Every recurring activity with cost, capacity, demand source and obligation state.
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Eight weeks, one bounded function, one question asked of every activity: would you build it again? The work, documents and flows that fail that question come out with the evidence attached, the first step to an AI-native operation. ZeroBase is in design-partner validation, and every figure on this site comes from a synthetic scenario; saying so is the point of a design partnership.
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Fit.
This is a qualification, not a contact form. The fit matters more to us than the volume, and if it is wrong we would rather establish that in the first conversation.
Good fityes
- 500+ employees, with a function that has a clear owner
- Recurring operational work, not one-off projects
- Event metadata accessible from 6 to 12 source systems
- A named executive sponsor for the function
- Willing to test reversible changes before committing
Not a fitno
- A headcount reduction exercise
- Data that cannot be made accessible in the window
- No single owner for the function in scope
- Wanting autonomous execution without human gates
- A benchmark-only exercise with no decision at the end
The engagement, specified.
Bounded on purpose: one function, one evidence boundary, one delta with an owner against every line.
- Best for
- CFO · COO · Transformation lead · Shared Services leader
- Best starting functions
- Finance · Procurement · Shared Services
- Typical scope
- 1 function · 6 to 12 source systems · a named executive sponsor
- Duration
- 8 weeks from baseline lock to recorded decisions
- Your time
- About 90 minutes a week from the function owner and sponsor
- Measured in
- Capacity hours and annual cost, never headcount
What we read.
Metadata only. No document content, and no measurement below the activity level.
- ERP / finance
- Transaction and posting events, plus the cost baseline for the function
- Workflow
- Process steps, approvals, rework loops and exception paths
- Ticketing
- Request types, routing and service levels
- Documents
- Creation, distribution and access metadata, never the documents themselves
- Calendar
- Recurring meeting cadence and attendance volume
- Policy register
- Whatever states an obligation, so it can be verified instead of asserted
What remains after week eight.
Every review leaves a system behind, not a deck. This is the whole commercial difference.
Remove · redesign · automate · keep, with the reasoning attached to each.
Source-linked findings, each traceable back to the system it came from.
Every claim asserted but not evidenced, kept visible rather than folded into a score.
Current to target, with owner, reversibility class, experiment and review date.
Who decided, on what evidence, under which conditions, and when it is revisited.
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Product and early design-partner work are handled directly by the founder, not through a sales layer. One email is enough to start.
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