Leverage Discovery — a paid 90-minute working session

Discovery is a paid ninety-minute working session. We look at both the business side and your actual workflow, and by the end we identify one leverage area worth acting on and the right way to act on it — or we see there isn’t enough here, or we see that a narrower first pass is needed.

The session is paid up front because it is real work, not a sales conversation. You are buying a diagnosis, a plan, and a written summary — not an introduction. A Discovery with no leverage area found is a diagnosis too. That is why the guarantee exists.

What Discovery is for

Find the business leverage

What is painful, slow, expensive, stuck, or fragile — and where, inside that, a change would actually matter.

Find the workflow leverage

Where in the way you actually work today there is leverage hiding — context held in the head, repeated re-deciding, manual triage, fragmented tools, supervision gaps.

Identify one area worth acting on

Not a list. One. The one where a real change would create the most meaningful movement, and where the conditions for it to stick are actually present.

Decide the right next step

Whether that next step is a Workflow Upgrade, a Hybrid, a System Build, a narrower second pass, or nothing at all. Scope follows leverage, not the other way around.

What happens in the ninety minutes

The shape of the session is stable. I want you to know it before you arrive.

0–10 min Framing. What we’re looking for, the three possible conclusions, how we’ll use the time.
10–35 min The business side. What is painful, slow, expensive, stuck; what matters; what you’d want more of; and what you’ve already tried.
35–65 min The workflow walkthrough. One real example of the part of your work we’re looking at, from the moment it begins. We look at how it actually happens today — not how it’s supposed to.
65–80 min Synthesis. I reflect back what I think I’m seeing and we agree on the leverage area — or we agree we don’t yet.
80–90 min The money and decision conversation. What the right next step is. What it would cost. Whether it makes sense.

Within the next working day, you also receive a short written summary of what we found and what I recommend. That is included in the fee.

How Discovery ends

There are three honest outcomes. I want all three to feel like normal outcomes before we begin, because all three are.

We identify one leverage area worth acting on and the right next step. I send a short proposal within twenty-four hours. You decide.

We decide there isn’t enough here to justify the work. You leave with the written summary and a clearer read on your own situation.

We decide a narrower first pass is needed before anything else can be scoped. We agree on what that pass is and what it costs, or we don’t.

Fee and guarantee

$1,500 — the session, plus the written summary within one business day.

If by the end of the session no meaningful leverage area and right next step have emerged, I continue at no cost until they do, or refund the fee. This is the only guarantee the practice makes, and it is the right one here.

What to bring

One real piece of work. A specific workflow, a specific decision, a specific bottleneck. Not a list of concerns and not a general question about AI.

The more specific, the more the session is worth. Bring the thing you would actually like to move.

Request a Leverage Discovery.

Fill in the form below. Within one business day I’ll reply with available times that fit your preferred window.

Your name

Email

In one sentence, what part of your work do you want to look at first?

Specific beats general. “Our proposal flow — two people reworking every draft for a day” is more useful than “AI for the business.”

Preferred window (rough)

Times are Eastern. I schedule one Discovery per working day.

Just to have this in writing: Discovery is $1,500, paid before the session. If no meaningful leverage area emerges, I continue at no cost until one does, or refund the fee. Any of the three possible conclusions is a valid outcome.

I understand Discovery is a paid working session, not a sales call, and that we may conclude it isn’t a fit. I’m choosing it on that basis.

Prototype — no submission is sent.

Received.

Thank you. I’ll reply within one business day with two or three time options that fit the window you gave, along with an invoice for the Discovery fee.

If anything about the above no longer matches what you want, simply reply to that email — it is genuinely fine to change your mind at this stage, and I would rather know now than later.

— The practitioner