One Assessment. Four artefacts. A build-ready decision in five working days.
The Assessment defines the first production outcome and the broader 90 to 180-day value path. The shipping window for any resulting Initiative is agreed from the evidence, not promised before the problem is understood.
One week. Twelve client executive hours. $5,000 fixed.
Day 1
Business pressure
CEO and revenue owner, 4 hours
Day 2
Technology reality
Technology lead joins, 4 hours
Days 3-4
Synthesis
No client meetings
Day 5
Decision
The room together, 4 hours
Day 1 is four hours with the CEO and the revenue owner. No CTO, no CFO, no EA. We identify the three to five pains preventing the strategy from becoming a shipped outcome, and write them up overnight. The discussion begins with customers, revenue, risk and operating constraints, not technology preferences.
Day 2 brings the technology lead in for four more hours. We test data availability, ownership, architecture, delivery capacity and silent prerequisites. The purpose is not to defend or criticise the existing codebase. It is to establish what can actually be built.
Days 3 and 4 are solo synthesis, with no client meetings. The evidence is reduced into the Bridge, the Strategic Roadmap, the Initiative Spec and the Outcome Hypothesis.
Day 5 is four hours in the room together. We unveil the Bridge, read the Outcome Hypothesis aloud, walk the Strategic Roadmap, and name the path: an Initiative, a Strategic Momentum Program, or a clean "not ready" verdict. All three are successful outcomes. The package goes home with the client regardless.
Four artefacts, kept regardless of continuation. Each one replaces something cheaper that has been failing you.
The roadmap may cover 90 to 180 days of business value. It distinguishes the first Civic Voice-led production outcome from the client rollout, adoption and benefit-realisation period that follows. It is an example of sequencing, not a universal delivery promise.
01
The Bridge
A single visual artefact that lets the CEO point and say "I want that," the revenue owner point at one block and say "that is what closes the deal that is stuck," and IT point at one block and say "I can build that."
Replaces the vendor deck.
02
The Strategic Roadmap
A 90 to 180-day technology value map across three horizons. Survives a board reading without us in the room.
Replaces the consulting slide that needs the author in the room to make sense.
03
The Initiative Spec
A build-ready specification a delivery team can pick up, estimate, and kick off within ten business days of signature.
Replaces the Statement of Work that nobody writes well enough to be useful.
04
The Outcome Hypothesis
The expected set of outcomes from the effort, in your language. Test it, and use it to correct course when necessary.
Replaces the discovery memo nobody finishes.
You need Technology that leverages your business. That is the tech we specialise in.
Leverage your revenue
Using the right technology will grow your revenue. Your competitors know it. Can you afford to not act on it?
Leverage your business compliance
Make compliance your advantage, not your headache
Leverage your investments
More output from every dollar invested in tech
Leverage untapped opportunities
Be ready to win the right opportunities
Every objective must produce an intelligible result in at least one of four currencies: revenue, risk, cost, or optionality. If it cannot, we decompose it. If it still cannot, we refuse the work.
It is not a vendor selection. We do not pre-select tools, platforms, or stacks before Day 1.
It is not a code review. IT enters on Day 2 to surface data sufficiency and silent prerequisites, not to defend or critique an existing codebase.
It is not a build sprint. The Assessment scopes the Initiative; the Initiative is the build.
The boundary is the feature. The Assessment is bounded so the answer is real.
There are three paths out of the Assessment, locked the evening before Day 5 against a written process artefact.
Path A - Initiative
We recommend the named Initiative, with its shipping window agreed from the evidence the Assessment surfaced. The Spec is in the package. We offer a kickoff date within two weeks.
Path B - Strategic Momentum Program
We recommend a retainer for the next 3 or 6 months when an Initiative is not the right shape but presence and reinforcement are.
Path C - Not ready
We tell you you are not ready to move at our speed and we tell you why, in the pains we surfaced together. The package is still yours. It is useful without us. About one in four engagements ends here. It is a successful outcome and it preserves the relationship.
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