For established founders and experts
You can execute yesterday's playbook perfectly and still get today's problem.
When a successful business stops responding the way it used to, Temporal Intelligence finds the one Constraint behind the problems. Then, if you want it, we map what to do about it, and when.
01What clients say after they read it
“This blows business coaching out of the water.”
“It's kind of like the security briefing the president gets.”
“Every business owner needs this.”
“A fascinating dive into what your drivers are, where you can enjoy greatest success, and what directions are likely to provide best outcomes.”
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02The Method
Find the problem behind the problems.
"I need more clients" can be a symptom. "My marketing stopped working" can be a symptom. Even "I'm burned out" can be a symptom.
And if you mistake the symptom for the underlying condition, you can spend a tremendous amount of money getting very good solutions to the wrong problem.
We look for where the evidence converges.
A short online intake. It takes approximately 10 minutes. No weeks of journaling. No giant workbook. Then we investigate independently.
You tell us what's right. What's close. What's wrong. You show us what we couldn't see.
The Constraint is the thing that makes the symptoms coherent.
We keep calibrating until we reach the finish line: "Yep. That's it."
There's no sales call required. Most Founder's Diagnostics can be completed in approximately 7 to 10 days, depending primarily on how quickly you're able to review and respond.
What happens after the Diagnostic? Maybe nothing. The Founder's Diagnostic is a complete engagement. If you find yourself asking "Okay. I see it. Now which way do I go?", that's the Temporal Map.
03Case Study 01
We'll call her Diane. The financials were real. But the business that had produced those numbers no longer existed.
"It was a lot of money for nothing, quite frankly."
What the Diagnostic found
The business was competing in the wrong tier.
Every symptom looked like marketing: traffic, conversion, positioning, acquisition. The marketing problems were real. They just weren't THE problem.
The pricing, the acquisition difficulty, the positioning and the mismatch between what the business delivered and how it was sold suddenly made sense together.
We knew what problem we were actually solving.
"That's it. That's it. Yeah, that's it. Perfect."
"It was probably the most important thing I did this summer."
04Who this is for
05The Reads
The Founder's Diagnostic establishes what's true. The Temporal Map determines what to do with what's true.
The way in
Find the problem behind the problems, before you make another expensive move.
We guarantee we won't stop at a diagnosis that doesn't resonate.
The complete read
Know which way to go, and when to move.
The Founder's Diagnostic plus the Temporal Map
The diagnosis determines what belongs next. Not our need to sell you something else.
If you are unsure where to begin, begin with the Diagnostic.
06Questions
Very little at the start: a short intake of about 10 minutes, then we investigate on our own. Your first findings arrive within 3 business days. You mark what is right, what is close and what is wrong, and add what only someone inside the business could know. Then we reveal the Constraint with you, live. Most Diagnostics finish in about 7 to 10 days, and the pace depends mostly on how quickly you respond.
A diagnostic record you keep: how you are built to operate, what is actually happening inside the business, what is happening in the market around it, and the one Constraint that makes those findings make sense together. You own the diagnosis. Use it yourself, give it to your team or a trusted advisor, or continue into the Temporal Map. The diagnosis determines what belongs next.
Then we are not finished. The Recognition Guarantee means we keep calibrating until we reach a Constraint that fits the evidence and that you recognize as explaining what has actually been happening. We do not guarantee you will like the answer, and we do not promise a particular financial result.
Because your time is better spent on the diagnosis than on a pitch. There is no hour of explaining your business to someone deciding whether to take you on, and no one to convince. You invest in the Diagnostic, we start investigating straight away, and the conversation you do have is the one that matters: the reveal, where you see what the evidence says and tell us whether it is true.
It is one part of a larger read. Your Structural Architecture draws on seven symbolic systems, and we only pay attention where independent systems point to the same pattern. That is one of four examinations. The others look at your business, your market, and the timing you are operating inside. The Constraint comes from where all of that converges, and you calibrate every finding before it counts. We use AI to make the translation, convergence and ranking possible. We drive it. It does not tell us what is true.
07Go deeper
Read a complete Structural Architecture before you decide. Each one opens as the full read.
08The founders
We've spent 30 years building businesses together, online and off, as partners in both work and life.
Architect of the method
Architect of the diagnostic methodology behind our work. Founding editor of Healthy Wealthy nWise, the first online personal development magazine in the world, in 2003.
Liz on LinkedIn
Systems and markets
A background in systems engineering and programming, expertise in marketing, and the instinct to understand how complex systems actually work. More than 300 conversations with entrepreneurs since Convergence.
Ric on LinkedInInsight isn't enough. It has to become useful.
And usefulness isn't enough. It has to survive reality.
09Writing
Essays on what changed, and what it means for a business built before it.
Don't make your next move until you know what moved.
