FREE WORKBOOK
Death by a Thousand Systems
A free workbook that puts a number on what fragmented systems are costing your school, department by department. No login. No sales call. Just the truth about your own stack, in your own words.
- One place, not a dozen heads — puts what's not working in one place, department by department, instead of scattered across a dozen people's heads.
- The true cost, visible — surfaces the time and money each problem is actually costing, often visible together for the first time.
- Where you agree, and don't — shows where your team already agrees, and where it doesn't, before anyone's in a room arguing about it.
- Judged on your terms — compares every option, including doing nothing, against criteria your own team agreed on, not a vendor's feature list.
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What happens next
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Download it now
The workbook opens in any browser. Nothing to install, no account to create, and it works offline.
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Work through it department by department
Each section asks what isn't working, what it costs in time and money, and who agrees. An hour with the right people is usually enough.
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Send it back if you'd like a read-out
Email us the completed workbook and we'll send a written read-out of what it shows. No obligation, no pitch.
Ten systems is ninety connections
Fragmentation costs are rarely on anyone's budget line, which is exactly why they keep growing. The workbook makes them countable.
The arithmetic nobody runs
Every system you add has to talk to the ones you already have. Ten systems means up to ninety one-way connections between them — each a place data drifts, a rekeying job somebody quietly absorbed, or a report that only one person knows how to produce.
The costs that never appear on a budget
Licence fees are the easy part to see. The expensive part is the enabling work around them: the exports, the reconciliations, the chasing, the duplicate registers, the "just send it to me and I'll type it in". The workbook prices that work at your own staff cost, department by department.
Judged on your terms, including doing nothing
The last section compares your options — keep everything, consolidate some of it, consolidate all of it — against criteria your own team wrote down before anyone saw a demo. Doing nothing is scored too, because sometimes it wins, and it should have to win on the numbers.
Opens in any browser, no login. It tracks its own progress as you fill it in.