Know your first move before you spend a dollar.
Three weeks, one priority area, and a 90-day plan you can defend to the board. A fixed-scope discovery sprint that turns leadership goals and today's technology estate into a clear first move. Independent, evidence-based, fixed fee.
- Fixed fee, agreed at scoping
- Weeks, not months
- No obligation to continue
Where should we start?
No defined technology strategy yet, and you need a confident first move.
Leaders weighing AI, automation or a technology stack review.
One priority initiative, ready to mobilise.
Most technology investments are decided before anyone has established what the business actually needs.
Buying before deciding
A platform chosen on a demo and a pitch, with the business case assembled afterwards to justify it.
A leadership team that hasn't agreed the problem
Priorities that differ by stakeholder, constraints nobody has surfaced, and no one who clearly owns the decision.
Findings without a decision
Assessments that end in a report and no decision. The question of what to do next stays open, and the investment stalls with it.
What you leave with.
Executive findings you can act on
The findings written up for the board: what we found, what it means, and what to do first.
Business and technology maturity profile
Where you sit today across process, data, technology and skills.
AI and automation opportunity map
Candidate AI and automation opportunities, mapped to the processes they touch.
Quick wins surfaced early
Changes you can make before the sprint ends, raised as we find them.
A 90-day action plan
What happens first, in what order, and who owns it.
Recommended engagement pathway
Which pathway fits after the sprint and why, whoever ends up delivering it.
Three weeks, on a fixed timetable.
A focused scoping sprint run with your leadership team, ending in a decision-ready plan.
Indicative timings, confirmed at scoping. The decision points are yours.
- Week 1
Discover and diagnose
Kickoff, interviews with the sponsor and four to six people, and a document review. You get a baseline of goals, systems and constraints, and the maturity profile.
- Week 2
Options and priorities
Opportunities identified and scored by value and effort, with quick wins raised as we find them. Decision point: you confirm the priorities.
- Week 3
Select and mobilise
The first actions agreed and owners named. The 90-day plan and the recommended pathway are written up. Decision point: you agree the first actions.
Six stages, in a fixed order.
Discovery before design, decision before build. Scope for this sprint: one priority area.
- 1DiscoverGoals and current state
- 2DiagnoseMaturity and gaps
- 3OptionsRoutes worth considering
- 4PrioritiesValue, cost and effort
- 5SelectA clear first move
- 6Mobilise90-day plan and pathway
Advice that stays independent, from the people who do the work.
Independent and vendor-neutral
We do not sell the platform. The recommendation is tested against the evidence, not a product list, and it stays independent whoever ends up delivering it.
Senior partners do the work
The people in the interviews are the people who write the findings. No leveraged team, and no handover between the pitch and the work.
One accountable team, from decide to run
When the evidence says build it or run it, Deployment and Managed Services take over with the same people. Nothing is lost between the decision and the delivery.
What people ask about Start.
Three weeks, on a fixed timetable agreed at scoping. Interviews happen in week one, you confirm the priorities in week two, and you agree the first actions in week three.
A sponsor who can decide, four to six people for interviews, one coordinator for scheduling, and access to your existing strategy, architecture and process documents. Interview slots need to fall inside the three weeks.
An engagement lead and a lead consultant, with specialist input where a finding needs it. Senior people throughout, not a leveraged team.
Start is assessment and planning, not build or implementation. The findings rest on the interviews held and the documents provided. Anything beyond the 90-day plan runs as a separate pathway.
You own the plan and can run it yourself. If you want help, the recommended pathway says which kind, delivered by Kode-1 or a specialist partner. There is no obligation either way.
Three weeks to a first move you can defend.
A fixed fee, agreed at scoping and sized to the decision in front of you. A fixed timetable, and no obligation to continue. The scoping conversation is free and takes 45 minutes.
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