ADVISORY SERVICES
Advisory Services
One standing relationship, from a first conversation to a business that runs on a cadence instead of on you.
How it starts
The way in is deliberately plain. A thirty-minute conversation, no prep. If the fit is right on both sides, we set a working session: a few hours at the table on a live problem in your business. Real work, no charge. You leave with something you can use either way. I leave knowing whether I can help.
If we both want more, the next piece is the Owner-Dependence Diagnostic. It reads how much the business actually leans on you, including the places that dependence hides, and hands back an ordered plan for what to change. Some owners take the plan and run it themselves. Others put it toward the engagement and we do the work together.
No assessment quiz, no scoring tool, no funnel. The right shape sorts itself out in the room.
The engagement
A full engagement runs twelve months. It is one relationship at a steady cadence. Some clients continue into a second or third year. When that happens, it is because there is a clear next stage of work, not because anything renews on its own.
What follows is the range of what the engagement can hold, not a fixed architecture. The work is brought in as the moment calls for it, and the actual shape of your engagement is set after the working session and the diagnostic, once we can both see what the business needs.
Time with you on how you lead. Standing sessions, one to four per month, on the decisions that are too big or too close to weigh alone, and on the capacities the next stage of the business is asking you to build.
Time with your key people. Individual sessions with your second-in-command, or with others who carry real weight in the business. Optional, and flexible. Some engagements call for none of it, some call for a steady thread of it.
Time with your team on how it runs. Full team days, facilitated weekly meetings, working sessions built for whatever the team is facing. The work is on the team as a unit: how decisions actually get made, what gets said and what gets avoided, what the team can hold together under pressure.
The structure that holds it all. Where the business needs an operating system, we install one on the Ninety.io platform: vision, organizational structure, scorecards, quarterly priorities, and the meeting rhythm that institutionalizes them. Where one already exists, the work makes it carry more weight.
Included throughout: custom dashboards for you and for the team, a development plan for the leader, the team, and the business, and direct access for the length of the engagement.
One practitioner holds all of it. That is what makes the integration possible.
Where this work is now
Watchfire is engaging its founding cohort. The first engagements run at a defined shape and rate while the case base accumulates and the methodology gets codified. Owners who carry the conversation forward receive the pricing brief and the trajectory in writing, in terms a CFO or a board can evaluate. Price lives in the room, not on the page.
Which shape is right
A company that has never run on an operating system needs different work than one that has and still feels the gap. An owner working through a transition needs different work than a senior team that has been together for years and feels stuck. Those differences are real, and they get sorted in a real conversation, not by a package picker.
Thirty minutes. No prep required.