Growth Readiness Audit

A structured diagnostic that tells you exactly where your business will break under growth - before you find out the hard way, mid-hiring-spree or mid-client-onboarding.

EngagementFixed-scope auditTimeline2 weeksFrameworkScaling Diagnostic + McKinsey 7SAI LayerIncluded

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Sound familiar?

The pattern we see over and over

You've grown headcount in the last 12 months but productivity per person has quietly dropped.

Leadership makes hiring and expansion decisions on gut feel, not on where the real bottlenecks sit.

Every department swears its own process works fine - but handoffs between them keep failing.

You suspect something will break at your next growth milestone, but no one can tell you what or when.

The framework

Scaling Diagnostic Framework + McKinsey 7S

We assess your business across the seven dimensions that determine whether an operating model scales - strategy, structure, systems, staff, skills, style, and shared values.

Layered on top is a growth-specific scaling diagnostic that flags exactly which dimension will fail first at your next stage of headcount or revenue, so you're not guessing at where to focus first.

The result is a scored, ranked view of risk - not a vague set of impressions - so leadership can prioritise fixes by what will actually break first, not by whoever is complaining loudest that week.

How it runs

Discovery interviews

Structured sessions with leadership and key department heads to map how work actually happens today.

7S diagnostic scoring

Each of the seven dimensions is scored against your growth targets to identify where the model is under strain.

Bottleneck mapping

We trace the specific processes, roles, and decisions most likely to break at your next 20-50 headcount milestone.

Readiness report and roadmap

A prioritised readiness report with a clear sequence of fixes, ranked by risk and effort.

What you get

✓Full 7S growth-readiness scorecard

✓Ranked list of operational bottlenecks by risk

✓Headcount and structure stress-test for your next stage

✓Prioritised 90-day remediation roadmap

✓Executive readout with leadership team

✓AI-assisted process mapping included

What affects the cost?

Every engagement is scoped to your situation - not a fixed menu price. We quote after a 30-minute discovery call, never before. Three things shape the investment:

Number of departments

More functional areas mean more discovery interviews and more process threads to trace.

Headcount and structure

Larger teams and more layers of management add complexity to the 7S scoring.

Data and systems access

How much of your operational data already exists in usable form affects diagnostic speed.

The discovery call is free and comes with no obligation. We will tell you on the call whether this engagement is right for your situation - and give you a fixed quote before any work begins.

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Frequently asked questions

We use a named, repeatable diagnostic framework rather than an open-ended engagement, so you get a scored, defensible readiness report in two weeks, not a vague set of impressions.

We work primarily through structured interviews and existing reporting - deeper systems access speeds up the diagnostic but is not required to start.

Most clients move straight into capacity planning or a standard operating playbook, using the audit's roadmap to prioritise which gaps to close first.