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Twenty minutes on the task that eats your week.

For owners and managing directors of 5 to 200 people who have no IT department and no plan to hire one. You bring one repetitive task. You leave with a written verdict on what it costs you in hours and whether it is worth fixing.

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    You name the task that eats the most time. Quotes, invoices, customer inquiries, hiring, documentation, whichever one it is in your week.

  2. 02

    We count it out loud: how often it happens, how long it takes, who does it, how many hours a month that adds up to.

  3. 03

    I tell you whether it can be fixed, roughly how, and what the first step would be. Or that it is not worth fixing, which is also an answer.

You leave with a written verdict by email: the task, the hours it costs you per month, and whether fixing it pays for itself. Nothing to sign.

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What will not happen on the call: no slides, no product recommendation you did not ask for, no follow-up sequence. If nothing on your list is worth fixing, I say so and we stop there.

I take two projects a month. One person, that is the real limit.

The same discipline runs this registry: 15,894 tools and 430 agents under scheduled machine checks, and 446 in the graveyard after three consecutive failed checks each. The 3-miss rule decides that, never an editor. The methodology is public.

I am Merryl DMello: eighteen years building systems inside Intel, HP, Rackspace, Phoenix Contact and BioNTech, where a reporting dashboard for 35+ stakeholders saved each of them 10 hours a month, and my own practice since July 2026.

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