Find out exactly what's holding your business back — in a single day
An independent, experienced assessment of your operations, systems, and commercial function. You leave with a clear picture of your highest-impact constraints — and a prioritised roadmap to address them.
You know something’s wrong. You’re just not sure what.
Growth has stalled, or it’s happening but the business feels like it’s straining to keep up. You’re working harder than ever and the results don’t reflect the effort. You’ve tried fixing things — new hires, new processes, new systems — but the underlying friction doesn’t go away.
The problem with most advisory work is that it takes months before you understand what you’re actually dealing with. You’re asked to commit to a long engagement before anyone has properly looked under the hood.
The 1-Day Operational Diagnostic is built for exactly this moment. One focused day. A clear answer. No long-term commitment required.
A structured day — built around your business
Before the day, you’ll receive a short briefing questionnaire. Your answers shape where we focus — so the day is built around your specific situation, not a generic checklist.
I work through your operations, systems, team structure, and commercial function. I talk to the people doing the work — not just the leadership layer — to get an accurate picture of where friction actually lives.
At the end of the day, I walk you through what I’ve found — clearly, directly, without jargon. You understand what your constraints are and what they’re costing you.
Within a few days you receive a written summary of findings and a prioritised roadmap — what to fix first, why, and what the impact will be.
Clarity you can act on immediately
Constraint identification
A clear picture of your highest-impact operational bottlenecks — not a list of everything that could be better, but the things that are actually limiting your growth or profitability.
Cost of inaction
Where it’s possible to quantify it, I’ll show you what each constraint is costing your business — in revenue, margin, time, or risk.
Prioritised roadmap
A plain-English written roadmap with a clear order of priority — what to fix first, what to defer, and what to stop doing.
An independent view
Delivered by someone with 30+ years of operational experience across Australia, the UK, Europe, and Scandinavia — who has no interest in telling you what you want to hear.
$2,000 – $2,500
Fixed investment. No hidden scope.
The full investment is applicable as a credit toward a full fractional engagement if you choose to proceed. For most owners, this is the most valuable day they invest in their business all year.
The right fit matters — on both sides
The Diagnostic is designed for owners and directors of B2B manufacturing and supply businesses turning over $2M–$40M, based in or operating across Brisbane and Sydney.
It’s most valuable if you’re at one of three inflection points:
Growth & scale
Revenue is growing but the business is straining. You’re hiring, but it’s not solving the underlying problem. You need to know where the real ceiling is.
Pre-exit preparation
You’re 12–24 months from a potential sale and want to understand the operational gaps that will erode your valuation before a buyer finds them.
Strategic expansion
You’re moving into a new market, product line, or channel and want an honest assessment of whether your current operations can support it.
30+ years operational experience. No junior consultants.
Drew Robins is the Director of FBS Consulting and the person who shows up on the day — not a project manager who briefs someone else. He has spent three decades working inside businesses across Australia, the UK, Europe, and Scandinavia, leading operational transformations, building sales infrastructure, and helping manufacturers and B2B companies move through the inflection points that define whether they grow or plateau.
30+
Years operational experience
$300K+
$3.4M
This is embedded operational work, not boardroom advice. Drew works inside businesses — alongside the people doing the work — and leaves organisations with systems and capability that outlast the engagement.
You might be wondering
For most businesses at this scale, the highest-impact constraints are identifiable within a well-structured day. The goal isn’t to know everything about your business — it’s to find the two or three things that are limiting you most and give you a clear path forward.
Chaos is usually a symptom, not a reason to wait. The Diagnostic is designed to work in messy environments — in fact, that’s often where it’s most valuable. If you’re in the middle of a difficult period, that’s a good reason to do this sooner, not later.
The Diagnostic is done by someone who has spent 30+ years implementing operational change inside businesses — not analysing them from the outside. The output is a prioritised action plan, not a lengthy document that sits in a drawer. And if you choose to proceed to a full engagement, everything from the Diagnostic is already built into the foundation.
There’s no obligation to proceed beyond the Diagnostic. Some owners take the roadmap and implement it with their own team. Others use it as the starting point for a fractional COO or CRO engagement. If you do choose to proceed, the full Diagnostic investment applies as a credit toward the engagement.
Ready to find out?
Book your complimentary 30-minute conversation
We’ll talk through your situation, confirm the Diagnostic is the right starting point, and get a day in the diary.