what's actually going on before we recommend a single thing.

Most consultants arrive with the answer already in hand: more automation, a new tool, a bigger tech stack. We do the opposite. We start by understanding how your operation really runs.

What we do

Sometimes the honest recommendation is to build something. Sometimes it's that you don't need us to build anything.

Either way, you'll know the truth about your operation and exactly what to do next.

How we find the truth

We don't just talk to the person at the top.

We talk to your whole operation, from the owner to the front desk to the people doing the work every day.

How we find the truth

How a business really runs is rarely how any one person thinks it runs.

The gap between those two is usually where the friction lives. Hearing the operation from every level is how we find it.

Why URIM is different

The tools everyone's selling get cheaper every year. Knowing which problem actually matters does not.

The Operational Audit

Over six weeks, we interview your team, map how work actually moves, and find the friction costing you time and money.

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You walk away with

01

Findings Report

What we heard, what we saw, and where the two disagree.

02

Friction Map

How work actually moves through the business, and where it catches.

03

Working Prototype

A real, testable version of the one change most worth making.

04

Leadership Presentation

Ends with our single recommendation. Complete on its own.

Who it's for

URIM is built for service businesses that have grown past doing everything by hand but haven't yet built the systems to scale cleanly, roughly $500K to $10M in revenue.

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If you're feeling the friction and you're ready to understand it before you spend money fixing it, we should talk.

Why URIM is different

01.
On one end

Cheap automated assessments

They hand you a checklist of tools to buy, often after a single call with the owner.

02.
On the other

Teams that parachute in

They build you an “intelligence” in a week, cameras rolling.

03.
URIM

We don't assume. We find out.

Both start from the same assumption, that the answer is to build something. We don't assume that. We find out.

Clarity beneath complexity.
Impact beyond insight.