Return, with the method

Numbers from inside the companies we run. Dated. With the method. Including the ones that did not move.

These are our own companies' numbers, not a client's. Each says how it was counted and when. The screens they come from are on the systems in production page, and on a call we open the live ones.

Counted, not claimedScrollSalt Lake City · Mountain time
Snapshot: September 2026
74%cut in AI model cost, operations platform
Counted by
Monthly provider invoices before and after routing each task to the cheapest model that passes its test. August 2026 against May 2026.
Caveat
Volume grew in the same period, so the per-task figure is the honest one; the total bill fell less.
$0.05to recover a masked lead contact
Counted by
Enrichment provider charges divided by contacts recovered, cleaning company, August to September 2026. Seven sources tried in order, cheapest first.
Caveat
Recovery rate is not 100%. Roughly one in six stays masked and goes to a human.
137applications scored and moved in one pass
Counted by
Hiring queue before and after the funnel went live, cleaning company, September 2026. Every application scored, invited or declined with a reason.
Caveat
Scoring is EEOC-guarded and a manager reviews every invite. The system moves the queue; it does not hire.
5 minfrom a 9:42pm lead to a priced reply
Counted by
Timestamps on the lead record and the outbound text, cleaning company, the after-hours lead shown on the home page, which is a real one. Median across after-hours leads that month was under ten minutes.
Caveat
Median, not guarantee. Leads that need a human decision wait for the human.
14episodes scheduled in one sitting, publishing without a person
Counted by
Media brand, September to December 2026 calendar. Episodes sync from the host, products live in the store, clips cut from the long episode.
Caveat
This counts a schedule, not outcomes. At the snapshot one episode has gone out on its date; the rest are a plan until each date passes.
2dead payment jobs found by the nightly reconciler in its first week
Counted by
Reconciler log, cleaning company, September 2026. Two scheduled payment tasks had silently stopped; one unmatched charge was reconciled the first night it ran.
Caveat
Finding them is the system. A person still fixed the code underneath.
What did not move

Three numbers we tried to move and could not, yet.

Social reach

Ninety days of scheduled posting on a service company did not change booked jobs in a way we could attribute. We stopped and put the effort into search and referrals, which did.

Cold email

Own-inbox cold outreach stalled on provider gating and deliverability. Domains are warm and waiting; the number is still zero.

Automatic price changes

We built pricing intelligence that could re-price jobs on its own. It has never been switched on. A human approves every change, so that number did not move, by choice.

We publish these because a return page with only wins is an advertisement. Yours will have a column like this too, and we will tell you before we start what we think will land in it.

How yours gets counted

The teardown sets the baseline. Day ninety measures against it.

Before any install we write down the numbers the system is meant to move and how each will be counted. That is the spec the guarantee refers to. At the ninety-day review you get the same table as this page, for your company, with the same caveat column. Read one install, start to finish to see the shape of it, or run the calculator for a first estimate.

Your numbers,
counted the same way.

Ninety minutes on a recorded call inside your tools: what to automate, what to replace, what it is costing you. Free, specific, and the recording is yours.

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