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Revenue Leakage

The €2M Leak: How Most £5M Businesses Lose a Third of Their Revenue Before It Hits the Bank

Most founders know their revenue numbers. Very few know how much revenue they're losing before it even arrives. We mapped 14 client engagements to identify the five most common revenue leakage patterns - and how to fix each one.

COREX Operations · Operations · 8 min read
AI automations
AI in Operations

The 5 AI Automations Every £3M Business Should Have Running by Q2

Not ChatGPT prompts. Not AI strategy whitepapers. Five specific, production-ready automations with measurable ROI - built on platforms you already use.

COREX Operations · AI · 6 min read
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Process Design

Why Your Onboarding Process Is the Most Expensive Part of Your Business (And You Don't Know It)

Client onboarding failures are the leading cause of churn, scope creep, and margin erosion in professional services firms. Here's the framework we use to fix it.

COREX Operations · Process · 5 min read
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CRM & HubSpot

The HubSpot Setup That Actually Works for a 15-Person Business (Not a 500-Person One)

Most HubSpot implementations are designed by people who've never run a small business. This is the lean, effective setup that gets results without the enterprise overhead.

COREX Operations · HubSpot · 7 min read
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Scaling

The Founder Trap: How Staying in the Business is Killing the Business

If you're still the bottleneck in your £2M business, you don't have a business problem - you have a systems problem. Here's the pattern we see and how we break it.

COREX Operations · Scaling · 4 min read
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Recruitment

Recruitment Operations: The 3 Workflow Gaps That Cost Every Agency 20% of Their Placement Revenue

Based on 6 recruitment agency engagements. The same three gaps appear every time. Here's what they are and the exact system to close them.

COREX Operations · Recruitment · 6 min read
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Case Study

Case Study: How Cosy Cabins Went From Spreadsheet Chaos to $500k MRR With a Single Operating System

Full breakdown of the Cosy Cabins engagement: what we found, what we built, and how the numbers moved. Close rate from 14% to 29%. MRR from $0 to $500k.

COREX Operations · Case Study · 10 min read

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