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# The two-minute strategy audit
> Produce a scored, evidence-backed assessment of any client strategy in minutes — your strongest opening in a first meeting.
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## Why this matters
In a first meeting, most consultants pitch capability. The best ones prove insight. A strategy
audit lets you assess a prospect's strategy in the time it takes to make a coffee — and hand
them a scored, evidence-backed diagnosis they've never seen before, before you've opened a
proposal.
Weeks of stakeholder interviews, document review, and synthesis — 40+ hours
of senior time before a single meaningful conversation.
The same depth and rigour, grounded in proven frameworks, delivered in the
opening minutes of the meeting.
This is not a black-box AI opinion. The assessment applies the canon you already teach — Rumelt's
*Good Strategy/Bad Strategy*, Porter's competitive positioning, Kaplan & Norton's balanced
scorecard — and cites the client's **own words** back to them. That's the difference between an
opinion and a finding, and it's where the conversation about how you can help begins.
## Run the audit
On the **Strategy** page, use **Upload** to bring in the client's existing
strategy — a PDF, Word document, board paper, or even a photo of a
whiteboard. The AI extracts the content; no reformatting needed. (See
[Strategy](/features/strategy) for the full import flow.)
Within seconds, the AI returns a **Quick Assessment** scoring the strategy
across four dimensions — whether any key elements are missing, whether it is
strategically coherent, whether goals are clear, measurable, and time-bound,
and whether it is actionable. Each is rated **Poor → Excellent** with
specific positives and gaps.
Open a lower-scoring dimension. The finding quotes the client's own goals
and points to exactly what's missing — for example, a goal like *"expand our
digital presence meaningfully"* flagged for having no target, timeframe, or
baseline. It's very hard for a prospect to argue with their own strategy.
For a fuller picture, open the **Health Check** at the top of the client's
home page — 14 dimensions of strategic health (Strategic Alignment, Goal
Achievement, Innovation, Risk Management, Customer Focus, Employee
Experience, and more), each rated **Poor → Excellent** with evidence drawn
from the strategy, plus an overall assessment for the whole organisation.
You choose which dimensions stay pinned to the client's home page.
**Don't just run it once.** For clients you already serve, run the audit every
month or every quarter. You'll catch the drift between the board-approved
strategy and what's actually being executed — before they do. That's the
insight that renews an engagement.
## The value you're delivering
* **A conversation starter that wins work** — a detailed, evidence-backed assessment delivered
before you've written a proposal.
* **Findings, not opinions** — every score is tied to the client's own wording, grounded in
frameworks they recognise.
* **Days of analysis in minutes** — the diagnostic that normally needs interviews and document
review, produced while the coffee is poured.
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