Know what's actually holding your business back — before you build anything.
InfoSrch builds AI-augmented diagnostic instruments that find what is actually constraining a business — and say plainly what they cannot determine. The Pain Point Inventory is the line, and which instrument you want depends on whose business is being read. What they find, read together, becomes the Business Pain Point Index.
Received a Pain Point Inventory invitation by mail? It came from us. The Inventory is a structured diagnostic developed by InfoSrch, and your invitation is genuine — responses come directly to Dr. Francis. Questions before you begin? Write to us or verify credentials on LinkedIn.
The Pain Point Inventory
Most businesses don't have an AI problem. They have a diagnosis problem.
When growth stalls, the temptation is to guess — a new offer, a new funnel, a new tool. Guessing is expensive. The Pain Point Inventory replaces guessing with a structured diagnostic that finds the real constraint and returns a plain-language finding you can act on.
It is a line rather than a single instrument, because the question is different depending on whose business is being read. Each one is built on the same method, and each says plainly what it cannot determine.
Entrepreneur Pain Point Inventory
For owners of operating businesses reading their own operation — trades, construction, service firms, dealers, manufacturers, professional practices. Fifteen minutes, and the report arrives by email.
Consultant Pain Point Inventory
The same method, pointed outward. An instrument a coach or consultant runs on a client, returning a diagnosis they can work from rather than a questionnaire they have to interpret.
Dr. Peter Francis
Founder & Agentic Architect of InfoSrch. Nearly thirty years in higher education — most recently as an Academic Director responsible for academic strategy serving 180,000 active students, where he led the institution's practical AI adoption. Three decades of diagnosing learning and performance gaps at institutional scale, now applied full-time to the businesses the instruments read.
His personal mission: distill the wisdom of the ages — cut through the noise, find the truth, package it into actionable forms, and share it widely.
- CredentialPh.D., Organization & Management
- FoundedInfoSrch, 2008 — Glendale, Arizona
- Prior roleAcademic Director, national education group (through 2026)
- Current workThe Pain Point Inventory line — diagnostic instruments for entrepreneurs, coaches & consultants
Working with Pete Francis on 90 Days to Clarity was one of the most productive collaborations I have experienced — he brought immediate clarity and structure to a complex project. What impressed me most was his ability to use AI tools to compress what would have taken months into weeks, without sacrificing quality. Any entrepreneur looking to accelerate their path to clarity would be well served working with him.
Dr. Gary M. Eckert, DBAFounder, Eckert Consulting · Author, 90 Days to Clarity
I have worked with Peter Francis for over two decades. He is super smart, resourceful and develops practical solutions that leaders, business owners and consultants can implement ASAP. Recently, my company has been awarded projects with large volumes of data, requiring analysis, insight and then reporting on complex problems. I again turned to Peter and his AI knowledge and assistance has provided real meaningful value to me and my clients.
KJ KuchtaFounder, Digital Accuity, LLC
Peter's real intelligence is what makes him so damn good at generating better results from agentic systems. His broad knowledge of AI is framed by decades of professional consulting and leadership experience. Indeed, I'm always impressed by his ability to ask smarter, deeper questions with wit, humility, and curiosity that nudge human learners and stump the augmented ones.
Dr. Marc PorterChief Academic Officer, Maestro University
Beyond diagnosis
Diagnosis is the beginning, not the product. Once an Inventory has named what is actually constraining the business, InfoSrch designs and builds AI-augmented systems matched to what the findings show — not to what the market is hyping.
The Business Pain Point Index
One assessment reads one business. Many of them read the terrain.
Every Inventory produces a structured diagnosis: the constraint found, the mechanism behind it, and the gap between the problem the owner named and the one the evidence pointed at. Read together, those diagnoses answer a question no single assessment can — what actually constrains businesses at this scale, and how often the presenting complaint turns out to be the wrong one.
The Index is the published form of that reading. Ranked findings and recurring misdiagnoses on the quantitative side; on the qualitative side, what a constraint actually looks like in practice and the shapes it takes in a three-person operation versus a thirty-person one. Deidentified and aggregated throughout — individual responses and reports are never published, and any direct quotation is used only with that respondent's specific permission for that passage.
Every participant receives it when it is published, at no cost. It is early, and the respondents who take part now are the ones who determine what it can see.
Let's connect
Whether you've completed an Inventory or you're just sizing us up — the connection is welcome either way.