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Start from the problem, not the tool

You do not need to know what to switch to. Pick the symptom you recognise and we work back to the category, ask what separates the options inside it, and rank them for your team.

11 problems

Which one sounds like you?

Team communication

Our team chat is a mess and nobody can find anything

Conversation volume has outgrown the tool. Decisions are made in channels nobody else reads, and search stopped being useful months ago.

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Project management

Nobody knows what anyone is working on

Work is tracked in three places and none of them agree. Status meetings exist purely to reconcile the spreadsheets.

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Documentation & wiki

Our documentation is out of date and nobody trusts it

The wiki exists, but people ask a colleague instead of reading it — which is the clearest possible signal that it has stopped working.

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Design & prototyping

Design handoff keeps breaking

What ships does not match what was designed, and the gap is discovered in QA rather than in review.

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Video conferencing

We are paying too much for video meetings

Host seats sit unused, add-ons were bought for one event and never cancelled, and the renewal quote went up again.

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Email marketing

Our email bill scales with contacts who never open anything

You are billed on list size rather than engagement, so the fastest way to cut cost is to delete customers — which nobody wants to do.

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CRM & sales

Our reps will not update the CRM

The pipeline in the tool and the pipeline in reality have diverged, so forecasting is guesswork dressed as a dashboard.

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Customer support

Support tickets are drowning us

Volume grew faster than the team. Response times are slipping and the cost per agent seat makes hiring out of it unattractive.

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SEO tools

We cannot tell whether our SEO is working

Traffic moves, and nobody can say why. Rankings are checked by hand, the last technical audit was a spreadsheet, and the agency invoice arrives regardless.

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Marketing automation

Every marketing email is still sent by hand

Onboarding, re-engagement and renewal reminders are all somebody remembering to press send. The sequences you designed last year were never built.

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Product & web analytics

Nobody trusts the analytics numbers

Two dashboards disagree, the cookie banner ate a third of the traffic, and every meeting starts by arguing about whether the data is right.

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Questions

About this path

What if my problem is not listed?

Pick the closest one. Each problem maps to a category, and the category is what decides the questions — the exact wording of the symptom matters less than which part of your stack it lives in.

What if the problem is us, not the tool?

That is a real and common answer, and we will say so. The questionnaire asks what is driving the change specifically to separate a capability gap from a habit. If the honest answer is that a new tool would reproduce the same mess, switching is an expensive way to avoid a harder conversation.

Do I need to know what I want to switch to?

No — that is the point of this path. Describe the symptom and we work back to the category, then rank every credible option in it against your answers.