The audit forms, SOPs, FI Wave templates and KPI frameworks that work — packaged as tools you can pick up and run with on Monday morning.
£10M–£100M turnover. F&B, FMCG, light industrial. Sites running multiple lines, multiple shifts, real complexity.
People who run real production, not consultants. Anyone who's ever had to fix a line on a Tuesday afternoon and didn't have time for a slide deck.
If you want a transformation programme, hire a consultancy. If you want the tools that those programmes use, you're in the right place.
No card, no signup, no sales call. Run them on your phone. Both give you a branded report and a prioritised action list.
Score your site against the 25 criteria that actually matter. Sort, Set, Shine, Standardise, Sustain — five out of five each. Get a branded PDF with priority actions for your two lowest-scoring phases.
Where is your factory leaking money? Five loss boxes — Availability, Performance, Quality, Changeover, Yield — ranked by pain. Each one comes with the lean tool that fixes it and a £/year impact estimate for your site.
5S audit first if your site has the basics in place but inconsistency. Loss Diagnostic if you want the £-impact picture. Both take 8 minutes combined.
Every card below is something that lives in the Toolkit. No content marketing fluff, no "framework" PDFs, no AI-generated filler. Just the tools.
Everything the diagnostics tell you about, packaged as the audit forms, SOPs, FI Wave templates and KPI frameworks you'd actually use to fix it.
Launches late May 2026 · diagnostic completers get first access
Anyone who completes either diagnostic gets first access to the Toolkit at launch with a 20% early-buyer discount. Same email, same form, no separate signup.
Cadence Standard was built by John Marston after twenty years running operations and improvement programmes at mid-market manufacturers. Every tool here came from solving an actual problem on an actual factory floor — not from a textbook, not from a slide deck.
The diagnostics are deliberately free. The Toolkit is deliberately £97. The reasoning is simple: if you can't see the value of the framework from the free tools, the Toolkit isn't for you. And if you can, £97 is what it costs.
No consultancy upsells. No subscription locks. No discovery calls before you can see the price. Just the tools.
It's optimised for mid-market F&B and FMCG manufacturing. Light industrial, packaging, processed food and beverage all fit. If you make complex one-off products in low volume — aerospace, custom build — the framework still applies but you'd need to adapt the templates.
Because the tools should stand on their own merit, not on someone's profile photo. If the diagnostics make sense and the Toolkit looks useful, that's the trust. The LinkedIn is there if you want it — search "Cadence Standard" — but it isn't the point.
Standard 30-day refund via Gumroad on the Toolkit. The diagnostics are free — nothing to refund.