Working session

The Constraint Sprint

Four sessions over two weeks with you and the people who actually run your business, to name the thing it is stuck on and decide what to do about it. Run remotely, wherever you are. You leave with a written analysis and a ninety day plan.

The playbook is the free version and it is genuinely enough for some people. This is for the ones who started it, got to the second diagnostic, and found that answering honestly about your own company is harder alone than it looks on paper.

How the two weeks run

Four sessions of about two hours, twice a week. The gaps are not padding. Asked in a room, questions like where your last ten clients came from get answered from memory, which is the flattering version. The work between sessions is where the real answers come from.

Session one
Map the work as it actually happens
Not the process diagram. The real one, including the workarounds nobody puts in writing. Your team does the talking and I ask the awkward questions.
Before the next one: Each leader logs every decision that came to them, as it happens, for a week.
Session two
Find what only you can do
We go through that log together and sort it into context, authority and skill. Having the real week in front of us rather than a remembered one is the whole point of the gap.
Before the next one: Pull the actual source of your last ten clients from the CRM, not from memory.
Session three
Re-sort the work
What genuinely needs a person, what needs a person who is trained, and what software can now carry. Most teams have not revisited that third bucket since 2023.
Before the next one: Pick one candidate process and gather whatever data it currently depends on.
Session four
Decide the first ninety days
One constraint, one process, one source of work that is not referral. Sequenced, with owners, and small enough to actually happen.

What you leave with

A written constraint analysis, the honest version rather than the flattering one
Your work re-sorted into what needs you, what needs training, and what software can carry
A ninety day plan with owners and an order, not a backlog
The one thing I would do first if it were my company, and why

Price

€7,500

Fixed, for all four sessions and the written analysis afterwards. Run over video, so your timezone matters more than your address and there is no travel to pay for. If you decide after the first session that this is not going to be useful, we stop and you pay nothing.

Who this is not for

Saying yes to everyone is how consulting gets its reputation. Four cases where I would tell you not to book.

Anyone who wants a vendor evaluation. I will not tell you which tool to buy
Companies under about ten people, where the founder is meant to be the bottleneck
Teams whose leadership will not clear four two-hour blocks, or will attend with a laptop open on something else
Anyone who needs the answer to be that nothing has to change

Tell me what you are stuck on

A paragraph is enough. I will reply with whether I think a sprint is the right thing, and I will say so plainly when it is not. There is no call before the call.