Most engagements install all five. Each one is a discrete piece of the cadence, designed against the actual company and embedded with the management team, not handed over as a deck.
A single one-hour weekly meeting that replaces the scattered status calls the executive team is currently running. We design the standing agenda, the pre-read template, the metrics the room actually looks at, and the decision log that turns conversation into commitment. Installed live, by the actual leadership team, in the first six weeks.
Quarterly objectives written so they are usable on a Tuesday, not just at the offsite. We design the cascade rules from company OKRs to team OKRs, run a calibration process for the leadership team, and install the quarterly business review that closes one quarter cleanly before opening the next. Includes scoring and revision discipline.
The meetings between the functions, product and revenue, ops and finance, sales and delivery, engineering and customer success, that usually run on goodwill and Slack threads. We map the dependencies, design the working contracts, build the shared dashboards, and define the escalation path so coordination stops being a personal favor between specific people.
Who decides what, on what cadence, with what input, written down once, used every week. We separate the decisions that belong in the WBR from the ones that belong on a manager's desk, install a memo-and-meeting pattern for the larger calls, and run a bottleneck audit so the executive team stops being a checkpoint on routine work.
The new rhythm only survives if the managers running it are honest about how they show up. Six to twelve weeks of coaching on the leadership team's operating habits, meeting preparation, presence in the room, follow-through between meetings, embedded inside the live cadence, not delivered as a separate workshop track.
After the install, an optional retainer that joins the QBR once a quarter, audits the cadence between visits, and pulls drift back before it becomes a re-engagement. The least flashy work we do and usually the most valuable. Monthly fee, cancellable, runs as long as it earns its keep.
Pick the shape that fits the decision in front of you. Almost every full engagement begins with an Assessment, so the design is built on observation rather than self-report.
A fixed-fee read on the company's current rhythm, interviews with the leadership team, observation of the existing meetings, a review of the dashboards and decision logs, and a written friction inventory. You finish with a clear picture of what is breaking and a recommendation on whether install work is warranted. No obligation to continue.
The core engagement. We turn the assessment into a designed cadence, run a two-day design workshop with the leadership team, and stay in the room for eight to twelve weeks while the new rhythm is run for the first time. Ends with the cadence running on its own, document templates handed over, and the management team in charge.
Optional, light-touch retainer for clients who want a steady hand after the install. We join the QBR every quarter, audit the cadence between visits, hold monthly office hours for the management team, and pull the rhythm back when it drifts. Monthly fee, cancellable on thirty days, never sold by default.
Every engagement is led by the partner who scopes it. There is no pitch-then-pass pattern, no analyst bench, and no junior delivery layer. The person who reads your situation in the first call is the person who is in the room for the Design workshop and the Install weeks. That is the only delivery model we run.
Delivery is remote-first by default. The Assessment can be run entirely remotely, interviews on video, meeting observation by joining the existing calendar, document review over a shared drive. The Design workshop and the first weeks of Install are usually done in person, because the working sessions that turn a designed cadence into a real habit benefit from a room, a wall and an absence of laptops. Travel is included in the fixed fee; you do not see surprise expenses.
Every company has a rhythm already. Our job is rarely to invent one from scratch, it is to redesign what is there so it actually works. The cadences we most often touch:
All engagements are fixed-fee and scoped before the work starts. The Assessment is a fixed fee, quoted on a first call once we understand the company's size and shape. The Design & Install fee is quoted at the end of the Assessment so the price reflects what is actually being installed. The Sustain retainer is monthly, cancellable on thirty days, and quoted alongside the Install handover. We do not bill hourly and we do not sell hours.