How the Board works

Audit, judgement, quarters, compounding.

The Leverage Board is a membership seat, not a build retainer. You start with the Audit and a free Audit review call, then quarter one settles strategy before any build. Each quarter after, re-score, plug gaps and decide ship or hold.

How the Board works

From Audit to compounding

You start with clarity on stage and gaps. The Board then runs a quarterly rhythm of judgement, re-score and peer learning.

  1. 01

    AI Readiness and Governance Audit

    A short online assessment: your stage, pillar profile and where leverage is stuck. It frames the conversation, whether you book an Audit review call next or not.

  2. 02

    Free Audit review call with the practice

    Thirty minutes to sense-check fit and what would matter first in your firm. Straight answers, including when the Board is not the right move.

  3. 03

    Quarter one

    Mapping, governance, build-partner decision, owned roadmap and a productivity-per-head baseline. Strategy before build.

  4. 04

    Each quarter after

    Re-score the pillars, plug the constraint first, use strengths, and decide ship or hold. Judgement stays human at the ship-gate.

  5. 05

    Annual Leverage Summit

    One day, in person, members only: peers, expert speakers and real operator stories around leverage and stuck interactions.

  6. 06

    Year two and beyond

    Compounding: deeper playbooks, benchmarking against your own past quarters, and advanced releases when the operation is ready.

When the Board says build

Impact Build is a later decision

When the operation is ready and judgement says ship, Impact Build can be scoped as a fixed engagement, delivered by a partner, your own vendor or us, under Board oversight. The Board plans and governs the method.

The commercial terms

What you are agreeing to, in plain terms.

A seat, not hours
Leverage Board membership is a seat with a defined rhythm of sessions and office hours, not an hourly retainer or open chat queue.
No lock-in
Your roadmap and IP stay yours. Pause or leave when you need to; nothing renews by default.
No hourly billing
There is no rate card, no minimum billable unit, and no invoice that needs decoding at the end of the month.
Every step is a decision point
Build only moves when the Board says ship. Stopping is a normal outcome, not a failure.
Common questions

The things people ask on the first call.

Where do we start?

With the AI Readiness and Governance Audit if you want a fast read on stage and gaps, or a free Audit review call if you would rather talk first. Both routes end in the same straight conversation about fit and what would matter first.

Do you build?

Sometimes, when the Board says ship and you want us to deliver. Often a partner or your own vendor builds under Board oversight. Impact Build is scoped as a later decision, not the default entry.

Are you tied to a vendor?

No. We are not reselling anyone’s licences and there is no platform we are obliged to steer you towards. Build-partner choice is independent and on your side of the table.

How do we know it’s working?

Productivity per head, tracked quarter by quarter against the baseline set in quarter one, plus honest ship / don’t ship decisions you can see in the roadmap.

What tools do you build with?

Whatever fits the problem. We are not reselling anyone’s licences and there is no platform we are obliged to steer you towards. Sometimes the right answer is a spreadsheet and a rule change rather than software at all.

Will our data be used to train anything?

No. Your data is used to do your work. It is not pooled, sold, or fed into a model for anyone else’s benefit, and the specifics go in the engagement agreement rather than staying a verbal assurance.

Why are your prices not on the site?

Because a published number would be wrong for most firms who read it. Membership and any build work are scoped to your stage and constraints. You get fixed terms in writing before anything starts.

Next step

Take the Audit or book a call.

If growth without headcount is the goal and judgement on AI and operations is the blocker, start with the Audit or talk it through. Terms stay private until they are written down.