Approval Workflow Audit

What is your approval bottleneck actually costing you?

Pick your agency size and we’ll pre-fill conservative numbers you can dial to match reality. See what the status quo ties up — the reviewer-time and a friction scorecard — live on screen, no email needed. Your precise dollar range is in the report.

Free, on screen — no email needed to see your number.

01Your size & volume

Agency size

Pick your size and we’ll pre-fill conservative starting numbers you can dial to match reality.

Content pieces per month

Across every client you produce for.

Approval stages per piece

How many hand-offs each piece passes through before it ships.

Days per approval cycledays

From “ready for review” to “approved.”

02The coordination load

This is the coordination time the status quo already costs you. It starts at a conservative anchor — raise it if it’s worse.

Hours per week chasing sign-offshrs

Account-manager time spent moving approvals along. Anchored low — raise it if it’s worse.

03What rings true

Check the ones that ring true. No judgment — these tune your scorecard.

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Someone spends real time each week chasing approvals over email and Slack
The wrong version of something has gone out — or nearly did
You field “where’s my content?” questions you can’t answer at a glance
Status lives in a spreadsheet that’s out of date the moment you save it
Approvals routinely slip past the deadline you promised the client
A new hire takes months to learn how approvals actually flow here

On screen (free)

Headcount reframe
Scorecard band + gauge
Where the cycle time goes

In the full report

Your precise annual cost range
Your benchmark rank vs top performers
What to fix first
Per-stage cost table
12-month cost trajectory
An AI-written consultative read
A forwardable PDF

Your 3 days cycle is within 1 day of the fastest teams your size (~2 days). Your report pinpoints where it stalls first: Most of your coordination cost is the per-hand-off time across your 2 approval stages — the first lever is collapsing or parallelizing hand-offs, not speeding up reviewers..

A preview of your co-branded PDF — your benchmark rank, what to fix first, and the per-stage breakdown.

Your audit result

≈ 1 month of a senior reviewer's year

of coordination you’re already paying for chasing sign-offs — without the output.

You’re in decent shape

0 of 6 chaos signals present

Where the cycle time goes

3-day cycle

96%

Hands-on workIdle wait between hand-offs

Most of your cycle is idle wait between hand-offs, not work — time no one is touching the piece.

Your full report ranks you against top performers, breaks down exactly where it stalls — and what your numbers say to fix first. Your precise annual dollar range is in the report.