Recovery
Something's already active. Something feels off.
A vendor, a stack, a relationship, and you can't tell if it's you or them. Recovery is the in-flight gut check, the mid-flight counterpart to Readiness. Readiness runs before you commit to something. Recovery runs on the thing you already committed to.
This isn't a new idea. It's a version of an offer I've run for years, now published, priced, and given a clean frame.
The mechanic that makes this honest
The Moment of Engagement.
At the moment the engagement starts, everything currently active and in-flight is what's covered. Not speculative, not "thinking about it," just what's real and moving right now.
That timestamp is a definition of scope, not a restriction on you. Nothing is being policed. You're never told what you may or may not buy elsewhere while this runs.
Anything that shows up after that moment is its own new thing. Not scope creep, not a violation, just a new engagement if you want one.
How the review actually works
Four questions, every element.
For every vendor, tool, or piece of the stack under review, the same four questions get asked. Completion means resolution and a decision on every single element, not a summary report covering all of them. Each one lands somewhere concrete: keep it, cut it, fix it, escalate it.
1
What is it supposed to be doing
The scope, the promise, the reason it's on the stack at all.
2
What is it actually doing
The gap between the promise and the reality, measured plainly.
3
How do you feel about it
The one no ordinary audit asks, and the one that surfaces the most.
4
Where is the uncertainty
The part nobody's been willing to name out loud yet.
One job, three depths
Suggest, remediate, or manage.
Not three separate offerings. The same review, carried to a deeper depth each step. Every depth starts with the same frozen frame and the same four questions.
Audit & Suggest
$2,50030 days, frozen frame
I read it and hand you the recommendations. You execute.
The near-instant read: is this thing chuff, needed, or duplicative. A tech stack review moves fast. A vendor or agency review is mostly a re-introduction to what was actually promised at the start.
Audit & Remediate
$2,500base + $1,000 buckets, agreed before each one applies
Everything in Audit & Suggest, then I do the correction myself.
Renegotiation, consolidation, re-scoping, the difficult vendor conversations you've been avoiding. Requires giving me authority to change things, not just look at them. That authority is the real input difference from Suggest. Without it, this is just Suggest with extra steps.
Requires authority to act, not just to observe.
Audit & Manage
$2,500base + $1,000 buckets, windowed
He holds the frozen situation for you, in the room as mediator.
The deepest depth. I sit with you and the vendor as the third party who can say the thing neither side will say and has no stake in who's right. This is the one that reads closest to a standing retainer, and it survives only because of the freeze fence: it manages a bounded, already-defined situation, not an open-ended relationship. Once the window closes and the in-flight set resolves, there's nothing left to manage. Restarting after that takes a fresh Readiness call and a new engagement, not an extension.
Why buckets, not one number
The read is fixed-price. The fix rarely is.
The base read is genuinely fast and fixed-price-able. What happens after, the actual fixing, always shifts mid-way. The effort ends up being the same and the ask always changes mid-way. That's the nature of helping people get unstuck, not a special problem with this offering.
So the base stays fixed, and scope moves in $1,000 units, each one agreed to before it applies. Not a meter running in the background, not a change-order negotiation. A published increment with a real decision point in front of it every time, which keeps expectations honest instead of the goalpost quietly moving.
$1,000 is also the standing unit price across this whole site: Rapid Results, Readiness, the Field Lab revival, and now this. Same unit, everywhere it applies.
Freeze the frame. Find out what's real.
One Moment of Engagement, four questions per element, three depths to work the answer. Start with a call, or see where Recovery sits against everything else on the price list.
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