A lemonade stand is a business you can see all of at once.
How much of it runs without you?
Most small businesses have one person holding the whole thing together, and that person is usually the owner. This works out what that costs you in hours and in dollars, which parts you can fix yourself, and the order to do them in.
Free, and complete. There is nothing to buy on this website.
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What is one job costing you a year?
A sentence and five taps. The sum is done in your browser and shown to you, and nothing is sent anywhere.
Pick a job, how often it happens, and how long it takes. The number appears here.
before you believe any of it
That is arithmetic, not an opinion.
A number about your own business is worth nothing if you cannot check it. So the sum is shown, the assumptions are stated, and every input is one you gave.
The numbers are yours
Every figure is arithmetic on counts and durations you supplied. The sum is printed line by line so you can check it. Change an input and the total moves.
It under-claims on purpose
A working year is 48 weeks here, not 52. Both ends of every dollar range round down. We would rather be quietly low than caught high.
Nothing is compared to anyone else
No score, no grade, no percentile, no industry average. We hold no data on other businesses, so we do not pretend to. It measures one thing: how much of this runs without you.
Five minutes, and the email comes last
No account to start and no card at any point. The email is asked on the final screen as a delivery question, not as a toll booth at the door.
Twenty-one questions in. A straight answer out.
The strip above covers one job. The assessment asks about how work actually reaches you, what happens between an enquiry and getting paid, and what you already run on.
What you have built, and the one thing holding it
It opens with what is working, because a business that has lasted has built something real. Then it names the actual constraint rather than a list of everything imperfect.
Between three and eight specific opportunities
Each one says what changes, roughly what it takes to do, what it gives back per year, and plainly whether you can do it yourself.
An order to do them in
Now, next, later. Sequenced so the thing that buys you time comes before the thing that needs time you do not have yet.
the part nobody expects
Most of what it finds, you can do yourself.
And it says so item by item, in writing, with the ones you can handle marked as such. A firm that tells you not to hire it is the only honest proof that the diagnosis was not written to sell you something.
You are earlier than this
Some businesses do not have the volume yet for any of it to pay off. It says so, tells you what to do meanwhile, and names the thing to come back on.
You can get this back yourself
There is real time going missing and the fixes are settings and habits rather than software. It walks through them. No call offered.
This one is a build
The cost is material and at least one fix is genuinely a build. Only here does the option of a conversation come up, and only when there is room for one.
a real one
The first worked example is not up yet.
It will be ACE Home, a Toronto home services company owned by the same person who built this, run through the assessment properly and published whole. The dollar figure included, whatever it says.
Until that exists, there is no example here. An invented one would be worth less than an empty space.
who is behind it
Player Piano AI, in Toronto.
Player Piano AI builds automation for small businesses. Lemonade Stand is how it works out whether a business needs any, which is a question worth answering before anybody is asked to pay for something.
It is one person, and there are no case studies to show you yet. So there are none on this page. A conversation is offered rarely, only when the work is genuinely a build rather than a setting, and only when there is room in the week for it. The rest of the time the assessment is the whole product, and you take it and go.
Find out where the week goes.
Five minutes. No account to start, no card at any point, and the email is the last thing asked rather than the first.
An Ayres Capital Enterprises venture. Built in Toronto.