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Your salary bill is your biggest cost.See what it’s actually buying.

Intian is activity-based management for your business, mapping every activity to what it costs, why it exists and who owns it, so a consulting firm is replaced by a system and support when you actually need it.

What the work is, why it exists, who does it. Model a change and watch what happens.

42%

Org health score

Non-ROI admin$12,400AUD per month

This is modelled rather than applied, so nothing changes until you decide it should.

What usually happens

It just accumulated.

On paper the structure is fine, but in practice it was built reactively without the data to inform the decisions, which shows up whether you’re about to grow or about to tighten.

Line of sight to value is lost

Time goes to coordinating, chasing and reporting, which keeps things moving but pushes nothing forward that a customer would actually pay for.

You pay twice for the same task

Two teams solve the same problem separately because neither of them knows the other is doing it, and it only surfaces when somebody happens to compare the two outputs.

You’re about to hire

Everyone says they’re flat out so you open a role, but nobody can say which work the new person is actually taking off which desk.

Then someone resigns

And you find out what they were quietly carrying, usually while writing a job ad for a role that no longer matches what they did.

What you get

A number you can act on.

Every activity is scored against duplication, cost and capability, and it updates as the business moves so it’s current whenever you need it.

Strategic return

Whether the daily work is actually delivering the strategy.

Effort

Where the effort sits against where you assumed it did.

Cost

What each activity costs and what a change would save.

Benchmark

How your split compares with organisations like yours.

See what is inside

Where the week actually goes

5%Strategicvs 13% benchmark
41%Business-as-usualvs 37% benchmark
54%Adminvs 50% benchmark

Key analysis

Half the week is going to admin and only 5% to strategy, against a benchmark of 13%.

How it works

Six steps on a loop.

Discovery shows what is really happening, execution changes it and measures the result, and step 6 feeds back into step 1 so the model never ages.

Phase 1DiscoverySee what is really happening across your current state, including the cost and the blind spots.
Onboarding and analysis surveys1

Analysis

Onboarding and analysis surveys

Upload your employee list and trigger the first survey to establish a baseline.

Current state ecosystem built2

Mapping

Current state ecosystem built

A living model of activities, teams and resource allocation across the business.

Capability gaps and org health score3

Diagnosis

Inefficiencies and org health score

Duplicative work, non-ROI spend and strategic weaknesses come into focus.

Phase 2ExecutionTake action and improve. Run the change as a simulation first, then activate it.
Planning and modelling4

Improvement

Planning and modelling

Model changes to activities and roles, and watch cost and score move before anyone is affected.

Live updates and suggestions5

Action

Live updates and suggestions

Apply the change, notify the people it touches and see performance shift in real time.

Adaptive strategy and KPIs6

Control

Adaptive strategy and KPIs

Organisational health tracked as a live KPI, feeding straight back into step 1.

↻ Which is rather the point, because a consultant stops at step 3.

More on the method behind it →

What it asks of you

You hear it from your people.

Leaders describe the organisation as it was designed, the people doing the work describe how it actually runs and the gap between them is the finding.

You and a key decision maker

Onboarding and setup

We set the business up together, adding the company detail and uploading the employee list.

Employees, once

Initial activity survey

Your people input their work arrangement, time split and skills in their own words rather than having it assumed.

Manager

Audit survey

A manager reviews and approves so the data is vetted and accurate.

Employees, fortnightly

Pulse survey

A short fortnightly update on activities, time and skills, keeping the model live.

This isn’t a timesheet and nobody is tracked by the minute. Your people never log in or learn a system, they answer a short survey by link, and the 2 included licences see the analysis and recommendations.

Why not a consultant

You know how this ends.

The same interviews produce the same findings you half suspected already, in a deck that’s stale by the time you can act on it.

A consulting engagement
Intian
What you get
A deck built from interviews and a sample of your data.
A live model of every activity, its cost and its owner.
How long it stays true
Accurate the day it lands. Stale by the time you act.
Recalculates every fortnight as the business moves.
Getting hold of someone
Every question is a scope conversation, billed by the hour.
Call me, on the basis that thinking a decision through isn’t an invoice.
Cost and coverage
A project quote covering the people in the room.
A monthly fee, 2 licences, every employee in the model.

Worth 20 minutes?

I’ll show you the model running on a business about your size, and you’ll know inside 5 minutes whether it’s any use.

Book 20 minutesOr send an email