Order of work
What to do first.
Most money is lost to sequence, not to choice — ads bought before anyone can find the shop, software built on a process nobody wrote down. Answer five questions and get the order, what each step costs, and the things worth leaving alone for now.
Work out the order
0 of 5 answered. The order changes with every one of them, so all five matter.
How to use it
Getting a useful result.
- Answer about the business as it is today, not as you hope it will be next year. The order it gives back is only as honest as the frequency and budget you put in.
- Pick the one thing that costs you most. Businesses usually have several problems at once, and the whole value of an order is deciding which one goes first.
- Read the Not yet list as carefully as the steps. It is the half that saves money, and it is the half most quotes leave out.
- Run it again with a different budget to see what changes. What should happen first rarely changes; what is reachable this quarter does.
Nothing here is a quote. It reads the starting prices published on our pricing page and nothing else — no guess at your scope, no assumed result, no industry average.
Several answers end with do not buy anything yet, including from us. A task that happens a few times a month does not repay software, and saying so costs us the project — which is the point of publishing this rather than saving it for a sales call.
It is opinionated on purpose. Claim the free Google Business Profile before paying for ads; fix the page before buying traffic to it; write the process down before anyone builds on it. Each of those is checkable, and each is a mistake we have watched businesses pay for.
If your case does not fit any of the six, that is worth telling us. Send us the situation in three lines and you will get the same answer you would get here, from a person, whether or not you hire us.
Common questions
Is this going to tell me to hire you?
Sometimes, and sometimes the opposite. Four of the routes through it end in work you do yourself for nothing — claiming a Business Profile, writing down a process, counting how often a task actually happens before deciding to automate it. A tool that always concluded 'hire Solvey' would be an advert with a quiz on the front, and you would be able to tell.
Why does it ask about my budget?
Because the honest answer changes with it. Custom software starts at ₹75,000 and most projects land well above that, so if the budget does not reach the floor, the useful reply is what does reach it and what to do until then — not a quote you would spend a month discovering you cannot afford. The frequency question is asked first, deliberately, so the advice cannot read as a response to your money.
Why does the order matter more than the choice?
Because the individual decisions are rarely wrong and the sequence usually is. Ads pointed at a page nobody converts on, a dashboard built over spreadsheets three people edit, a system built around a process that was never written down — each of those is a reasonable purchase made one step too early, and the money does not come back.
Can you just tell me what my business needs?
Not from five taps, and anyone who says otherwise is guessing. What this gives you is the shape of the answer and the order, which is enough to judge any quote you are holding, including ours. The specifics come from a call about how the work actually happens — which is the first step of how we run every project.
The order this gives you is the first step of how every project here runs — the problem before the build, the options before the price — what we do.