The 30-Day Delivery-Margin Diagnostic. Operionis

What will you get?

The Leak Ledger: the quantified annual cost of your top three constraints, and the Fix Sequence that orders the repair, an owner and a first step per item. A number the board accepts, not a report for the shelf.

How will you know it’s working?

The Two-Number Read lands by day 5: cycle time versus touch time on your core unit of work. You see the gap in the first week, not in the final meeting.

How long?

Thirty days, bounded. Restitution session with the decision-makers at the end. Check-in call thirty days after.

What’s expected of you?

Eight hours of your team’s time, total. It’s in the contract. Beyond that I need access, not effort: data by day 3, your sponsor weekly, the floor as scheduled. I watch; your people keep working.

The situation

You sense something is off: margins eroding, deadlines slipping, teams firefighting, reports that don’t add up. You don’t need a six-month transformation program. You need someone who has run operations at scale to look at yours, put a number on what’s broken, and tell you the truth.

The stack (what the thirty days contain)

The Two-Number Read.

Cycle time versus touch time on your core unit of work, delivered by day 5. The gap between the two is where your margin goes.

The Leak Ledger.

The quantified annual cost of your top three constraints. This is the number the board acts on.

The Floor Pass.

Direct observation where the work happens. No workshops, no town halls, no team disruption.

The Fixed Client Time Budget.

Eight hours of your staff’s time, total, contractual. Your team keeps running the business while I work.

The Fix Sequence.

A prioritised roadmap: an owner and a first step per item. Built to be executed, with or without me.

Restitution session, plus a check-in call thirty days later.

I say it to your face, then I check it stuck.

The guarantee, and its conditions

If the diagnostic does not identify addressable annual losses of at least three times its fee, the second 50% is not invoiced.

Three conditions, written into the contract: data access by day 3, your sponsor available weekly, floor access as scheduled. Miss them and the guarantee is void.

Addressable means constraints you can act on: process, incentives, governance. Not market weather. The definition goes in the contract, and every Leak Ledger number is built from your own data, arithmetic shown.

I guarantee the process and the find. I never guarantee business outcomes: EBITDA, revenue, retention. No outside advisor can.

Who it’s for

A CEO or shareholder who senses something is off but can’t pin it down
A PE fund or family office onboarding a target, before or after closing
A post-fast-growth company whose organisation didn’t keep up

What does doing nothing cost?

That is the first deliverable. The Leak Ledger puts an annual cost on each constraint, and a constraint doesn’t pause while you decide. The diagnostic is from €9,800; the guarantee threshold is three times that. If your leaks are smaller than the threshold, you pay half and sleep well.

Engagement: from €9,800

Scope confirmed before signature. 50% on signature, 50% on delivery, subject to the guarantee. No commitment to anything afterwards: if the diagnostic is all you need, we shake hands and you keep the roadmap.

What happens after

At the restitution, if the Fix Sequence justifies it, I propose the Implementation Sprint: the first one or two fixes, delivered. The diagnostic stands alone; you can take the roadmap and run it with your own team and never see me again.

You’re probably thinking...

Most do. That’s why the deliverable here is a number and a sequence, not a document. The Leak Ledger gives your board the annual cost of the top three constraints; the Fix Sequence gives each one an owner and a first step. If you shelve that, it will at least be a precise regret.

It’s too short to understand everything. It’s enough to find the three constraints that cost the most, because I’m not interviewing my way to consensus. I stand where the work happens and read the two numbers.

That’s your call. I can work framed as a routine operations review, or openly. Most clients choose discretion, and the Floor Pass is built for it: observation, no workshops, no town halls.

Then I tell you that in writing, and under the guarantee the second 50% is never invoiced. A clean diagnostic is a valid outcome. I don’t invent problems to sell the next engagement.

Two mandates at a time. That’s the whole roster. If a slot is open, I can usually start within two weeks; if not, I tell you and we book a start date.

You’re right that I won’t flood you with juniors. You get one senior operator who has held the P&L on a multi-country portfolio and stood on the floor of businesses like yours. The diagnostic doesn’t need an army; it needs someone who knows where to stand. The enforcement that follows runs through your people, with your authority. That’s why it holds after I leave.

French and English. On-site in France and Central Europe, remote anywhere.

The 30-Day Delivery‑Margin Diagnostic