Engagement match
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Find your starting point

Five questions, two minutes. An honest read on which of our seven 90-day engagements fits your situation — or whether a free discovery call is the better next step. No email required to see the result.

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Strategy
Live tool

Vendor Evaluation Scorecard

Compare two SaaS vendors (or build vs. buy) across the seven things that actually matter — cost, integration, lock-in, time to value, scalability, team fit, and AI readiness. Weighted scoring, side-by-side comparison, honest recommendation.

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Architecture
Live tool

Tech Debt Cost Calculator

List your debt items, estimate the friction in hours per week per affected person, get a real annual cost. Triages each item into pay down now, pay down this quarter, monitor, or ignore based on weekly drag.

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Team & Coaching
Live tool

Team Health Scorecard

Twelve questions every team leader privately knows the answer to but rarely names. Whether retros produce action, whether disagreement makes it into the meeting, whether new hires actually get productive, whether people stay because they want to. Practitioner-level, not vendor-survey HR-speak.

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All six pillars
Live tool

Tech & AI Opportunity Score

A nine-question diagnostic across all six pillars — Strategy, Transformation, AI, Architecture, Process Excellence, Leadership. Get a multi-axis read on where the gaps actually are, not a single vanity score.

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Process Excellence
Live tool

Engineering Team Baseline

The four-lens framework we run on our own systems — overall health, compliance evidence, AI risk posture, deployment risk. 20 questions, radar chart, and the lowest individual items flagged so you know where to start.

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Strategy
Live tool

Build vs. Buy ROI Calculator

Cumulative cost over your real time horizon, the year the answer flips, and a sensitivity panel showing what changes the verdict. Not just NPV — the levers that matter when the spreadsheet meets reality.

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Leadership
Live tool

The CTO Test

Seven questions every founder should be able to answer in a sentence. Self-rate your confidence; get a graded report card with what good looks like for each gap and where to dig in next.

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Compliance & AI
Live tool

SOC2 + AI Readiness

Fourteen questions across the SOC2 trust criteria and the new 2026 AI governance expectations. Self-rate your current state; get a graded read on where you'd land if a customer security review showed up tomorrow.

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Manufacturing
Live tool

Shop Floor Data Maturity

Twelve questions about whether your leadership team can actually answer the operating questions that matter — daily ship plan, margin by job, labor variance, bus-factor risk — and where the data lives that lets them. Heat map of where the operating picture is real vs. guessed at.

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Insurance
Live tool

Book Visibility Scorecard

Twelve questions for independent insurance agencies. Can you answer the operating questions about your own book — retention, concentration, loss ratio, renewal completion, E&O exposure — in under 5 minutes? The data is in your AMS. The architecture and rhythm to surface it usually isn't.

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Why these are free.

These tools are the diagnostic frameworks we use in every engagement. Run them yourself — the questions are sharper than most of what you'll find elsewhere, and the scores are real. But a number on a page isn't the same as an experienced practitioner sitting with you through the result. Sequencing the work, weighing trade-offs across pillars, picking which fight to take first, getting an unbiased outside read on a decision the team's been arguing about for months — that's where the engagement earns its keep. The tools start the conversation. The free 30-minute discovery call is where we look at your situation together — with 20+ years of pattern recognition in the room.

Want an experienced outside voice on the harder calls?

30 minutes, free, no slides, no pitch. We'll talk through what's actually stuck and whether experienced technical leadership is the right next move.

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