Succedro — The free Owner's Audit, and the ninety days after

Where are you heading?

Two doors. One audit.

Finishing well

Ready to stop. The business isn't.

You know roughly when. What you don't know is what a buyer would say about it, and whether it would survive a month without you. The audit shows you, privately, while there is still time to change the answer.

Growing past yourself

Busy, but not moving.

A good month means you worked more. Your phone comes on holiday. Decisions queue on your desk. You are not short of effort; you are the ceiling. The audit finds the one layer where your hours are the limit.

Most owners find out how far in they are the first time they try to step away. Usually on a beach, with the phone ringing.

Why it starts with questions

Answering the questions is already the first step.

When people are asked to predict what they will do, slightly more of them go on to do it. Psychologists call this the question-behaviour effect. A review that pooled 116 tests, with about 55,000 people, found it small but reliable, and strongest when people predict their own behaviour over a short time.

So the audit ends by asking what you will change first, and whether you think you'll start this week. A week later I ask how it went. One email, from me, not a sequence. The effect is small. That is its real size and I am not going to dress it up.

Source: Wood and colleagues, "The impact of asking intention or self-prediction questions on subsequent behavior: a meta-analysis", Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2016.

The free audit

What you see the moment you finish

Six numbers, twenty questions, and three about the life you want. The read-out comes out of fixed rules, the same for everyone, and it stays on your screen. No person reads it unless you send it to yourself. Then it lands with me, and I am the only one who sees it.

The life you said you wantIn your own words, at the top.
Where the business standsSix layers, scored from your answers. Which hold, which don't.
What comes firstThe one layer to start with, and why.
Three leversThe moves that matter most for where you are heading.
The things only you doThe five that stop when you are away. One of them is the ninety days' work.
Your own first stepWhat you said you will change first. We ask in a week whether it started.

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The 90-Day Program

The audit shows where it is locked. The ninety days move it.

Most owners already know what to change. What they don't have is a plan that fits a real week, and one person who expects them to do it and notices when they don't. That person is me. Nobody else is in the room.

Your full report, within 48 hoursEvery question explained, layer by layer. The memo a buyer would write and never show you. I read it before you do.
Three private calls with meWe read your report together in the first week. We check what moved around day 45. We read your before and after at the end. Just you and me.
One handover, chosen togetherOne thing that only you do today. The aim: by day 85 it has run twice without you.
A plan sized in your hoursNinety days, three phases. A first change under way inside 14 days.
Five short lettersDays 7, 18, 30, 60 and 85. Reply with one word. I read every reply and answer one line within two working days.
A second look at day 85The same questions again, and the same six numbers. One page shows what moved. Your answers, side by side, not my opinion of them.

What it is not. It will not put a value on your business, and nobody here is a broker. It is not legal, tax or financial advice; where a step needs that, the report names the professional to ask. Nobody writes your processes for you. You do the work; we make it smaller and put it in order.

I take up to four new owners a month, because every call is with me and I read every report before it goes out. That is the limit of one person's calendar, not a marketing number. The terms, the agreement and the guarantee are on the program page.

See the program Or come to a free session first

Free, once a month

How to read your audit

You will not be asked to speak or to share anything about your business. I walk through a sample audit and a sample report, take the questions from the chat, and explain how the program works. Forty-five minutes, live, me on camera, you with your coffee.

First Thursday of the month, 18:00 Madrid time (17:00 London). Next session: [date].

One reminder two days before. Nothing else.

A note for you

For 25 years, companies brought me in to look at them honestly — as a management consultant, interim manager and auditor (CISA), for names like Arthur Andersen, KLM, Vodafone, Volvo Trucks and Wizz Air. Never to flatter anyone. Just to see what’s really there, say it straight, and leave the place better than I found it.

So let me be straight about what this is. I’m not going to promise I’ll fix every flaw in your business — that promise is always bigger than anyone can keep, and it’s how you spot someone selling you something. What I do is simpler: I help you step out of the owner’s seat and look at your company the way an objective auditor does — which territories actually deserve your attention, and where you stand against the market standard.

The audit is free, and it is yours whatever you do next. What I charge for is the ninety days after it. I read everything you answered. We talk three times. One thing leaves your hands, and at the end you see what moved in your own answers. Where you fall short, you get the moves, not a promise about what they are worth.

That’s it. No hype, no rescue promised — just an honest look, a baseline against the standard, and the moves to close the distance. I’m here to serve, not to sell you an illusion.

— Tamas Csikvari · LinkedIn ↗

Plain answers

What owners ask before they start

Why is the audit free?

Because answering the questions is already useful, and you should see what you're dealing with before you pay anyone a cent. I charge for the ninety days, because that is where the work is, and where my time goes.

I don't plan to sell. Is this for me?

Yes. You start with the life you want, not with an exit. If that is three weeks off a year and your evenings back, the plan is built for that.

I'm too small. It's just me, or me and two people.

Questions that don't fit a business your size are left out of the score. For a solo owner the plan leans on writing things down and on tools, rather than on hiring.

Who reads my answers?

Your free read-out comes from fixed rules; no person sees it unless you send it to your email, and then only I do. If you join the program, I read your answers and your report before it reaches you. To draft the report's wording, your answers also pass through an AI service under a client number, not your name. Nothing that could identify you is ever published. And every email you ever send to this address is read by me, not a team, not a bot.

Is this written by AI?

Partly, and we label it. The scores come from fixed rules, the same for every owner. An AI model drafts the report wording from your answers and our method. I read and correct every report before you get it.

Can I do it in Spanish?

Yes. The questionnaire, the read-out, the report and the program letters are in Spanish. The three calls are in English: if you manage in English, you add them; if not, you take the written program, at a lower price. Every Spanish report is reviewed by me, a person, in its English version; the Spanish is a translation of what I read, and it says so.