Crux Field · Twelve-month engagement

Most firms
visit. We move
in.

Crux Field is twelve months inside your operation, building the system that decides well, then handing you the keys.

The premise

A consultant leaves you a report. Crux Field leaves you a team that no longer needs one. We build the operating system that makes sharp decisions repeatable, then we taper out.

The work · Two streams, one engagement

One builds the system.
One moves it.

Twelve months, embedded in the operation. The strategic stream and the tactical stream run together, every month.

Strategic stream

Build the system

A diagnostic baseline that names the binding constraints. A roadmap that sequences the moves. A governance architecture: the cadence, the decision rights, the reporting. A rolling 90-day plan, refreshed each quarter with the leadership team in the room.

Tactical stream

Move the system

Focused improvement sprints, three to four a year, each one a named crux with measurable change implemented before we leave. A capability build that trains your own people as we work. A monthly coaching layer for the leaders carrying the decisions.

What is built · Five components

Every engagement, the same five.

Different sector, different crux. The components, and the proportions, hold.

01

A roadmap and diagnostic baseline

We read the operation as it is: where flow breaks, where decisions stall, what the next ninety days has to deliver. The output is a ranked set of candidate cruxes and a rolling 90-day plan.

02

A governance architecture

A lightweight, deliberate cadence: weekly performance reviews, monthly replans, named decision rights, an escalation route that works. The shape flexes to the operation. The discipline does not.

03

A sequence of improvement sprints

Three to four a year. Each targets a named operational crux, runs over consecutive on-site days, and leaves behind implemented change and a plan to sustain it.

04

A capability build

We do not solve constraints and leave. We train your own people to run the system as we build it, so the discipline becomes theirs and not ours. By month twelve, the team runs it without us in the room.

05

A coaching layer

Monthly one-to-one sessions with the leaders carrying the decisions. Structured, written up, tracked. Not a chat. This is where decision quality compounds.

The retainer is reviewed from month seven. As your capability matures, your need for us should fade, not renew. Crux Field is built to end.

The detail · Who it is for, what it costs

A build, not a turnaround.

Who it is for
Leadership teams of operating businesses between roughly £30m and £500m revenue, in sectors where the cost of a wrong or delayed decision is high: regulated manufacturing, complex delivery, infrastructure, healthcare and life sciences. Operators carrying a step change the current operating system cannot deliver.
Track record
Run in life sciences, in green tech, in telecare: medicinal cannabis manufacturing and dispensing, home energy hardware at scale, critical life-support scaled. Three operations that could not be less alike. Three different cruxes. The same CRUX Method®.
Includes
A diagnostic baseline and 90-day roadmap, refreshed quarterly. A governance architecture with cadence, decision rights and reporting. Three to four improvement sprints a year. A capability build that trains your own people. Monthly one-to-one coaching for up to four leaders. A monthly performance report to the executive sponsor. Crux AI for the leadership team for the duration.
Pricing
From £55,000 / year

On a monthly retainer. Scope sets the final price: more improvement sprints, deeper coaching, a broader governance architecture. We do not price by day rate. We price by the system the engagement is built to leave behind. Where a team needs its internal capability built fast, the engagement can open with a focused capability programme in the first ninety days.

Twelve months from now, own it yourself.

Tell us about the operation, the call that has to be made, and the system you need built.

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