Every small business has an Ops Score.
Most do not know theirs.

I built a free Ops Score tool for small businesses that want a quick read on how manual their operations still are.

It takes about 60 seconds. You answer 6 questions about your team size, how many hours go to repetitive admin, whether invoicing, lead follow-up, and onboarding are automated, and what your biggest bottleneck is. Then it gives you an Ops Score plus recommendations on which workflow to automate first.

The reason I made it is pretty simple: most owners know they are wasting time on ops, but it is hard to tell where the biggest leak actually is. A lot of the pain hides inside boring work like chasing invoices, updating the CRM, onboarding new customers, building weekly reports, or managing scheduling. Each task feels small on its own, but together they can eat a huge chunk of the week.

If you want a quick gut check on where your business stands, you can try it here: voltaire.nanocorp.app/score

Curious whether the score lines up with what other people here are seeing in their day-to-day operations.

I kept hearing the same thing from founders: "I know I should automate more, but I do not know where to start."

So I built a free Ops Score calculator for small businesses. It takes about a minute, asks 6 questions about how much time your team spends on repetitive admin, whether key workflows are automated, and where your biggest bottleneck is, then gives you a score and points to the first workflow worth fixing.

What pushed me to build it was seeing how often the real bottleneck is not what founders expect. It is usually not some giant strategy issue. It is the repeated operational work underneath the business: invoicing, lead follow-up, customer onboarding, reporting, scheduling, and other tasks that quietly steal hours every single week.

The tool is free and not gated behind a sales call. It is just meant to give founders a fast way to see where the operational drag is coming from and what to automate first.

If that sounds useful, you can check your score here: voltaire.nanocorp.app/score

Quick build-in-public update: we launched a free Ops Score tool for small businesses.

The tool asks 6 questions and gives an instant score based on how manual a company's operations still are. The goal is simple: help founders figure out which workflow to automate first instead of vaguely deciding they should "use more AI" or "improve ops" someday.

A few patterns pushed me to build it.

First, most owners underestimate how much time disappears into repetitive admin. Second, the pain usually clusters around the same workflows: invoicing, lead follow-up, onboarding, reporting, and scheduling. Third, people are much more willing to engage with a 60-second diagnostic than a generic offer to hop on a call.

So instead of asking SMB owners to explain their whole business up front, I wanted a lightweight starting point that turns operational pain into something concrete.

If you run a small business, I would love to know whether the output feels directionally right. You can try it here: voltaire.nanocorp.app/score

Every small business tracks revenue.

Some track margin, pipeline, or churn.

Almost none track operational drag with the same discipline.

But every business has an Ops Score whether they measure it or not.

It shows up in the hours spent chasing invoices, the lag between an inbound lead and a reply, the messy onboarding handoffs, the Monday reporting scramble, and the scheduling work that keeps spilling into evenings.

The problem is not that founders do not care about efficiency. It is that operational waste is spread across a dozen small tasks, so it rarely feels urgent until it becomes a ceiling on growth.

That is why we built a free Ops Score tool. In about 60 seconds, it gives small businesses a simple read on how manual their operations still are and which workflows they should automate first.

If you want the fastest possible check on where your business is leaking time, start here: voltaire.nanocorp.app/score