The Pilot Case
Find out which half is broken, before you spend anything fixing it.
From £35,000 · 4 to 6 weeks · Fixed fee
Every initiative works. The number will not move.
You have done the obvious things. The team is good, the programmes are sound, the strategy reads well. Nothing compounds, and everyone has a theory about why.
A national foundation had three strategies on the table, each with advocates. We modelled all three. Every one produced 0.0% measurable impact, because the structure underneath could not convert any of them.
A Pilot Case ends that argument with a number.
What it answers
Which half is broken, and what is worth piloting first.
Systems-rich, empathy-poor
Tools bought, platform deployed, process documented. Nobody uses any of it as designed.
Empathy-rich, systems-poor
Conviction, relationships, extraordinary people. No architecture to turn any of it into evidence, or evidence into money.
The two look identical from the inside. They need opposite fixes.
What happens
Map the wiring
Not the org chart. Value chains, funding flows, decision rights, outcome coverage, where authority and accountability come apart.
Read the behaviour
How people actually work, against how the structure assumes they will. The answer is usually here, and it is not in any document.
Model it
Simulate the futures you are already debating, before anyone commits. Structural modelling runs on GoodMora.
Name the pilot
Scoped, costed, tradeoffs stated, and the case for it modelled rather than argued.
What you get
- A diagnosis: which side, and where
- A structural map with the gaps quantified. Figures, not adjectives
- The recommended pilot, scoped and costed, defensible to a board
- The modelled case for it, validated before money is committed
The proof
Three good strategies, all worth nothing
A national foundation with strong programmes, credible goodwill and fundraising that would not compound. The board was debating three strategies. Each was plausible.
All three produced 0.0% measurable impact.
Once the conversion structure was repaired in the model, the growth engines appeared. The repair was worth $20M over 24 months, modelled before a single application was made.
What it costs
From £35,000
Fixed fee, fixed scope, four to six weeks.
If you go on to a Transformation Pilot within 90 days, we credit 50% of the fee against it. Reduced rates for mission-sector organisations. Ask.
What it is not
- No retainer
- No off-the-shelf workshop
- No 90-page report restating what you told us in the interviews
You get a diagnosis, a number, and one recommendation you can act on or reject on the evidence.
What happens next
Most Pilot Cases lead to a Transformation Pilot. Some lead nowhere, because the answer was that the thing you were about to do would not have worked. That is a good outcome, and it is why the engagement is priced this way.