About

The standard, written down, where the operators can see it.

Cadence Standard exists because most mid-market manufacturing sites are leaking money to losses they can't see — and almost none of the off-the-shelf "operational excellence" content gets close enough to the shop floor to do anything about it.

John Marston at a wooden desk, navy shirt, notebook and pen, daylight from a window — John Marston

It's built by John Marston — 20 years across UK brewing and beverage production, with the workbench scars to back the tools up. The work was built in the running of real sites — overhauling line cadence at a brewery doing £40k of changeover loss a week, fixing a 5S programme that died in month two, standing up a tiered DMS at a packaging hall that couldn't find its own scrap rate.

John Marston sketching a process diagram in a notebook at a wooden desk — Every tool here started life as a working sketch.

What you'll find here is the working set: the audit forms, FI Wave templates, SOPs and KPI dashboards that world-class manufacturers actually use, packaged so any ops manager can pick them up and run with them on Monday morning.

What this is not

Not consulting. There's no Calendly link.
Not a webinar funnel. No drip campaigns.
Not a founder-cult LinkedIn grind. The name on the door, but the work is what's for sale — not the personality.
Not theory. Every tool ships with a worked example from a real site.
Not "world-class" marketing copy. Plain English. Plain pricing.

What it is

A small, growing catalogue of products priced for the ops manager, not the procurement department:

The £97 Lean Toolkit — eight tabs of working tools in a single Excel workbook
Cadence Six — a six-axis maturity assessment with a tiered playbook + done-with-you programme
Template Packs — standalone jobs like ERP cutover, DMS rollout, PIR closure
Free diagnostics and the notes

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