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Free 30-minute audit call

Find out what to build first.

Show me your current setup — the spreadsheets, the aging app, the manual workflow that's eating your week. I'll tell you what I'd build first, what it would cost, and whether it's worth doing at all. You keep the one-page plan whether or not we work together.

Schedule My Audit Call What you'll get

No sales pitch — owner-operated, you talk to the developer. • 30 minutes. One page. Yours to keep.

What the audit covers
  • Where time is leaking in your current workflow
  • What to build first for the biggest payoff
  • Honest ballpark of cost and timeline
  • Where AI would genuinely help, and where it would just add cost
  • Whether custom software even makes sense yet
  • One-page plan you can act on with or without us

What you'll walk away with

Thirty minutes, four answers, one page.

What to build first

The single workflow or screen where custom software pays back fastest. Not a wish list — the one thing worth doing first.

Honest cost and timeline

A real range — $250 to $500 a month plus a build window measured in weeks, not quarters. No "it depends" runarounds.

Where AI fits, and where it doesn't

Which parts of your work AI would genuinely carry, which parts it would quietly get wrong, and what it costs to run. Picking those apart is what I do professionally.

Whether you should bother

If spreadsheets and existing tools are already doing the job, I'll say so. The goal is the right call for your business, not a sale.

Who this is for

Small businesses where someone is doing too much by hand.

Spreadsheets are running the business

Inventory, orders, customers, or scheduling lives in a workbook that only one person fully understands. The mistakes are getting expensive.

An aging app nobody can maintain

Access database from 2008. Custom app from 2014. WordPress site held together with abandoned plugins. The developer who built it isn't around.

A repetitive workflow eating real time

Re-keying the same data between systems. Copy-pasting into emails. A task that should be ten seconds takes ten minutes — and you do it twenty times a day.

SaaS pricing climbing past what it's worth

Per-seat fees scaling faster than the value. A custom-built version on a flat monthly might cost less and fit better. Or it might not — that's what the audit is for.

You pay for AI and it can't see your business

Copilot or ChatGPT is on the invoice, and it still can't tell you what you quoted a customer last spring. The answer lives in your files and your systems, not in the chat window.

You want answers out of your own documents

Contracts, past quotes, SOPs, the employee handbook. You want to ask a plain question and get a real answer with the source attached, not a confident guess.

Common questions

What people ask before they book.

Yes. Thirty minutes on the phone or a video call, no charge and no obligation. You walk away with a one-page plan whether or not we end up working together. The reason it works for me is simple: the conversations that go well usually become long-term clients, and the ones that don't still leave the business owner with something useful.

Me. Mike Kerchenski — the developer who builds and supports every Hurrah.dev project. No sales rep, no account manager, no junior "discovery" call. If we end up working together, the person on the audit call is the person who'll write your code and pick up the phone when something breaks.

Whatever exists. Screenshots of the spreadsheet or app, a rough description of the workflow, a sense of how many people use it and how often. You don't need a spec or a budget — if you had those, you wouldn't need the audit. Even a 5-minute screen share of how a task gets done today is plenty.

I'll tell you. The audit isn't a sales call disguised as a free consultation. If your problem is better solved by an off-the-shelf tool, a part-time admin hire, or a different specialist, the one-page plan will say so. Honest mismatch beats wasted months on both sides.

Those tools read. They don't do. Copilot will find last spring's quote and help you write an email about it. It won't price the new one against your rules, post it into your system, or run overnight while nobody's driving. That doing part is the workflow layer, and it's what gets built into the app you already have. On the call I'll tell you which side of that line your problem actually falls on, including the times the honest answer is that the subscription you already pay for covers it.

It's my day job. Selecting which AI use cases are worth building, and which ones aren't, is work I do professionally on enterprise systems, and have for years. On the Hurrah side it's been in production for two years: one client's state compliance documents go from a 20-page PDF to a reviewed, published web page in about 30 seconds, replacing 2 to 4 hours of manual work per state. Mostly that experience makes me conservative. A lot of AI ideas I hear are worse than the boring automation sitting right next to them, and the one-page plan will say which one you've got.

$250 to $500 a month for hosting, support, and ongoing development on a custom app. Initial build work is scoped and quoted separately if it's larger than what fits into the subscription. Most clients in the $500K to $5M revenue range land in the middle of that range.

Weeks, not months. The audit itself fits inside a normal business week. From there, the typical first-build window is 4 to 8 weeks before something is in your hands. Working from a framework I've already built and maintain is what collapses that timeline; I'll be specific about your situation on the call.

Schedule your free audit call

Tell me a little about your business and where the pain is. I'll reply within 24 hours with a few times that work.

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