Your site is leaking money to losses no one can see.
Not the breakdowns — the 95-minute changeover that should take 22, the line running under speed every shift, the 5S that died in month two. The Cadence Standard is the 90-day operating rhythm that finds them and locks the fix. Built by an operator, not a consultant.
First 100 lock founding access at £97 (then £197). No spam — one note when it opens, unsubscribe in a click.
- No consultant required
- No software to license
- No subscription
Three ways in, depending on who you're fixing things for.
Same operating standard, three contexts. Pick the one that matches what you run.
For the operator
Cadence Standard Toolkit
Eight tabs of working tools. Same audit forms, KPI dashboards, FI templates I'd hand a new ops manager on Monday.
For the whole site
Cadence Six
Six-axis maturity diagnostic. Free assessment. Self-paced playbook. Done-with-you 90-day programme.
For the household
Cadence Home
Same operating discipline applied to family life. Mental Load Map, Sunday Reset, Sick Day SOP, household standards library.
Most mid-market sites are leaking money to losses they can't see.
Not from breakdowns. From the routine stuff that nobody owns.
A changeover that should take 22 minutes that takes 95. A line running 4% under nameplate speed every shift. A 5S programme that died in month two.
The Cadence Standard is the working set of tools that fixes that — the same audit forms, FI Wave templates, SOPs and KPI dashboards world-class manufacturers use, packaged so any ops manager can pick them up and run with them Monday morning.
Real PDFs. Real spreadsheets. The same files I'd hand a new ops manager on Monday morning.
Loss Summary
5S Audit
SMED Analysis
KPI Dashboard
A 5S taster. Five questions. One honest verdict.
Click YES if you can answer it without lying to yourself. Click NO if you can't. No email. No score sent anywhere. Just the truth.
Your taster score
0/5
Answer all five to see your verdict.
The full 5S Audit is twenty-five questions, takes five minutes, and gives you a branded PDF.
- 01
Could a new operator find the right tool in under 30 seconds at your worst workstation?
- 02
Does everything on the line have a labelled home it returns to at end-of-shift?
- 03
Would a new leak, drip, or fault be obvious within 10 minutes of starting?
- 04
Are the audit standards posted at the workstation in a format the operator actually uses?
- 05
Did a 5S audit happen last week, and were the actions from the one before closed?
Two diagnostics. Both give you a branded PDF report you can take to Monday's huddle.
5S Audit
Free25 questions · 5 minutes
Score your site against the five S's. Branded PDF report with prioritised next steps.
Run the audit5-Box Loss Diagnostic
Free15 questions · 3 minutes
Rank your five biggest losses, with a £/year impact estimate and the lean tool that fixes each one.
Run the diagnosticThe Cadence Standard Toolkit
Eight tabs of working tools, fully populated with worked examples. One single Excel workbook, instant download.
- Fully populated with worked examples
- Single Excel workbook — no add-ons
- Instant download, yours forever
- Branded PDF report covers included
One-time
£97
- 01 Loss Summary
- 02 FI Wave Planner
- 03 5S Audit
- 04 CI Register
- 05 SMED Analysis
- 06 Wave Closure
- 07 RCA
- 08 KPI Dashboard
The three-step diagnostic that tells you exactly where to start.
Free 24-question assessment. £97–197 playbook for the team. £3–10k done-with-you programme for whole-site transformation.
Take the Assessment
24 questions, six axes, traffic-light report.
Run the Playbook
Self-paced workbook with the templates and SOPs.
Done With You
90-day programme: weekly cadence, all the templates, all the playbooks, all the questions answered.
Built by John Marston — with the workbench scars to back the tools up.
Twenty years across mid-market manufacturing operations. No webinars. No consulting calls (yet). No build-in-public thread. Just the standard, written down, where the operators can see it.
- Years in ops
- 20
- Sites turned around
- Mid-market
- Consulting calls
- 0
One short note when something useful lands.
A new tool, a teardown, a lesson from the field. No drip campaigns, no upsells. Join the founding cohort and lock founding access at £97.