The recommended first step

Find where margin risk
is hiding.

The Decision Integrity Diagnostic is a focused executive assessment to uncover hidden margin risk, decision gaps, and the highest-value opportunities.

What you receive

Clarity. Priorities.
A plan.

Six concrete outputs your CFO, Controller, and Operations leaders can use to decide what to address next.

01

Decision Context Map

Visualizes where operational context is lost before numbers become decisions.

02

Integrity Signal Register

Catalogs the signals, rules, and exceptions shaping financial interpretation.

03

Margin Exposure Matrix

Ranks where margin distortion exists, with quantified impact where evidence supports it and likely root causes.

04

Root Cause Narrative

Explains why the distortion happens and how it affects reporting, pricing, and capacity decisions.

05

Opportunity & Priority Matrix

Identifies the highest-value fixes, fastest wins, and most urgent control gaps.

06

90-Day Implementation Blueprint

Sets out a sequenced plan to close integrity gaps and build early decision confidence.

Included: executive readout, evidence-backed findings, and a prioritized action plan.
A focused engagement

From discovery to executive readout.

An indicative sequence, refined around the agreed decision context and available evidence.

Week 01

Executive briefing & discovery

Agree the decision context, business commitments, system boundaries, and available evidence.

Week 02

Decision integrity assessment

Trace the selected operational-to-financial flow and identify integrity signals and evidence gaps.

Week 03

Root cause & exposure analysis

Investigate the priority breaks, assess the impact, and identify the highest-value corrections.

Week 03–04

Executive roadmap & priorities

Present evidence-backed findings, agree priorities, and deliver the implementation blueprint.

A good fit

For leaders who need confidence beyond reporting accuracy.

The diagnostic is most useful where operations, payroll, and finance each hold part of the explanation behind an important decision.

  • Reports reconcile, but the meaning behind labor cost or margin remains difficult to explain.
  • Manual adjustments or missing relationships make the evidence hard to follow.
  • Leadership needs a clear view of the most urgent integrity gaps before investing in implementation.
  • The relevant business owners and source evidence can be made available for assessment.
After the diagnostic

A controlled path to implementation.

01 / DISCOVER

Decision Integrity Diagnostic

3–4 weeks

Uncover hidden margin risk, establish the evidence, and agree the priorities.

02 / IMPLEMENT

Sprint Implementation

60–90 days

Build the integrity signals and controls needed to address the priority gaps.

03 / STRENGTHEN

Ongoing Partnership

12+ months

Monitor trust, refine the model, and support continuous improvement over time.

Start with a Diagnostic Fit Check.

Discuss one decision context and whether a diagnostic is the right next step.

Request a Diagnostic Fit Check