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A path from what people tell you to what you can tell the client.

Bring interviews, documents and working sessions together. Prepare the analysis, examine the business issues and explain the findings with their sources close at hand.

One place to prepare and explain

  • Bring different stakeholder accounts into the same analysis.
  • Keep the source behind a finding available when someone challenges it.
  • Move from a brief overview into the detail of a particular issue.
  • Take a focused presentation and a fuller report into the client conversation.

01Prepare together

Start with the material you already have.

Add interview transcripts, PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets and slide decks. Capture discussion and observations in a shared Workshop, with Ask Phaseplane alongside the work. Save a Workshop for later or select several Workshops to prepare one diagnostic intake.

Phaseplane uses reviewed file material and notes to draft three editable answers. What is happening now? What outcome matters? What stands in the way? Review the draft and its sources before running the diagnosis. You can also write those answers directly.

File format and size limits apply. Review what was read and resolve flagged gaps before relying on the material.

02Understand the issues

One engagement can contain several problems.

A delivery problem, a decision bottleneck and a capacity constraint may each need attention. Phaseplane can identify distinct business issues within the same case and examine how they relate. Start with the Overview, then open an issue for the explanation and the questions that remain.

The finished diagnosis includes findings, uncertainties and business wording for review. You receive a notification when it is ready.

03Check the sources

When accounts disagree, keep the disagreement visible.

A manager’s account, an interview transcript and an operational record play different roles. Phaseplane keeps source references with the reviewed material and distinguishes background context from evidence assessed against a finding.

Inspect what supports, challenges or limits a conclusion. Conflicting accounts and unresolved questions give you something specific to take back to the people involved.

Observation

Priorities change after work has started.

supports

Working interpretation

Unresolved intake decisions may generate interruptions and rework downstream.

leaves open

Open question

Does demand also exceed the team’s capacity?

New evidence starts a new analysis round. The earlier round is kept.

Illustrative: how a finding relates to its evidence, using the diagnostic example. Not a product screen.

04Present to clients

Lead the discussion. Open the detail when it matters.

Use Present to client to walk through the key findings. The diagnostic Overview gives you a brief view by issue, with links into the reasoning and sources. Export a PDF when the client needs a document to read or circulate.

Invite a client to a workspace with read-only access when they need to inspect the work themselves. Your team decides who can see the material.

05Explore next steps

Ask the next question when you need the answer.

  • Forecast. Explore what may happen under stated conditions and where the diagnosis leaves uncertainty.
  • Intervention. Examine possible responses to an issue and the conditions that affect them.
  • Monitoring. Identify what to watch and what new information would warrant another look.

You request these analyses when they are useful. Your team gathers observations and brings them back into the case.

06Revisit the case

Keep the history as your understanding develops.

Record new observations on Updates or gather them in follow-up Workshops. Review what the new material means for the existing diagnosis before preparing a revised run. A new account may describe a recent change or add information about an earlier event.

History lets you open earlier published diagnoses and the linked Workshops. Return to what was known at the time and see which diagnosis is current.

Decision Integrity

A proposal to examine? Start with Commitment Check.

For a specific proposal, Commitment Check examines how far the supplied evidence justifies proceeding and what would justify a stronger commitment. Build / No-Build applies the decision workflow to a proposed build. Your team retains responsibility for the decision.

Before you start

How does AI fit into the consulting work?
AI helps read material, draft the intake and generate analysis. The workflow retains source references, checks outputs and preserves diagnosis versions. Your team reviews the material, tests the findings against its knowledge of the client and decides what to recommend.
Can several people work on a case?
Invite colleagues into a workspace to contribute. Workshops hold the working material, and the consultant selects which Workshops feed the diagnostic preparation. Read-only guests can inspect the work shared with them.
How do we handle client material?
Review the Trust & data information and your client’s permissions before uploading. Agree any requirements with us before starting. Use an example for the first conversation and keep private documents out of the public contact form.

See how it fits your next engagement.

Tell us about your consulting work. We’ll walk through an example and discuss how your team could use Phaseplane, including access and pricing.