Andrew Fisher

And I mean, you could do this in spreadsheets, but, you know, it's something that if you're not doing all the time, it's, you know, you're starting from scratch a bit.

So I think it is really powerful.

And I think, you know, really sort of highlighted that it was a big commitment for Christian to take on.

But, you know, I guess at least he was going into it with that sort of visibility.

And you were worried about him buying security cows and lights.

I mean, it's an emotional thing that kicks these off, isn't it?

These goals, but then this brings it back to reality and gives you that chance to look at the data and go, well, do I need to pull back my emotions or can we let them run?

Yeah, so it was back in 2024.

My wife and our two kids took a six week holiday to Greece.

My wife, her family are from Greece.

And so we spent some time over there having a look around and spending time with her family.

We got back, she went back to work.

There'd been a restructure in the organisation she was at and she no longer had a job, which is a bit of a shock.

after taking a break and it wasn't a cheap holiday either.

But, you know, the benefit of Pocketsmith here was that we had, you know, all our data in there.

We had budgets and it was a really easy sort of process to go in there and just model what this was, you know, going to look like for the next, you know, six months.

I think she was back working in a six-month period.

Yeah.

you know, that took the stress out of, well, a part of the stress out of what is a stressful situation, right?

So, you know, really quickly we got a view on how things were going to look and it's like, okay, we're right.