A lemonade stand is a business one person can run.

How much of your business could run 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.

It is free. There is nothing for sale on this site.

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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.

Know what the busy work costs.

There are jobs in your week that only get done because you do them. Chasing a quote. Re-typing an invoice. Answering the same question for the tenth time.

The assessment adds those up from your own answers and puts a yearly cost on them, in hours and in dollars. It rounds down at every step, so the real cost is at least the number you see.

From there the report shows you where those hours are going and what would get them back.

Twenty-one questions. Then a written answer.

The assessment asks how work reaches you, what happens between an enquiry and getting paid, and what tools you run on. Five minutes later you have a report with three things in it.

  • What is working, and the one thing holding it back

    It starts with what the business has built, then names the single constraint, rather than listing everything that could be better.

  • Three to eight specific opportunities

    Each one says what would change, roughly what it takes, what it gives back per year, and whether you can do it yourself.

  • An order to do them in

    Now, next, later. The fix that frees up time comes before the fix that needs time.

There are only so many hours in a day.

The report sorts every fix by what it is worth to you and what it would take, so you know where your attention should go first.

Too early

The manual work is not costing you much yet. The report tells you which one or two habits to set up now, while things are small, so they still hold when work picks up.

You can do this yourself

A fix gets this label when a tool you already own, or a free one, can handle it. The report tells you which to do first and which can wait, so your time goes to the ones that pay.

This needs a build

Some fixes need software written or systems joined up. That is not an evening job, so the report places each one in your now, next or later order and tells you which is worth planning for first.

Player Piano AI

Who runs this

Hello. We are Player Piano AI, a small automation studio in Toronto. We built Lemonade Stand because the first question every owner asks us is the same one: is any of this worth automating?

The assessment answers that for free, in writing, and most of the time the answer is that you can handle it yourself. When the report finds work that needs a proper build, it says so, and it offers a conversation with us. Either way, the report is yours to keep.

Find out where the week goes.

Five minutes. No account, no card. Your email is the last thing asked.