After Instrumented Discovery
Ten days to remove the constraint you just paid £300 to find
Instrumented Discovery tells you what is worth doing. The ten days do it — on your live work, with your people in the room, measured against your own numbers.
First, the eight hours
Three ways to run it
Which one fits depends on how much of your machine is already written down. Most organisations are further along than they think.
From £300
From documents and systems
We work from what your tools already know. SharePoint, Confluence, a wiki, ServiceNow, Jira, code repositories — extracts or live read access. The cheapest route and often the most accurate.
From £900
With a minimal team
Where the process lives in people rather than tools. A series of conversations with the people who actually do the work, not the people who describe it in steering meetings. Our principals lead them, with AI extending the reach, so eight hours can hear the breadth of your team.
£5,000
Full team, large function
A wide or complex function where the queue crosses several groups and nobody holds the whole picture. More ground to cover, more people to hear, the same eight working hours of our attention.
- The eight hours need not fall in one day. Split them across your diaries.
- If system access proves impossible we pause, and you are not charged for the wait.
- The output is yours regardless of what you do next.
Then the ten days
How the days run
Every organisation’s constraint is different. This is the shape, not a script — and Instrumented Discovery has already done the first part of it.
- 01–02
Confirm and quantify
We take the model from Instrumented Discovery and test it against reality. What we assumed from outside gets corrected by the people inside.
- 03–05
Implement against the constraint
A key AI capability wired into the real workflow, with your people in the room rather than watching a demo.
- 06–08
Run it on live work
Real artefacts through the new plumbing, measured against the old numbers — including the ones that refuse to flatter.
- 09–10
Demonstrate and hand over
The before-and-after in front of whoever owns the decision, the working system in your hands, and the map of where the constraint moves next.
The treatment
A stalled project, restored to good order
The most straightforward use of the ten days. What a stuck project is missing is usually derivable from what already exists — so it is cheap to close and easy to price. The discovery names the arrears; the ten days close them:
- The unfinished build — the feature half-done, the integration that never landed.
- The hygiene — risk registers, decision logs, runbooks and release notes brought back to true.
- The verification — the tests never written, the acceptance never proven.
- The governance — the change pack and the audit trail, complete.
The project ends back on its own timeline, papers in order. Then we leave — and a better idea of what AI can do stays with your own technical and project procurement staff. Sometimes the discovery’s honest answer is that a stopped project should stay stopped; that answer still costs £300.
Why we price it this way
We want the second engagement, not the biggest first one
A firm that bills by the hour has to make the first job as large as it can. We do not, because the constraint always moves.
Remove the worst queue and the pressure relocates — to another project, or to another function: the architects, then the approvals, then somewhere you have not looked. That is the Constraint Migration, and it is why there is always a next ten days worth doing.
So the sensible commercial strategy for us is the one that also happens to be honest: keep your risk small, deliver something measurable quickly, and earn the call back. We would rather run four engagements with you across two years than one that ends in a disagreement about value.
That is also why your entry costs £300 rather than £15,000. The work behind it is done with AI. Anyone telling you to adopt it while charging you 2019 rates has not adopted it themselves, and you should ask them why.
Start with the eight hours
It costs from £300, it is bounded, and it might tell you to do nothing. Book it and find out which.