Map the work. Design the workforce. Leave with a finished plan.
8 to 12 weeks, for a fixed fee, built from your actual work.
Who is the Blueprint for?
PE-backed and mid-market leadership teams, from one department to a whole portfolio.
PE operating partners
The same workflow bloat repeats across holdings: fix it once, roll it across the portfolio.
Portfolio and mid-market CEOs
Under pressure to show AI progress with an explainable number behind it, in diligence, the first hundred days, or a stalled hold.
CFOs
On the hook for EBITDA, and often own HR on a thin budget. They need the answer without hiring a team to find it.
CHROs with a mandate
The ones with the autonomy and budget who already know talent-first hasn't worked.
CIOs
Starts from your HR system export: no integration project. Per-tenant isolation and role-based access. We delete your data on request.
HR operations leads
What your team gives us: your job descriptions and HRIS data, interviews with your leaders and a sample of employees, and a short capability survey.
How does it run?
The Blueprint runs in two phases — current-state mapping, then future-state design. One engagement, one fee.
The Blueprint · fixed fee · 8 to 12 weeks
Current-state mapping
6 to 8 weeks
A map of how the work really gets done, role by role, with a call on every task and the evidence behind it.
What we need from you: Your job descriptions and HRIS data, interviews with your leaders and a sample of employees, and a short capability survey.
Future-state design
2 to 4 weeks
The new org model and SG&A scenarios, including where roles grow, shrink or change, and which tools fit which work. An explainable plan you can act on.
What we need from you: Your growth targets and one org design workshop with your leadership team.
After the Blueprint
WorkGraph Activation
After the Blueprint. 8–16 weeks.
The Blueprint, put to work. Same team, same IP. The implementation engagement that follows the Blueprint: training, manager enablement, change management, vendor execution and adoption tracking.
WorkGraph Compass
Annual subscription.
AI keeps moving. Your map keeps up. An annual subscription: we re-score the stored work map as AI advances, refresh what changed, and alert on drift.
Redesign Events
When a drift alert or a big event calls for it.
When something crosses the line, we redesign that part — fast. Scoped redesigns triggered by drift alerts or big events, such as M&A or a major new AI capability.
What do you hold at the end?
A work map, the call on every task, future-state scenarios, and a roadmap.
The workflow map, printed
Before and after, by role
The procedure, step by step
Acme Industrial Services · Leadership Action Plan
Sequenced, with the evidence behind each call
- 1Automate route-sheet assemblyAutomateRoles: Dispatch CoordinatorSG&A line: Field operationsWho builds: Spec for your scheduling vendor✓ Reviewed by a human
- 2Redesign the escalation pathRedesignRoles: Operations ManagerSG&A line: Ops managementWho builds: Internal process owner✓ Reviewed by a human
- 3Preserve on-site diagnosisPreserveRoles: Field Service TechnicianSG&A line: Field operationsWho builds: No build; protect the time✓ Reviewed by a human
The Leadership Action Plan
Illustrative demo
Why not a consulting deck, an AI tool, or a task force?
Each one skips the work itself. We start there, connected across roles.
Big consultancy AI assessment
Starts with talent or technology. You get a deck with tool recommendations and a proposed org chart, and the evidence is limited to interview quotes.
Skills platforms
Start from job descriptions and generic occupational databases. You get skills libraries and learning paths that ask employees to self-teach and managers to police it.
Doing it internally
Interviews and data collection done by hand. The plan fits your company, but months go into the most error-prone part of the work.
A fixed fee, scoped to you, stated up front.
Priced against a defined scope: the departments, the headcount, and how many people we interview. No hourly billing, and no resale margin on anything we recommend. Anything that would follow the Blueprint is named before you sign.
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By design, not by default.