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Handoff failure 04 of 05

Three or more tools hold parts of the same job, and people move the data by hand.

For ops leads and executives in mid-market DACH/EU organizations whose week runs across inbox, spreadsheets, chat and three or more SaaS tools, and whose work dies in the handoffs between them.

Every tool is fine on its own. The work dies in the gap between them.

What it looks like

  • The same customer, order or ticket exists under different names in different tools.
  • Someone exports a CSV weekly to make two systems agree.
  • Errors surface late, usually at invoicing or delivery.
  • Nobody is sure which tool is authoritative for which field.

What it costs

  • Manual transfer sets the pace of the whole workflow.
  • Each copy is an opportunity for a typo that shows up in front of a customer.
  • Adding a tool makes it worse, so useful software gets blocked for the wrong reason.

No percentages are published here. Runway Fuel measures the cost inside your own workflow, from the brief you send after payment.

Three checks you can run this week, for free

  • List the tools involved in one workflow and draw who copies what into which. Count the arrows drawn by a human.
  • For each shared field, name the tool that owns it. Two owners mean a conflict you have not hit yet.
  • Time the weekly export-and-fix ritual. That number is the integration budget you are already spending.

If those checks are hard to answer, that is the finding: the handoff has no owner, no deadline or no record.

How the Runway Fuel Diagnostic maps it

Price
€295 one-time (EUR)
Delivery
3 business days
You receive
Constraint Map + 30-day execution stack
  1. Secure checkout on Stripe. The server sets the price; you only choose the engagement.
  2. Confirmation email with a private link to your order page.
  3. Intake: you submit a short brief on that page (background, goals, tools in use, constraints).
  4. Delivery: the artifact arrives by email and on your order page within the stated business days.

Refunds follow the refund policy; delivery timing follows the fulfillment policy.

Questions buyers ask

Is this the Diagnostic or the Execution Blueprint?

Start with the €295 Diagnostic when you are not sure which gap costs most. Choose the €1,950 Execution Blueprint when the problem already spans many tools and teams and you need the build plan: a system map, an integration list, a 90-day sequence and a risk register you can hand to an implementer.

Do you build the integrations?

The Implementation Deposit, €1,000, starts implementation work once the first build step is clear; activation follows within 2 business days. You can also take the Blueprint to your own team or another partner. Nothing in the artifact depends on Runway Fuel building it.

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