the litmus
Where are you, honestly?
Eight statements about how an organization holds its product truth. Slide each one to where you actually are — not where the deck says you are. The read updates as you move: your stage, the drag in expert-hours, and what three years of standing still costs.
Built to be done out loud, together. Under every statement is the question to ask the room. Nothing you slide leaves this device.
how this is counted, in the open: each statement carries an estimate of the expert-hours it drags in a year when it's fully "not us" — roughly 70 to 160, heavier where the fix touches more of the org. Your slide scales that down: a statement's drag is its hours × how far you still are from "that's us". Summed, that's this year's lost hours, priced at the loaded rate you set above (default $85/h — change it to theirs). Untended, the same gaps cost about 25% more each year as stale claims and content pile up, so year two and three compound. Every figure is an assumption you can argue — move the rate, dispute the hours; the shape survives. Live read needs JavaScript; the statements don't.
Low on 01, 02, or 06 — the conversation is the map. Low on 03 or 04 — the model. Low on 05, 07, or 08 — the network. Low everywhere — good news: the path is short and it's ordered.
Want the longer, question-by-question version — sixteen questions across marketing, sales, operations, and product operations? That's the discovery, the full sit-down this litmus opens.