You've paid 27 days in system tax

One of my clients said something on a call that I thought was pretty funny but also quite relatable.

"I've wasted 10 minutes, 4,000 times, looking for the same document. That's 27 full days, gone."

And it’s not like he's not disorganized. He's made millions between his different business ventures.

But his systems? Non-existent.

"Our company brains are in our brains," he told me.

So every time an employee left, everything they knew walked out the door with them. Seven years of content with no way to find a single video. 500+ contact scattered across spreadsheets no one could navigate.

This is the hidden tax of running a business without systems.

It's not one catastrophic failure, it's death by a thousand cuts.

10min here, 20min there, the same question asked for the 100th time and the same file searched for again and again.

And here's what makes it worse: you get used to it.

The chaos becomes normal. The inefficiency becomes "just how things are." You stop noticing the tax because you've been paying it so long.

But that tax compounds.

Every hour lost to searching is an hour not spent on growth. Every process trapped in someone's head is a ticking time bomb waiting for their resignation. Every manual task repeated is proof that your business runs on people, not systems.

And businesses that run on people don't scale.
They just cause the founders to burn out.

The math is simple:

• People-based Business: Growth = more work for you

• System-based Business: Growth = same work, more output

After we built his system, that same client now has a centralized company brain with all of his content, contacts and SOPs stored in the same place. No more searching for files across multiple spreadsheets or tools and no more paying multiple software subscriptions every month.

One system, one dashboard, one place to go to for visibility across the whole business.

If you want to see what these systems actually look like and the type of clients we’ve helped, I put together a portfolio with some of the businesses we helped through systems.

No fluff. Just systems.
Chris "The Systemizer" Punt

P.S. How much time & energy are you losing every day as a consequence of not having the right systems in place? And how much is this per year if you translate it to your hourly rate?