Is the duct tape holding your business together a risk yet?

The spreadsheets and workarounds got you here. Will they get you through next year? This is a 10-point check for founders and operations leaders, and it gives you an honest read on whether the setup running your business has become a risk worth fixing.

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Mark each statement that is true for your business.

Answer for how things work today, not how you are working to fix them. Your result appears below.

Only one person really understands the spreadsheet or tool the business depends on, and things would stall if they left. An automation or integration has failed quietly, and you found out from a customer or a missed order rather than from an alert. Real revenue moves through these spreadsheets and tools every week. You cannot add the people, customers, or volume you want because the current setup will not support it. Customer or partner data lives in places you would rather it did not. Bringing on a new client or employee means a manual checklist that someone has to remember to follow. Pulling your monthly numbers means exporting files and reconciling them by hand. You have hit something your current tools simply cannot do, so a person fills the gap by hand. You pay for several tools that only half-talk to each other, so the same information gets entered more than once. You have considered building something custom before and set it aside because it felt too slow or too expensive.

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Worried this means six months and a six-figure budget?

That number comes from the old way of building. With a senior engineer using an AI-augmented workflow, the kind of fix these risks usually call for is measured in weeks, not quarters, and it starts with a small, fixed-scope step. You get software your own team can run and maintain, documented from the start. See how I work and AI and your IP.

This check comes from Michael Pellegrin, who has spent 20 years building software systems and now does that work for growing businesses through Pelican Digital Pathways. The senior engineer who builds your fix is the same person who takes your call.

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