Your tools are stuck in the 90s. Your consulting is not.

I started in maintenance at a chemical plant and spent 18 years in EHS, process safety, and pipeline safety. The consulting got sharper the whole time. The tools around it barely moved.

What does stuck in the 90s look like?

It looks like a program that lives in a matrix, a Word file, and an email thread. A policy changes, a record is added, and the score stays where somebody typed it.

It looks like a process safety audit rebuilt from the last workbook. Someone copies the last file, strips the old client's name, and hopes nothing from the last site survives into this one. The notes come home in a notebook and a phone full of photos, and the report gets written after the auditor is already on the next job.

It looks like four agency sites, PHMSA, EPA, OSHA, and FERC, checked by hand when someone has time.

Why does it matter if the work still gets done?

The client paid for the audit and the judgment. The client did not pay for the firm to rebuild its own workbook, and the firm cannot bill for it. On fixed-fee work, that admin comes straight out of the margin.

It also caps growth. When every client starts from scratch, the number of clients you can carry stays flat.

Does modernizing mean buying another platform?

No. Most firms already run Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. The tool can live there, with your permissions, your files, and your data. Your firm owns the build, and we document it so your team can run it.

Where do you start?

Pick the one recurring task that eats the most of your week. A permit and deadline register that alerts your team. Audit notes that become the report without retyping. Every client's 1173 program in one place. Start there, and count the hours you get back.

That is what the Automation Sprint is for: one workflow, built in 3 to 4 weeks, from $5,000 per workflow, fixed price, quoted up front.