Tools

Diagnostic tools before commercial decisions.

Use these tools to test the nature of the problem before choosing the wrong platform, supplier, process, consultant, market route, or technical fashion accessory.

The diagnostic set

Each tool is designed to clarify the problem and route the visitor towards the correct next step.

Email Risk Checker

A quick test for deciding whether ordinary email is appropriate for the information being shared.

What it checks: Whether the content involves sensitive, temporary, access-related, confidential, client-related, or professionally risky information.

Best for: Professionals who need a fast answer before sending information through ordinary email.

When to use it: Before sending passwords, access links, confidential notes, private instructions, client details, settlement figures, payroll instructions, or similar material.

Commercial route: Secure Information Review or Jambastic.

Email Risk Checker

Next step

If the result suggests that ordinary email is not appropriate, consider a Secure Information Review or explore Jambastic.

Confidential Communication Risk Checker

A broader diagnostic for professional environments where sensitive information may be mishandled during ordinary daily work.

What it checks: Whether the communication creates unnecessary exposure through email, chat, forwarding, searchable history, backups, archives, screenshots, or later discovery.

Best for: Law firms, accountants, advisers, consultants, agencies, private offices, and other high-trust environments.

When to use it: When the exchange involves responsibility, client trust, professional confidentiality, access data, identity details, commercial sensitivity, or operational risk.

Commercial route: Secure Information Review.

Risk Checker

Next step

If the communication involves sensitive, temporary, client-related, access-related, or commercially important information, request a Secure Information Review.

AI Theatre Detector

A practical test for separating useful technology from expensive nonsense wearing an artificial moustache.

What it checks: Whether an AI proposal, product, internal project, consultant pitch, webinar, or platform is vague, inflated, unmeasurable, risky, or commercially weak.

Best for: Business owners, managers, consultants, and teams evaluating AI claims.

When to use it: Before buying, approving, presenting, recommending, or internally celebrating an AI initiative.

Commercial route: AI & Automation Review.

AI Theatre Detector

Next step

If the proposal or project smells of theatre, request an AI & Automation Review before it becomes an invoice.

Automation or AI?

A decision tool for businesses wondering whether the problem really needs AI, ordinary automation, better data, a clearer process, a database, a form, a spreadsheet, or human review.

What it checks: Whether the issue is primarily process, data, human judgement, database structure, automation, AI, or simple tooling.

Best for: Teams facing confusing technology decisions.

When to use it: Before building, buying, automating, connecting systems, asking for AI, or creating yet another spreadsheet with delusions of grandeur.

Commercial route: AI & Automation Review or Business Engineering Review.

Automation or AI?

Next step

If the result is not obvious, request an AI & Automation Review or Business Engineering Review.

Market Entry Reality Check

A free diagnostic for companies considering a new market, distributor search, competitor mapping, or candidate-organisation discovery before spending money on the wrong route.

What it checks: Whether your market-entry question, target country, customer type, competitor field, and candidate-organisation need are clear enough for useful intelligence work.

Best for: Companies considering IDAAS, market entry, distributor search, competitor mapping, or candidate organisations for verification.

When to use it: Before paying for market research, databases, agents, distributors, trade fairs, outreach, or market-entry activity.

Commercial route: IDAAS / Market Intelligence Review.

Use the Market Entry Reality Check

Next step

If the market question is still unclear, request a Market Intelligence Review or explore IDAAS.

Start with a practical review.

Use the review when the next step is commercially important and the wrong decision would cost time, money, trust, or operational clarity.

Request a Practical Review