Diagnostic scope

What you get, what we need, how long it takes.

This page exists so nobody has to ask. If you are forwarding this to whoever approves the spend, everything they will want is below: the fee, the boundary of the work, the exports we need, the timeline, and what happens if your data turns out not to support the analysis.

The commercial terms

Fee

From $3,000, fixed

50% on signature, 50% on delivery. Fixed means fixed — there is no hourly component and no change order. If the work turns out to be larger than the data suggested, that is our problem, not a variation.

Time

Two to three weeks from usable data

Most of that is analysis, not your time. The data pull typically costs someone on your side about an hour, once.

Your effort

One export session, one 45-minute call

A kickoff call to confirm definitions, then five exports. We do not need access to your systems, and we do not need to speak to your CSRs.

Commitment

None beyond the diagnostic

Implementation and monitoring are priced separately and are never a condition of the measurement. If the number does not justify acting, the engagement ends and that is a valid outcome.

In scope

What the diagnostic examines.

Three components, computed separately from your own records, then reconciled against total inbound demand so the parts have to add up.

01 / Capacity

Calls you never got to

Half-hour interval analysis of offered load against staffing. Occupancy map by day of week and half hour. Your abandonment curve with caller patience fitted from your own callers. Where caller ID is present, recovery measured directly by matching abandoned numbers against later inbound calls.

02 / Conversion

Calls you answered and did not book

Decomposed by pipeline stage and by rep, with rates normalized inside lead-source and job-type cells so call mix is controlled for. Benchmarked against your own strongest performer rather than an external ideal.

03 / Turnover

What a departure actually costs

Fully loaded cost per separation, including the booking shortfall across the ramp period — the part that never appears on an invoice and therefore never gets counted.

Out of scope

What this engagement is not.

Stated as plainly as what it is, because an ambiguous boundary is what stalls an approval halfway through.

01

Not coaching or training

We do not write scripts, run sessions, or work with your reps. The output is a measurement and a ranked list of what to fix.

02

Not a software purchase

Nothing is installed, nothing is subscribed to, and there is no platform to adopt. You keep your phone system and your field-service software.

03

Not a marketing or lead-generation audit

We start at the moment a call arrives. What you spend to make the phone ring is outside the boundary.

04

Not a staffing recommendation we implement

The diagnostic tells you where the interval-level gaps are and what closing them is worth. Rebuilding the schedule is the Build engagement, quoted separately.

What we need from you

Five exports and two figures.

We send a checklist written for your specific phone system and field-service software — the exact reports to run and the columns to include. Ninety days of history is the minimum.

01

Call detail records

From your phone system. One row per inbound call, with timestamp, queue wait, talk time, outcome, and whether it abandoned. Caller number if available — it is hashed on arrival and the raw values are never stored.

02

Bookings and completed job values

From your field-service software. Enough to tie a booking to a date and a completed value.

03

CSR roster

Who was on the phones over the period, and their start dates. Names can be pseudonymized before you send them; we only need consistent identifiers.

04

Shift schedule

Who was scheduled when, at whatever granularity you keep it. This is what makes interval-level capacity analysis possible.

05

Separations over the period

How many CSRs left, and when. A single number and some dates.

06

Two figures from you

Contribution margin, and what you pay whoever recruits and coaches CSRs. Both are stated by you rather than measured, and both are labelled as such in the appendix.

What you receive

A written report, twelve to sixteen pages.

Built to survive being forwarded to someone with a finance background and read sceptically.

01

The number

One page. The range and the most-likely value, monthly and annualized, in both revenue and contribution margin. Nothing else on the page.

02

Reconciliation waterfall

Total inbound demand through answered, through booked, into the three buckets — and it has to close.

03

Component analyses

Interval occupancy and abandonment with fitted patience; stage and per-rep conversion decomposition, mix-normalized; fully loaded turnover cost.

04

Sensitivity analysis

Which assumptions actually drive the spread, so you know which ones are worth arguing about.

05

Ranked remediation with payback periods

What to fix first, in payback order, with the arithmetic behind the ranking.

06

Limitations and full methodology appendix

Every parameter with its source: measured from your data, stated by you, or an industry default. Defaults are flagged and counted.

Before any fee

If your data cannot support it, you find out for free.

Seven data quality gates run before anything is computed. If one fails you receive a readiness report instead of a figure — what is missing, what to start capturing, and when to come back. There is no charge for that answer and no partial result is published dressed up as a finding.

That check happens on the data review, which is the step before the engagement and before any invoice. In practice it means the worst outcome available to you is finding out precisely which instrumentation your phone system is missing.