TWO WEEKS · $3,500
Name the three things that have been “next quarter” for three quarters.
You don't need a minute to think about it. You already know what they are.
Two weeks. Everything in writing. Standalone engagement.
The hire you keep almost making.
The pricing change you've modeled twice and never sent.
The system you've been meaning to build since February — the one that would save you six hours a week, which is exactly why it's maddening that you haven't built it.
Here's the part nobody says out loud.
They're not sitting there because you don't know what to do. You know exactly what to do.
They're sitting there because every single one of them routes through you, and you are at capacity, and the thing that gets dropped is always the thing only you can decide.
That's not a strategy problem.
That's a you're-the-bottleneck problem.
And the awkward part: you're the only person who can't see it clearly — and the only person who can do anything about it.
So you start doing the math on the holidays.
Halloween, then Thanksgiving, then the back half of December. And suddenly it seems reasonable to move everything to January 1.
It isn't reasonable.
It's deferral with a calendar attached. I call it socially acceptable quitting.
Q4 doesn't have to be a dead quarter.
THE TWO-WEEK TRIAGE
It holds up a mirror and hands you a plan.
Two weeks. Full brain dump — everything stuck, everything deferred, everything living only in your head.
I map where the work actually stops. Not where you think it stops, which is almost never the same place.
Then I tell you the truth about it, in writing.
What you walk away with
A written diagnosis
What's genuinely blocking versus what's noise you've learned to live with.
Your three things, scoped and sized
Tested against real criteria instead of ambition.
A written definition of done for each
So “finished” is a document, not a feeling.
A 90-day plan
Sequence, owners, checkpoints. What has to be true by when.
My honest read
Whether you need more help or you just needed the plan. If it's the second one, I'll tell you. You keep the plan either way.
Not every goal qualifies. Each one has to pass all three.
01
Completable in 90 days
Not started — finished. “Hire a COO, launch the product, rebuild sales” is three quarters of work, not three things.
02
Yours to control
If it hinges on someone else's decision or an outside timeline, it isn't eligible.
03
Materially changes something
Revenue, capacity, risk, or your own time. Not “would be nice.”
Most consultants scope the engagement before they understand the business.
You get a proposal built on what you told them in a 45-minute call. And what you told them is the version you've already rationalized.
Two weeks inside it produces a different answer than two weeks guessing at it.
You also find out what working together is actually like before either of us commits to a quarter.
If the diagnosis says you don't need me, I'll say that.
✓ This is for you if
- Founder-led, roughly $750K–$3M
- Growing faster than the systems underneath you
- You're the bottleneck and you already know it
- You can name the three things in under ten seconds
- Funding the fix isn't the hurdle
✗ This isn't for you if
- You want a deck
- You want validation instead of a diagnosis
- You can't name three things that need to get done
- You want someone to advise rather than act
19 years in sales and business development.
7+ years embedded with 84+ operators, working on exactly one thing: the distance between what gets decided and what actually gets done.
$880,000+ in new revenue generated for those clients — because the work got finished.
- $3,500, paid in full to start
- Two weeks from kickoff
- Everything delivered in writing
- Standalone engagement. The plan is yours whether or not we work together after.
Most people who run the triage decide they want the plan executed, not just written.
That's the 90-Day Operating Sprint — I come in and run it, with your team, until the three things are done.
But that's a decision you make at the end of two weeks with a real diagnosis in front of you. Not at the beginning, on a sales call.