FREE ASSESSMENT

Most business owners have no idea what their technology is actually costing them.

Not what they're paying for it. What it's costing them.

The Founder's IT Reality Check is a 15-question assessment that tells you exactly where your technology is working against your business, and what to do about it.

If you own or run a manufacturing, distribution, industrial, or trades business between $10M and $75M, this was built for you.

Takes 7 minutes. Results delivered immediately. Free, no obligation, no vendor agenda.

Here's what I've learned after 25 years in technology leadership, including 8 years as CIO of a $400M manufacturer: the founders who are in the most trouble are rarely the ones who made obviously bad decisions.

They're the ones who didn't know the right questions to ask. So they trusted the wrong people. Approved the wrong vendor. Kept the wrong system running three years past its expiration date. And by the time the damage showed up, it was expensive.

That's not a failure of judgment. It's a failure of information.

The IT Reality Check fixes that. In about 7 minutes, you'll know:

Whether your business could survive losing your IT person tomorrow (and what it typically costs companies who find out the hard way)
Where your technology foundation is solid and where it's holding on by luck, creating risk you can't see yet
Which vendor relationships and contracts are working in your favor and which ones aren't
Whether your operations are genuinely ready for the technology decisions coming at you in the next 18 months

No jargon. No sales pitch. No 40-page report you'll never read.

Just an honest read from someone who has seen what happens when these questions don't get asked until it's too late.

Takes 7 minutes. Results delivered immediately. Free, no obligation, no vendor agenda.

WHO IS BEHIND THIS

I'm not an analyst or a career consultant.

A manufacturer I was working with was close to signing a contract for an AI solution. The vendor was credible. The pitch was polished. The owner was ready to sign.

I asked three questions about their data quality and process consistency.

The answers made the decision obvious.

AI wasn't the right tool. Not because anything was wrong with the vendor, but because you cannot layer intelligence on top of broken process and expect it to work. What they actually needed was automation. Straightforward, no machine learning required.

We implemented an RPA solution instead. $6K. Operational ahead of schedule. Under budget. Owned and managed internally from day one, no ongoing vendor dependency, no licensing treadmill. The AI path would have cost significantly more, required outside support indefinitely, and produced inconsistent output from the start because the underlying data was never clean enough to feed it.

That's not a story about a bad vendor. It's a story about asking the right questions before the wrong decision gets made.

I've also helped businesses move forward when the conditions were right. And I've told plenty of them they weren't ready yet.

This assessment is built on both.

Before 25 years in technology leadership, including 8 years as CIO of a $400M manufacturer, I worked demolition, ran production operations, and built things with my hands. I came to technology the same way most of you built your businesses: by figuring it out.

The questions in this assessment aren't designed to impress you. They're designed to tell you what's true about where you stand.

Raphael R. Savastano

Founder, ROFONIC LLC

What You'll Get

When you finish, you'll get a score, a plain-English explanation of what it means, and a specific set of next steps based on where you actually are, not where a vendor hopes you'll be.

If your score reveals something that needs immediate attention, I'll tell you that directly. If you're in better shape than you thought, I'll tell you that too.

Either way, you'll know more in 7 minutes than most founders learn in years of guessing.

Takes 7 minutes. Results delivered immediately. Free, no obligation, no vendor agenda.

Common Questions

Founders, owners, and CEOs of businesses between $10M and $75M who are responsible for technology decisions but don't have a senior IT leader helping them make them. Manufacturing, distribution, industrial services, construction, and trades businesses are the most common fit. If technology decisions in your business are being made by whoever has the most patience for it, this is for you.

Nothing. The assessment is free. The results are yours. The only thing I ask is that you answer honestly. The score is only as useful as the answers behind it.

You'll receive your score and a full breakdown by email within minutes. If your results suggest a conversation would be useful, you'll have the option to book one. There's no pressure and no follow-up campaign if you're not interested. I'm not in the business of chasing people who don't want to be found.

Because the founders I want to work with make decisions based on real information, not sales pitches. This assessment is how we both find out if working together makes sense. If it does, great. If it doesn't, you still walk away knowing more about your business than you did before.