Free connected scanFreshservice & ZendeskRead-only · no card · ~5 minutes
Score your service desk in five minutes

See exactly what's holding back your service desk.

Connect Freshservice or Zendesk read-only and get a health score across seven dimensions — plus the single fix that moves it most. Free, in about five minutes.

Read-only, no card. Nothing you connect is ever stored.

Built from real-world experience managing and improving modern IT service operations.

Real-world IT operations experience, not theoretical best practice

12h 42m → 1h 36m

Average resolution time, before and after a structured improvement programme I led

4h 54m → 37m

Average first-contact time across the same period

28% → 68%

First-contact resolution rate over the same period

These are results from an internal IT operation I ran directly — not client outcomes. Client case studies will be published as audits complete.

The problem

Most IT leaders can feel the desk is underperforming — long before they can prove where.

Ticket volumes climbing while the team stays the same size

Repetitive manual work crowding out real improvement

Service levels that are missed, or never clearly defined

Weak knowledge management, so the same issues get solved twice

Reporting that describes the past but doesn't guide decisions

Automation opportunities sitting unused

An inconsistent experience that erodes trust in IT

No clear, prioritised plan for what to improve first

You don't need another tool. You need to understand exactly where the time is going, why, and what to fix first — with a plan you can act on.

Beyond the dashboard

Your dashboard already tells you ticket volume. That's not what this is.

The scan surfaces the things that only show up when you join data together — demand against coverage, where time is actually spent, each category against its own norm — and your dashboard tracks them over time. Every finding comes with the number attached, and a fix.

Your top ticket driver with no knowledge article — and what that gap costs you in agent hours

Thirty separate incidents that are really one unfixed problem, solved individually instead of once

The specific triage path bouncing tickets between two teams — one rule to fix, not a training problem

Whether your slow tickets are slow because of the work, or because nobody chased the requester

Which single category one person resolves most of — and what happens to that queue when they're on leave

What you receive

A professional engagement, not a questionnaire.

The Service Desk Performance Audit is technology-supported analysis with expert human review. You receive:

Structured service desk review

Service desk maturity analysis

Executive summary

Category-level findings

Key risks and operational constraints

Prioritised recommendations

Quick wins

90-day improvement roadmap

Priority matrix

Results walkthrough

Leadership-ready report

How it works

Connect, score, fix, track.

Connect

Connect Freshservice or Zendesk read-only in a couple of minutes. Nothing you connect is stored.

Score

Get a health score across seven dimensions, your weakest area, and the single fix that moves it most.

Fix

Work the findings in your dashboard — turn each into a task and track it through to done.

Track

Re-scan on a schedule and watch your score history improve over time.

Want expert review and a prioritised 90-day roadmap on top of your scan results? The Expert Audit is the optional expert layer — a practitioner reviews your findings and builds the plan with you.

The framework

Seven dimensions of a high-performing service desk.

One framework across everything we do — the free scan, your dashboard, and the Expert Audit all measure these seven dimensions, so your results are structured, comparable and improve over time.

01

Ticket Data Quality

Whether your ticket data is clean enough to trust, report on and learn from.

02

Ticket Categorisation

Whether tickets are classified consistently enough to see your real demand.

03

Knowledge Base

Whether knowledge deflects demand instead of the same issues being re-solved.

04

Routing & Automation

Whether work reaches the right team without manual triage and bouncing.

05

SLA Configuration

Whether your service levels reflect the business and are actively managed.

06

Service Catalogue

Whether common requests are structured, complete and approved in-tool.

07

Canned Responses / Macros

Whether agents answer common issues quickly and consistently.

Why ServiceDeskBuilder

ServiceDeskBuilder is built for real service desk challenges, not textbook theory. It exists to turn operational information into prioritised findings and a realistic improvement roadmap — the practical clarity IT managers actually need. The analysis is technology-supported; the judgement is human.

I'm Max Hazell. I run IT operations day to day and built this after repeatedly seeing teams reach for a new tool before diagnosing how the existing service was really operating.

More about ServiceDeskBuilder

Pricing

Start free. Add the dashboard and the Expert Audit when you're ready.

Free Scan

£0no card

Connect Freshservice or Zendesk read-only and get your score in minutes.

  • Overall health score /100
  • All seven dimension scores
  • Your weakest area + one specific fix
  • Read-only · nothing stored
Run my free scan

Dashboard

£79/ month

Keep scanning. Track your score over time and turn findings into tasks.

  • Everything in Free Scan
  • Score history + trend tracking
  • Scheduled re-scans + drift alerts
  • Findings → task tracker
  • Benchmarks against similar desks
See dashboard plans

Expert Audit · add-on

£745£995

Expert review of your scan plus a prioritised 90-day roadmap. Founding rate for the first 10 organisations.

  • Practitioner review of every finding
  • Prioritised 90-day improvement roadmap
  • Executive, leadership-ready report
  • Results walkthrough
Add the Expert Audit

Prices are the final amount payable. The scan is always free — the dashboard and Expert Audit are optional.

FAQ

Questions

See where your service desk stands.

Connect Freshservice or Zendesk read-only and get your health score in five minutes — free, no card. Then keep it improving in the dashboard, and add the Expert Audit when you want the plan built with you.