The product
The Assessment
Three weeks. One published price. An independent reading of what is actually wrong with the programme, and a recommendation you own.
What it delivers
Receptivity. Sponsorship, capacity, decision rights, prior change history, and the ability to sustain a change after we leave. If this gate fails, the assessment stops here. That is the finding, and the recommendation becomes preparation rather than intervention.
Constraint. Six dimensions tested against evidence: market, offer, brand, experience, system, growth. Prioritised on impact times confidence divided by effort.
Recommendation. One of five: fix, rescope, restart, prepare, or stop, with what it costs, what it saves, and the sequence it has to happen in.
Measures agreed in advance, so the next argument in the room is about evidence rather than opinion.
How it is priced
One fee, fixed before the work begins. Not a day rate that runs while we read your documents, and not an estimate that grows once we are inside. The scope, the fee and the end date are agreed together, in writing, before you commit to any of them.
A fraction of one per cent of the commitment, spent establishing whether the commitment is the right one.
That is the whole commercial argument, and it is why an assessment survives a budget review that open-ended advisory work does not. It is not a retainer and it cannot quietly become one.
Common questions
Is the fee credited against implementation?
No. Crediting it would make this a discount on a sale we want, which is exactly the conflict the product exists to remove.
Can you deliver the recovery afterwards?
Possibly, under a separate scope, price and decision that you make once the findings are yours. We are independent of the original builder, not of work that may follow, and we will not claim otherwise.
What if it says stop?
Then it says stop. That is one of five named outputs and it costs the same as the others.
Who sees the findings?
You, and whoever you choose. See the discretion policy.
Who does the work?
One accountable senior lead, personally, and the same person throughout. Specialists, where an engagement needs them, are named in the proposal before they start. How the practice is staffed.
Begin
A first conversation establishes whether the four conditions are met. If they are not, we will say so and there is no charge for finding out.