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The Value Gap Audit

Where your value leaks.

We read your website the way your buyer does. Then we show you where the value leaks out, and the sale with it.

Not an SEO audit. It scores the proposition itself: whether you are clear, different, believed, wanted and easy to buy. Free, about two minutes.

Start your audit

Free. One website in, a full value read out in a minute or two.

A capability statement, company profile, one-pager or sales deck. We read the text and audit it alongside your site.

Drop a PDF here, or click to browse
Capability statement, company profile, one-pager or deck · up to two
Safe to share. Your file is read once and never stored. It never trains an AI.

Who you want to beat. We compare your value against theirs and show where you win and where they do.

Most audits take 1 to 2 minutes. We read your homepage and the key pages of your buyer journey.

Who trusts the thinking behind it
‘3 years, with endless management meetings, and Step Change nailed it in one morning.’
Eric HessManaging Director, AGSERV
‘So far beyond any consultant I have worked with.’
Kim OverallSr Vice President, Sony Home Entertainment
‘Step Change grasps concepts very fast and are unbelievably creative, crafting amazing copy.’
Jost StollmannExecutive Director, Tyro Payments
Businesses have run the Value Gap Audit
2026
Global Recognition Award winner
In the media
‘The audit’s most useful output isn’t the score. It is the second or two after a confident founder pastes in her own website, watches the number load, and goes quiet.’
Grit Daily · Jordan French
Reading you the way a buyer does

A proper audit takes up to two minutes.

Want some company while the AI does the work? Ashton explains what you're about to get, and why it matters. Two minutes, same as the audit.

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The scorecard

Five dimensions, each scored out of 20, adding up to your score out of 100. 10 is sector average, 20 is outstanding, 0 is a complete miss. Hover an eye for what each one measures.

Audience fitA quick read of who you land for. It does not change your score.
Human audience
Humans buy on a felt outcome, one clear message, and proof they believe.
AI audience
AI engines recommend what they can read in plain text, quote, and trust.
What is working
Where your value leaks
Competitive positioning
Appendix · what we looked at
Website
Collateral
Competitor compared
Proof we found on you
Fix this first

Nail your value. Nail the sale.

First, take your report. When you want to go deeper, review it with a Step Change strategist.

The audit names the gaps. Closing them is the work.

Book a free 25-minute strategy consult to review this with a Step Change strategist.

Ashton Bishop, Founder, Step Change
Ashton Bishop Founder, Step Change

This audit runs the same method we use with clients and deliver from the keynote stage. It is a diagnosis, not a pitch. Nothing in it is designed to flatter you. Read it, argue with it, and fix what it finds.

"We exist to help challenger businesses outsmart their competitors." That starts with an honest diagnosis, even when it stings.

3x Speaker of the YearA record three times in four years at The Executive Connection (now Vistage), the world's largest CEO network.
Since 2007A Sydney strategy and creative consultancy, built for challenger businesses.
Up to 100 a yearWe worked with up to 100 challengers a year for 20 years, so we have seen best practice and next practice.
Our own IPPredatory Marketing, History's Greatest Strategists and the Complete Step Change method sit under this score.
P.S. · Value Proposition Cliché Bingo

One last read: we scanned your own pages and collateral for the stock phrases every business reaches for, the ones on the bingo card. Here is where your language landed.

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P.P.S. We play Value Proposition Cliché Bingo live on stage, and the same clichés come up every time.

You've seen the surface.
The gold's underneath.

You've spent two minutes waiting.
We've spent the tokens doing the work.
Before we reveal the real gold,
we just need to know you're a real person.

No spam. No pestering. We promise.

What we do with your details →

You don't win the price war. You win the value war.

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