You suspect something is structurally broken in how your team delivers. You might be right. I embed with your team for two days, find out what's working, what isn't, and leave you with a setup your team can follow from Monday morning.
Book a free 30 min callThings carry over week after week. Nobody is sure what's actually done. The board says "in progress" for items that haven't moved in three weeks. Your daily meeting takes 45 minutes and nothing comes out of it.
Priorities shift constantly. The team is busy, but the thing that matters most keeps getting bumped. Nobody knows who decides what gets worked on next, or the answer is "it depends" or "whoever's loudest."
You can't answer "when will this be done?" Not because your team is slow. Because there's no system that makes progress visible. So you sit in meetings narrating status instead of making decisions.
Not a workshop with sticky notes. Not a methodology presentation. I sit with your team, watch how things work, and build the fix with you.
The kickoff doesn't give you a process manual. It gives you a team that knows what it's doing next and can see what's stuck without asking.
Not the Jira graveyard with 47 columns and tickets from 2023. A board the team actually uses, where you can see what's in progress, what's stuck, and what's next in 10 seconds.
When progress is visible on a board, you stop narrating status in meetings. The daily check-in becomes a place for decisions, not updates. At Factry, a one-hour daily meeting went down to 15 minutes.
Written, specific, covering the next four weeks. No ambiguity about what comes first. No "it depends." The kind of clarity where nobody needs to ask "what should I work on?" on Monday morning.
What's working. What's broken. What to fix first. No sugar-coating. Plus a curated list of resources tailored to your specific problems, so your team keeps improving after I leave.
Half the confusion in product teams comes from unclear decision rights. After the kickoff, everyone knows who sets priorities, who decides scope, and what happens when things conflict.
Bringing someone external in for two days tells your team that leadership sees the problem and is taking it seriously. People start working differently before any process changes. That signal matters more than most founders realize.
Some context on that number. A developer in Belgium costs roughly €400-500/day. A team of five losing one week to confusion, unclear priorities, or rework costs around €10,000 in burned salary. That happens every month in most teams I work with. The kickoff costs less than one bad month.
Your team is motivated and skilled, but there's no clear way of working. Everything runs through you. You're the process, the priority list, and the tie-breaker. Two days to give the team a system that doesn't depend on you being in every conversation.
It worked when you were five people. Now you're twelve and the cracks are showing. Meetings got longer. The board got messy. Decisions take longer. You don't need to start from scratch. You need someone to see what broke and fix it.
If you're wondering whether your problem is how you deliver or what you're building, that's a fair question. Book the call. It's free, it takes 30 minutes, and I'll tell you honestly whether a kickoff will help or whether you need something else entirely.
You can. And you should. But a retro surfaces what the team already knows. The kickoff surfaces what nobody sees because they're too close. I don't work here. I have no loyalty to anyone's pet project and no reason to be diplomatic about what's broken. That outside perspective is what you're paying for.
Honestly? A lot of it, yes. A motivated CTO with two free weekends can learn the fundamentals of flow-based delivery. I'll even give you a list of what to watch. But the knowledge isn't the bottleneck. The bottleneck is that nobody on your team has the time, the mandate, and the outside perspective to do it all at once. You're too close. Your dev lead has opinions tangled up with ego. Your PM is firefighting. I walk in with no stake in any existing decision.
That's expected. I don't take your tracker's data at face value. I build a model of how work actually flows before I touch anything. The mess isn't a blocker. It's where I start.
You run with it. The whole point is that the setup works without me. Four weeks later, we check in to see what stuck, what didn't, and what needs adjusting. If after that check-in you realize you need deeper, longer support, we can talk about a Delivery Reset. Your Kickoff fee applies as a credit toward the Reset if you decide to continue within four weeks.
Forward them this page. The pitch is simple: €5,000 is less than one month of wasted time costs. The team gets a clear setup in two days instead of three months of trial and error. Fixed price, no ongoing commitment. If it doesn't help, you're out two days, not six months of consulting fees.
Previous client implementation took 18 months and nearly broke the team. I went to the factory floor, talked to machine operators, prototyped with real users, and turned a one-hour daily meeting into 15 minutes. The next comparable implementation took 6 months. Three times faster.
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30 minutes. No pitch. You tell me what's going on and I'll tell you whether a kickoff is the right move, or if it's not. Most kickoffs get booked within two weeks of the call.
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