Why do you charge for an audit if the 30-minute call is free?+
The free call is to understand whether we are a good fit as counterparts. A real audit takes 8-12 hours of our work: we request access, review configurations, map integrations, validate data, document findings. Charging for it lets us do the work properly without being fixated on closing the sale of the big project. And it filters for you: if the report tells you the problem is organizational and not technical, you have saved yourself hiring a dev you did not need. We share the cost after the 30-minute call based on your case.
What do you need from us to get started?+
Read access to your Holded (auditor user or admin with read-only permissions), access to the relevant connected platforms (n8n, Make, dashboards, GitHub if there is custom code), and an initial 60-minute session with whoever knows the current stack. If part of it runs on your own VPS or internal servers, SSH access or meetings with your IT team. Nothing more.
Who does the audit?+
It is done by Juan Cantón directly, not a junior, not a salesperson. The same technical profile who writes the posts on this blog and maintains n8n-nodes-holded on npm. We do not subcontract.
How is this different from a free consultation?+
In the scope and the deliverable. A free consultation is 30 minutes and an informal opinion. An audit is 5 days of work, a written report you can show the board, verifiable evidence for each finding, and an actionable roadmap. If you present it internally and no one questions it, we have done the work right.
If we later hire you to implement, do you discount the cost of the audit?+
Yes: if within 90 days of the report you hire us for a project, the cost of the audit is discounted from the first quote. It is not blackmail, it simply avoids you paying twice for the same discovery work.
Do you only audit Holded or other ERPs too?+
Our specialty is Holded and its ecosystem. If your stack is A3, Sage, Odoo or another ERP, we can audit the integrations and automations around it but not the internal configuration of the ERP in depth. For that you would need a consultant specialized in that product.
And if during the audit you find something critical I was not expecting?+
We tell you as soon as we find it, we do not wait to deliver the report. If it is a security vulnerability, an incorrectly issued invoice that could lead to a penalty, or an integration that is silently losing data, we call the same day.