The Breakpoint Diagnostic

Three weeks to find what's actually breaking.

Under $30M, everything is connected. The sales problem is an operations problem is a systems problem, and the executive who only reads one gauge will fix the wrong thing. This is a whole-business diagnostic, done where the work happens, that ends with a plan your team can execute.

When companies call

Nobody books a diagnostic because things are fine. These are the five calls I get:

We won it and we can't onboard it

The biggest customer in company history signed, and now every week of onboarding delay burns the relationship you just spent a year winning.

We lost one we shouldn't have

A service failure walked a customer out the door, and nobody can agree on whose fault it was. That's the tell: it happened in a seam.

We're buying a system we don't know how to buy

A WMS decision is on the table. Vendors are pitching. Nobody in the building has bought one before, and the wrong call lives with you for a decade.

We just took investment

New capital comes with a growth plan the current operation was never built to deliver. Someone has to say what breaks first.

The owner is the operating system

Every decision routes through one person, and that person is out of hours. Growth stalls not for lack of demand, but lack of bandwidth.

Three weeks, on your floor

Week 01Walk the seams

See the business the way it actually runs

Not a data request and a conference room. I work the floor, ride the handoffs, and talk to the people who live in them.

  • Floor time across shifts, including the ones leadership doesn't usually see
  • Interviews across sales, operations, systems, and finance, separately, then together
  • Commercial pipeline mapped against real onboarding and fulfillment capacity
  • Systems inventory: what you own, what you use, what you fight
Week 02Mark the breakpoint

Separate the constraint from the noise

Every company under strain shows twenty symptoms. One or two constraints drive most of them. Week two traces the failures across the handoffs until the pattern shows itself, then puts a dollar figure on it.

  • Failure tracing: where work stalls, who inherits it, what it costs
  • The breakpoint quantified: margin, churn risk, or capacity, in numbers your CFO accepts
  • Findings pressure-tested with your team before anything goes in writing
Week 03Decide the fix

A 90-day plan, then a decision

Week three ends in a working session with your leadership team, not a document dump. You leave with a map, a plan, and a choice.

  • Leadership readout: the breakpoint, the evidence, the plan, argued live
  • 90-day fix plan sequenced by impact, with owners and checkpoints
  • The decision point: your team runs the plan, or I stay on to see it through

What you walk away with

01

The Breakpoint Map

Your business drawn as it actually operates: the handoffs, the seams, and the one or two places it's tearing, with the evidence.

02

The cost of the constraint

What the breakpoint is costing you per month in margin, churn risk, or trapped capacity. The number that makes the fix a business decision.

03

The 90-day fix plan

Sequenced, owned, and realistic for the team you have. Not a transformation roadmap. A plan for the next 90 days.

Then, two paths

Take the plan and run

The plan is built for your team to execute without me. Some companies do exactly that, and that's a good outcome. No pressure, no strings.

Straight answers

What does it cost?

Fixed fee, quoted on the first call once I understand your size and site count. No hourly meter, no scope creep, and the full fee credits toward a fractional engagement if you choose one.

Who actually shows up?

Me. There is no junior staff, no analyst pool, no leverage model. The person you meet on the first call is the person on your dock.

Will this disrupt my operation?

No. I've run operations. I know the difference between observing a shift and getting in its way. Most of week one, your people won't change a thing they're doing.

What if the problem turns out to be something you can't fix?

Then the map says so, and it says who can. I'd rather hand you a straight answer and a referral than stretch an engagement. This practice runs on referrals from people I told the truth.

Start with a breakpoint call

Thirty minutes. Bring the symptom that's costing you sleep. I'll tell you honestly whether a diagnostic is worth your money, or whether the answer is simpler than that.

Book the call