From hypothesis to understanding.
Stage 1 analysed your organisation from the outside-in. It used only what was publicly visible, and it was built to be tested against actual data and knowledge from inside your organisation.
Stage 2 is where that testing happens. We bring your own data and your own people's accounts into the analysis, and the accuracy of what we can tell you moves with it, from roughly 60 to 80 per cent to somewhere between 85 and 95.
This brings up three important aspects we cover in this page. Data we ask for to do a high quality stage 2 diagnostic, data confidentiality and pricing.
All are covered in the passages below, but if you want to get straight to the calculator, then scroll down to the bottom of the page now.
Data we request as a starting point.
Every stage 2 engagement begins with the same base package, regardless of size. It isn't exhaustive, and where something doesn't exist in the form described, an equivalent is usually enough.
Five years of financial performance: revenue, margin, EBITDA, profit after tax, return on capital employed
Talent metrics, including retention and turnover, and any engagement or culture survey results you hold
External reputation signals: Glassdoor or similar employee reviews, and customer feedback or satisfaction data
Internal strategy documents, or whatever stands in for them, board papers, an away-day deck, even a founder's own notes
An organisational chart, and a sense of tenure across the business
For manufacturing and industrial businesses, health and safety records, and any data on defects, warranty claims, or customer complaints
For larger organisations
As a business grows past roughly 250 people, more of this kind of material tends to already exist, and where it does, it sharpens the reading considerably: chairman's statements and annual report commentary, analyst notes and investor communications, board minutes, and segment or subsidiary reporting all carry signal that a smaller business has had no reason to produce yet.
This isn't a separate version of stage 2, or a different offer for bigger clients. It's the same engagement and the same base package, with additional material folded in where it exists. Nothing about the process changes because a business is larger, only how much is already sitting in a drawer waiting to be read.
Confidentiality and how your information is handled
Before anything changes hands, we sign a mutual non-disclosure agreement covering the engagement. It protects you as much as it protects us, and it exists so that what you share with us stays exactly where you intended it, inside the engagement, and nowhere beyond it.
Only the people working directly on your engagement ever see your data, and it's used for one purpose, the reading itself. Once the engagement ends, or once we've been out of touch for a while, we delete what you've given us within three months, or sooner if you ask us to, and any hard copies you've provided are returned to you on the same timescale.
NB: If you want to see a copy of the NDA, please email us at amit@weareadaptiv.net and request this.
How this is priced
The core diagnostic is priced on practitioner time, not on the size of your business. A day of collecting, structuring, and making sense of this material costs the same whether a company turns over one million pounds or one hundred million, so we price it that way, a day rate applied to the days a genuine reading actually takes.
That rate is set close to cost, not to margin. We are still building the evidence for this way of working, and the near-term aim is proof, not profit. What you pay reflects roughly what the work costs us to do properly, nothing built in beyond that.
Protect the short-term. Build the long-term.
Work out your own estimate
The calculator below shows how your organisation's shape, not just its size, moves the diagnostic scope and the price. Move the sliders to reflect your business as closely as you can, and it will show an indicative figure in seconds. It won't be exact, and it isn't a quotation, but it should give you a fair sense of what to expect before we ever speak.
Stage 2 · indicative estimate
Stage 2 Diagnostic Costing Calculator.
This calculator shows how the shape of your organisation, not just its headcount, translates into a diagnostic scope and a price. Adjust it to receive an indicative estimate.
Organisation
For reference only. It does not drive the price below.
Estimated days
3
Core diagnostic price
£1,500
Day composition
Optional modules
In larger organisations we also gather feedback directly from employees, so we are not only hearing the voice of leadership.
An impartial observer sitting in on leadership and management meetings often surfaces perspective and detail that isn't visible to those already in the room.
The voice of the customer is often the most candid in the business, shared more openly with an outside party than directly with the company itself.
For internal and advisor review. Figures are indicative, built from a working model, and not a quotation. The actual scope and price for any engagement is confirmed in conversation.