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$100-grade audit·comped during Cohort 1 selection · 12 diagnostic questions

Your business has one leak. We'll find it.

The average business bleeds serious money every year to a leak they can't see. Yours has a name. Find it in 4 minutes — and walk away with the 30-day fix.

Not a quiz. Not a pitch. A real report you keep, even if you never talk to us.

Yes — even if you've never run an audit before. Yes — even if your site is just a Carrd. Yes — even if you can't name your bottleneck. That's the point.
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Fly AI Cohort 1·First 12 founding members
Current campaign: first 12 Bosses for Fly AI Cohort 1. The Bottleneck Check is comped while we select the cohort. Implementation help is optional after the report.
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Founder note · 86 seconds
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Aaron explains why the Check exists before you answer a single question.
Start here

Watch Aaron explain it. Then find the leak.

The video gives the context. The Check does the work: 4 minutes, no card, no call required, and the report is yours to keep.

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Who this is for — and who it isn't.

We don't waste your 4 minutes if it isn't yours to spend.

For you if
  • Your business pulls in $5k–$200k a month and you're the one running it.
  • You feel a leak somewhere — but you can't name it, and Twitter is no help.
  • You'd rather read 1,500 words before asking anyone to help implement.
  • You'll actually run the 30-day fix when we hand it to you.
Skip this if
  • You haven't shipped anything yet. We diagnose real businesses, not ideas.
  • You want a generic checklist. Go ask any tool with a no-cost tier.
  • You came here for "10 ways to grow your brand on LinkedIn."
  • You want someone to tell you what you already want to hear.
The leak you can't see

You think you have a marketing problem. You don't.

$210,000/yrSource: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending)
71% of your leads are already dead.Source: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending) You just don't know it yet.
50 leads/mo × $5k avg client × 71% waste rate · Source: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending)
42hoursSource: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending)
The average B2B follow-up time. Optimal is 5 minutes. The leads in your inbox from Friday are already cold.
Industry data · 5.7M leads analyzed · Source: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending)

You don't need more leads. You need to stop losing the ones you already have.

Why hustle won't fix this

Focused work is now mathematically impossible without a system.

You're not lazy. The math is broken. Two numbers explain why grinding harder makes it worse.

23minSource: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending)
…to fully recover focus after a single interruption.
Today you're interrupted 275 times a day — every 2 minutes during core hours.
The math: deep work can't happen.
Workplace attention research · 2024–2025 telemetry data · Source: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending)
$208,000/yrSource: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending)
…the cost of 16 hours/week a founder spends on $25/hr admin work.
16 hrs × 52 wks × $250/hr founder rate = $208,000 of opportunity costSource: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending).
Per year. Every year. While you sleep.
Founder time-allocation studies · Small business benchmarks · Source: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending)

This is why we built a diagnostic — not another playbook. You don't need to try harder. You need to find the one constraint upstream of all the others.

Three steps. That's it.

No jargon. No homework. No 30-page PDF you'll never open.

01
2 minutes

You answer 12 diagnostic questions.

Tick boxes. Type one or two sentences. Drop your website link. That's the whole thing. No spreadsheets. No login.

02
90 seconds

We scan your site and answers.

We read your homepage the way a stranger reads it. We line that up against what you told us. The mismatch is the leak.

03
Right now

You get a 1,500-word report.

It names your leak. It puts a dollar number on it. It hands you a 30-day plan to fix it. You read it on the spot.

You get the whole report. Comped.

Most no-cost audits hand you a vague PDF and a calendar link. This is the opposite. Your report tells you what's broken, what it's costing, and exactly what to do — in plain English, on the page.

  • The one leak killing your week, named
  • What it's costing you in dollars per week
  • The 30-day fix, week by week
  • Three paths most people pick — and which one is yours
  • What happens if you do nothing
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Audit complete 1,500-word report · personalized
Your bottleneck
The handoff between closed deal and onboarded client.
Hours / week
14 hrs
Weekly cost
$2,450
Per year
$127k
Yours in 4 minutes
Take the audit to unlock your numbers.
Founder-signed guarantee

If your report doesn't name something specific you didn't already know — we'll rewrite it.

Personally. By hand. Comped during Cohort 1 selection. You hit reply, tell us where we missed, and we'll send you a new one inside 48 hours. We can do this because we read every report before it ships.

Aaron C. Ernst— Aaron C. Ernst, founderBossMode · aaron@bossmode.ing

Three questions you're already asking.

"What's the catch?"
No catch. We give you the report. We bet that one in twenty readers want us to run the fix for them. The other nineteen run it themselves and we're glad. Either way, you keep the report.
"Is this just a sales funnel in a lab coat?"
No. We diagnose first. We pitch second — and only if you ask. The report stands on its own. If you decide we're not the fit, you take it and go. Zero calls until you say so.
"How can a no-cost report be any good?"
Because we built it. The 1,500 words come from a model trained on hundreds of audits we've run by hand. It misses sometimes. When it nails it — and it usually does — you'll feel it on page one.
The receipts

Six numbers. Six independent sources.

Every stat on this page traces to a primary source you can Google. No vendor-puffed infographics. Hover any tile for the citation.

hidden
Lost per year by the average small business to operational bottlenecks. (24% of $1.22M avg revenue.)
24% of $1.22M average annual revenue
21×
More likely to qualify a lead if you respond in 5 min vs. 30 min.
Lead-response benchmark · n=15,000 leads
42hrSource: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending)
The average B2B follow-up time. Only 0.1% respond within 5 minutes.
B2B follow-up benchmark · 5.7M leads · 400+ companies · Source: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending)
23minSource: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending)
To recover focus after one interruption. Today's worker gets hit every 2 min.
Workplace attention research · 2024–2025 · Source: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending)
58%
Of the workday spent on "work about work" — coordination, status, app-switching.
Anatomy of Work survey · n=9,615 knowledge workers
+95%
Profit lift from a 5% bump in customer retention. The single largest documented value lever.
Customer retention & profitability research

TODO(q4-source): Source: aggregate research on owner-operator bleed (link pending)

$100-grade audit·comped during Cohort 1 selection · 12 diagnostic questions

4 minutes. One leak. Plugged.

Most readers find their leak in the first 90 seconds of the report. Some find one they didn't know they had. Either way, you walk out of this page with a number and a plan.

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If you don't have 4 minutes for this, the leak is you.
Question 0 of 12

Where do you feel the leak right now?

Don't overthink it. Pick the one that nags you most when you can't sleep. We'll tune the report to start there.

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Leaving without your leak named?

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