Individual engagements
Individual work for technical people whose analysis is correct and whose recommendations are not getting run.
The premise
Training in technical organizations typically consists of a workshop, a set of exercises, and a template. It produces a measurable improvement for about three weeks, after which behavior returns to baseline. The reason is not that the content was wrong. It is that the exercises were not the participant’s own work, and therefore carried none of the constraints that actually shape what gets produced.
The constraint shaping your next analysis is not a gap in your understanding of decomposition. It is that the freeze is in nine days, that the person who can commit has not replied, that two of the three alternatives are politically unavailable, and that the team whose rule you propose to replace sits two desks away. No exercise reproduces that.
So the work happens on live briefs, under their real constraints, on their real deadlines. That is slower and less comfortable than a workshop, and it is the only version that survives contact with the next request.
Engagements
A live brief, turned into a choice.
From $750
One 90-minute session plus a written rebuild
Most requested
The habit, not the artifact.
From $6,000
Six sessions across twelve weeks, plus async review
For the staff-plus case that has to be made in writing.
From $3,500
Four sessions across eight weeks
Prices are starting points and scale with scope, seniority, and turnaround. Organizational sponsorship is common and the invoicing accommodates it.
Process
You bring one piece of work that changed nothing. We establish which of the three parts was missing, and whether I am the right person for it. A meaningful fraction of these calls end with me saying the problem is not one I solve, which is a better outcome for both of us than an engagement that was never going to work.
You send three to five recent briefs, studies, or write-ups. I read them against the same tests used throughout this site and come back with a specific failure profile. Almost everyone is weak in one of the three parts rather than generally deficient, and naming which one is most of the work.
Each session takes a request you are actually working on. We write the choice sentence, find the claims that could kill your candidate, name the flip point, and cut the work that could not have changed the ranking. You do the work. I do the interrogation.
A recommendation that survives review has to survive its author defending it. We work the objections you expect and the ones you have not thought of, including the adjacent team that will route around your rule if it works as designed.
Before you pay anyone
Everything taught in coaching is documented on this site at no cost. Read the method, run the diagnostic, and write one choice sentence before your next piece of work starts. See whether it changes what gets run afterward. If it does not, coaching will not either, and you will have spent an afternoon rather than a budget.
Next step
I reply to every serious inquiry within two business days.