The Audit — $2,500 fixed

One day. Three data leaks costed.
A plan you own either way.

A single-day diagnostic on what your data is doing, what it isn't, and where the money is — written, costed, delivered next business day. Two clean outcomes built into the engagement: take the plans and walk, or sign The Practice from a position of full information.

Price
$2,500
Duration
One day
Deliverable
Next business day
Outcomes
Two, both yours
What you walk away with

Five things, written down, costed, yours.

The Audit ships a single PDF deliverable next business day. Inside that document are five specific outputs — each one named, each one costed where there's a number, each one referenceable in conversations with your team or with whoever you take it to next.

01

Three data leaks, costed in dollars.

The three places your business is losing money or hours every month because data isn't where it should be. With dollar estimates against current operating cost.

02

Five intelligence sources you're missing.

Public data your competitors are using that you aren't — competitor pricing pages, regulatory filings, hiring signals, ad creative, market data. Named, sourced, scoped.

03

A 12-month build plan.

What the architecture should be. What captures to run. What intelligence to monitor. Phased over twelve months, mapped to The Veridicus Method.

04

A Practice proposal.

If The Practice is right for you, the proposal shows exactly what we'd deliver against the plan, on what cadence, at what monthly cost. No PowerPoint. No "let's discuss." A document.

05

One quick-win recommendation.

One thing you can ship in the next 30 days — with or without us — that pays for the audit itself. We've never run an audit where this hasn't existed.

How the day runs

One day on site or on video.
One night on analysis. Deliverable next morning.

No half-engagements. No two-week scoping. The Audit is one calendar day of senior architect time, scheduled in advance, with the deliverable in your inbox before close of business the following day.

9:00 — 10:00

The business map

What you do. Who you do it for. Where the money comes from. The operating reality, not the org chart.

10:00 — 12:00

The data inventory

Every system, every spreadsheet, every flow. What lives where. What talks to what. What doesn't.

12:30 — 14:00

The leak hunt

Where the data is failing the business. Manual entry, double-handling, lost intelligence, missing signals. Quantified.

14:00 — 15:30

The competitive read

What your competitors are publishing publicly that you're not capturing. Pricing, hiring, product, marketing, regulatory.

15:30 — 17:00

The quick-win identification

One thing you can ship inside 30 days. Costed. Sequenced. Often the start of the Practice proposal.

Next day

Deliverable in your inbox

Written report. Five outputs. PDF, 12–18 pages. Delivered before 5pm the following business day.

What's needed from you

Six hours of focused time with one or two people who know how the business actually runs. Access to your current systems for read-only inventory — Xero, your CRM, your project tools, your file storage, whatever you use.

You don't need to prepare anything. Don't tidy your data. Don't dress up your spreadsheets. The Audit works better when we see the operating reality, not the cleaned-up version of it.

  • On-site (Brisbane / Gold Coast / Sunshine Coast) at no additional cost
  • Sydney / Melbourne / Canberra — travel quoted separately, fixed-fee
  • Video — Zoom or Google Meet, same six hours, same deliverable
  • Hybrid — half on-site, half follow-up video — available if it fits the work
The two-outcome rule

What happens after the deliverable lands.

Two outcomes are built into The Audit from day one — and printed on the cover of the deliverable in the same words you're reading here. We tell you about them before you sign. That's the rule.

The Audit delivers plans you own. From here, you can take the plans to your team and build it yourselves — that's a fair outcome and we'll never chase you. Or you can sign The Practice and have us deliver against them. Both are valid. We're paid for the thinking either way.

— Printed on the cover of every Audit deliverable.

Outcome A

You take the plans and walk.

You own the architecture decision. You own the 12-month build plan. You own the quick-win. You own the intelligence map. Take it to your existing dev team, to a contractor, to your nephew who codes — we don't mind. We won't chase you, won't follow up, won't quietly invoice you for "follow-up scoping." Done is done.

Outcome B

You sign The Practice with full information.

You've spent a day with the senior architect, seen exactly what we'd build, seen the plan in writing, seen the proposal in writing. If The Practice is right for you, you sign from a position of full information — not a sales pitch. The Audit fee is deducted from the first month if you sign inside 30 days.

The qualifier

Who the Audit is for — and who it isn't.

Most senior consulting firms tell you everyone is a fit. We don't. The Audit is for a specific shape of business — and where it isn't a fit, we'd rather you know now than after the deliverable is in your inbox.

The Audit is for you if —

  • You run a business doing $2M+ in revenue with 5–80 staff
  • You make decisions and you don't need permission to spend $2,500
  • You suspect there's data in your business you're not using — and intelligence about competitors you're missing
  • You'd rather pay for thinking than have it given to you in a sales call
  • You want to know what The Practice would actually deliver before you commit to it
  • You're prepared to either build against the plan yourself or pay someone to build it for you

The Audit is not for you if —

  • You're pre-revenue or under $1M turnover — wrong stage
  • You're shopping a quote against three other vendors — we don't compete on price
  • You want a free consultation — we don't run those
  • You want us to validate a decision you've already made — we won't
  • You need someone to bypass authentication, scrape behind paywalls, or operate outside the bright lines we draw on data capture
  • You expect the deliverable to be a 60-page PowerPoint — it's an 18-page PDF, written like a document
What $2,500 means

The price is on the page.

No "request a quote." No "let's hop on a call to discuss pricing." $2,500 plus GST, fixed, on signing. The economics behind that number, plainly.

What's included

Senior time
One full day of principal architect time on discovery.
Analysis time
Half a day of write-up and costing the night after.
Deliverable
Written PDF, 12–18 pages, sent next business day.
Travel
SEQ included — Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast. Other AU capitals quoted separately.
30-day clarifications
Email follow-up clarifications for 30 days after delivery, no charge.
IP
You own the deliverable outright. We retain no rights to the plans.

What's not included

Build work
The Audit identifies and plans. Building against the plan is The Practice or an Augmentation.
Implementation
No code ships during the Audit. No systems are changed. The day is diagnosis only.
Slide deck
We do not produce PowerPoint. The deliverable is a written document.
Multi-day scope
The Audit is one day. Larger scoping engagements are quoted separately as paid discovery.
Free anything
The 30-min scoping call before the Audit is free. The Audit is not. We don't do free deliverables.

If you sign The Practice inside 30 days of the Audit, the $2,500 fee is deducted from your first month's invoice. That's the only discount we offer.

Direct answers

The questions that come up most.

Why not just hop on a free call?

Because free calls produce shallow thinking. We can give you a 30-minute scoping call before the Audit, and it's free — but the Audit itself is a day of senior work, and we don't do that for free. Paying for the thinking is what gets you a deliverable instead of a sales pitch.

Will you really not chase me if I take the plans and walk?

Yes. The two-outcome rule is real, it's printed on the cover of the deliverable, and we operate against it. You might get a single follow-up email at the 90-day mark asking how the build went — that's interest, not sales. If you say "we built it ourselves, thanks," that's where the conversation ends.

What if the audit finds nothing?

It won't. In every business there's data that isn't where it should be, and there's intelligence about competitors that isn't being captured. If we genuinely found nothing — which would be a first — we'd refund the fee. We've never had to.

Can my accountant or IT person sit in?

Yes. The Audit is better when the people who actually run the operating systems are in the room. Bring your bookkeeper, your IT support, your operations manager — whoever knows where the data lives. Just keep the headcount to two or three, or the day stops being a working session.

What if I want you to just build the quick-win?

Available as an Augmentation. Once the Audit is delivered, you can buy any Augmentation without signing The Practice. Quick-win builds are typically $4,500–$12,000 depending on scope, scoped and quoted before work begins.

How soon can we run it?

Currently booking the next Audit for July–August 2026. We run one or two per fortnight — not because we can't run more, but because the deliverable has to be written by the same person who ran the discovery, and that's a real bottleneck. Book on the call link to see live availability.

Book it

$2,500. One day. Plans you own either way.

The 30-minute scoping call is free if you want to talk through fit first. The Audit itself is paid, fixed-fee, with two outcomes built into it before you sign.

Email · hello@veridicus.com.au
Calendar · calendly.com/heston-veridicus/30min
Brisbane · Australia-wide