You usually already know which process it is.
Every week, time disappears into copying data, checking work and chasing information. We measure what one process really costs and only build what demonstrably gives time back. The first conversation takes 45 minutes and costs nothing.
No presentation, no demo and no sales pitch.
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The most common problems
Recognise this? There is usually enough to measure.
What does that one manual process really cost each year?
- 3
- 12 hours
- €45
€72,900
3 people12 hours45 weeks€451,620 hours
- Per working day
- €324
- Potential loss per year
- €72,900
- Diagnosis, one-off
- €1,0001.37% of that
Calculated using 45 working weeks, without adding overhead, errors or lead time. This is an estimate, not a measurement. We perform that measurement during the investigation using your own system's history.
How it usually works — and how it works with Accel.
The difference is not more advice but the order. The usual route starts with a solution and discovers the problem later. With Accel, we first measure whether solving it is worthwhile at all.
- 01
A proposal based on a wish list.
We first count what the process costs each year.
- 02
An open-ended project billed by the hour.
One process, fixed price, four to six weeks.
- 03
A report with recommendations.
What we deliver runs in production.
- 04
A new system intended to replace the old one.
We build against your ERP. Your IT partner keeps their work.
- 05
There is always a follow-up project.
If there is nothing to gain, we say so and stop.
Forty-five minutes, with you doing most of the talking.
By video, or at your office if that works better. One person from our team. No account manager listening in and no second call with a specialist.
- Part 010 to 5 min00–05minutes
Who is here, and why.
We introduce ourselves in two sentences and you tell us who has joined. No company presentation. You have just read it.
After this part
Everyone knows what this conversation should and should not produce.
- Part 025 to 25 min05–25minutes
You describe the process.
In your own words, from beginning to end. We only interrupt to count: how often per week, how many people, how many minutes each time and where it stalls. This is most of the conversation.
After this part
A shared picture of where time disappears and who deals with it every day.
- Part 0325 to 40 min25–40minutes
We tell you what we see.
Which of the three patterns it probably is, which part is judgement and which is data entry, and which systems we would build against. Roughly, with the uncertainty stated out loud.
After this part
A first, honest estimate of what looks solvable and what should remain human work.
- Part 0440 to 45 min40–45minutes
Continue or stop.
There are two outcomes. If there is something worth pursuing, we propose an investigation with a date and price. If there is not, we say so and stop there.
After this part
A clear yes or no. A paid step never begins automatically.
At a Dutch wholesaler with around thirty people, the entire purchasing and quality process ran in one system. The company was doing well. That matters, because this is not a story about a company that had ground to a halt.
Our audit was the first time that process had been written down from beginning to end. It was live, business-critical and impossible to read.
What emerged was not what anyone expected. The system considered lightweight inside the company turned out to hold most of the truth. And the rule determining which quality check blocks a supplier payment was written down nowhere. It lived in one person's head, directly in the path through which money left the business.
- 247
- process components across seven departments
- 54
- forms referenced by the process
- 0
- of them existed as recorded definitions
- 4 weeks
- until the first working component
WHAT WE CANNOT SHOW YET
We do not yet know what this saves the company each year. Nobody measured how many hours the old process took beforehand, and without a baseline there is no final measurement. We are now reconstructing it from the old system's history. Once complete, we will publish the number and the method. Until then, there is no percentage here.
The conversation is free. Only the investigation costs money.
It costs nothing to discuss your process with us. Only when we both see enough potential do you receive a fixed scope, start date and price for the Diagnosis. Nothing begins without your approval.
Accel Diagnosis
This is the paid Diagnosis, not the first conversation. You receive the process's current cost in hours per week and euros per year, what can and cannot be solved, one working component, and two or three routes with a fixed price and timeline.
- What the process currently costs in hours per week and euros per year, including the measurement.
- The complete process in one diagram, including steps that were documented nowhere.
- What can be solved, what cannot and which part should remain human work.
- One working component connected to your own systems, however small.
- Two or three routes forward, each with a price and timeline.
Continue with implementation within 30 days and we deduct the €1,000.
- 01Free 45-minute conversation
- 02You first receive a scope, date and fixed price
- 03The paid Diagnosis starts only after your approval
That is not a failed investigation. It is what you paid to learn.
- 01
After the form
If your company does not fit what we do, you see that immediately instead of after three emails.
- 02
After the conversation
If we see nothing worth pursuing, we say so during the conversation. Cost so far: nothing.
- 03
After the investigation
If the number disappoints, it stops. Cost so far: €1,000, and you know what you did not know before.
What people usually ask us first.
Feel free to email us. We answer ourselves and no sales sequence follows.
accel@vertuem.comWe already have an IT partner. What would you add?
Our processes are too specific for standard software.
What if the investigation finds nothing worth pursuing?
Who runs the conversation, and who builds afterwards?
What happens to the information from the conversation?
Why charge for the investigation but not the conversation?
How much time does this require from our company?
What if we want to continue building ourselves afterwards?
You speak with the people who will investigate and build it.
No account manager, no handover after a signature and no generic presentation. During the free conversation we listen to one process. Only if we see enough potential do we propose a paid Diagnosis with a fixed scope and price.
- First conversation
- 45 minutes, free
- With whom
- The makers themselves
- Paid step
- Only after your approval
No presentation, no demo and no sales pitch.