Systems Leap™ programme
5 stages. 1 business that runs without you.
Most consulting engagements advance because time passed. This one advances because a gate was met.
A gate is a written test, agreed before the stage starts, with a number in it and a date on it. At the end of every stage you sit down with that gate in front of you and answer 1 question honestly: did this happen, or did it not?
If it did not, and the cause sits on our side, nothing is charged beyond the deliverables already delivered and accepted. That is the risk-free stage guarantee, and those are its terms.
Across 5 stages your business climbs a ladder of independence: Build, Handheld Run, Supervised Run, Unsupervised Run, then scale. Impactful growth, why not?
Growth is the direction we build towards, never a figure we promise.
See the 5 Stages ↓ · See the whole road on the Roadmap page.
- 6execution steps
- 13weeks per installation
- 5stages
- 3Stage Gates
5 stages
Your climb, one gate at a time
🧱 Stage 1 · Setup (Pre-Alpha) · Build
What happens. Instrumentation before intervention: the scorecard designed, data wired, owners named, your baseline frozen in writing so nobody can argue about it later.
You do. Approve the scorecard. Name the owners. Hand over the numbers, including the ugly ones.
Your team does. Learn the scorecard well enough to explain it to someone who missed the session.
We do. Design, wire, document, and sit with each owner until they can read their own line.
The scorecard is live, and every number on it has a named owner and a verifiable source.
🧪 Stage 2 · Pilot · Handheld Run
What happens. Your 1st processes go live with our hands on them: beside your people, not behind them.
You do. Protect the time. Escalate blockers the same day instead of absorbing them yourself.
Your team does. Run the process for real, and say where it breaks.
We do. Write the processes with their owners, run the cadence, correct in real time, and log every failure as a design fault, never a people fault.
Your team completes the agreed number of full cycles and meets the written definition of done, uncorrected.
⚙️ Stage 3 · Standardize · Supervised Run
What happens. Control moves across the table. Your leads chair the cadence; we watch and coach.
You do. Stop attending the meetings you no longer need to attend. Founders find this stage hardest.
Your team does. Chair, decide, escalate by exception.
We do. Observe, measure adoption, tighten what drifts, and say nothing your lead could have said.
Your weekly trajectory holds for the agreed run of consecutive weeks, chaired by your people, adoption recorded.
⚡ Stage 4 · Optimize · Unsupervised Run
What happens. Our hands come off, and you find out what the system does when nobody is holding it.
You do. Resist rescuing it. A system that only works when you rescue it is not a system.
Your team does. Run the business, and improve the process themselves.
We do. Watch the numbers, run a fortnightly trajectory, and fix design faults rather than symptoms.
A full quarter with no LeapCode™ hand on the cadence, and measured adoption above the threshold written into the gate.
📈 Stage 5 · UpLeap (Scale) · Handover
What happens. The system library, dashboards, training material and the reasoning behind every choice become yours.
You do. Decide where the business goes next, with capacity you did not have 12 months ago.
Your team does. Build the next system alone.
We do. Transfer the wisdom behind the systems, then step back to a cadence you choose, or step out.
Your business can add a market, a line or a leader without adding you.
Growth is the direction we build towards, never a figure we promise.
6 steps, 5 stages
How 6 steps and 5 stages fit together
The 6 steps install 1 engine in 13 weeks, with Stage Gates on Day 21, 40 and 90. The 5 stages are the ladder your business climbs with that engine.
| DoWeek 1 | DesignWeek 2 | First FixWeek 3 · Day 21 Stage Gate | Setup (Pre-Alpha)Weeks 4-5 · Day 40 Stage Gate | 3. PilotWeeks 6-9 | Day 90 gateWeeks 10-13 · Day 90 Stage Gate | After the installNo install step | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The 5 stages | Before SetupThe groundwork | 🧱 SetupBuild | 🧪 PilotHandheld Run | ⚙️ StandardizeSupervised Run | ⚡ OptimizeUnsupervised Run | 📈 UpLeap (Scale) | ||
| Who carries it | Done-For-You (DFY) runs until Optimize is complete | Done-With-You (DWY) only | ||||||
Scroll sideways on a small screen. Each stage below carries its own written gate.
Frameworks in this programme
- 321-LEAP OS · the Operating System (OS) behind 321 Leap™
- SOCIETY™ (Trajectories Framework) · the climb from Setup to Scale
- Graduation Threshold Framework · the number a gate must meet
Adoption
"Adoption measured, not assumed": what that actually means
Every failed systems project ended with someone saying "the team is using it" and nobody checking.
So it gets checked, and you get the number whether it flatters the project or not.
- Events that happened, not events that were scheduled. A stand-up in the calendar is not a stand-up.
- People who used the process, against the people it was written for. Named, not estimated.
- Decisions made inside the system, against decisions that escaped to WhatsApp. The escape route is the real measure of a system's health.
- Scorecard lines updated by their owner, rather than by us.
When adoption is low, the finding goes into your trajectory pack in the same font as everything else. Low adoption is a design fault, ours before it is yours, so the design gets fixed.
A narrow system that is used beats a complete system that is admired.
Under the hood
The engine behind the programme
Systems Leap™ is the programme you buy. Behind it sits Foundation OS, the operating system LeapCode™ runs on itself.
You will never be asked to learn it. It matters to you for exactly 2 reasons.
It is why 2 different engagements get the same standard. Your gates and your cadence do not depend on who is in the room that week.
It is why the work can be handed over. A firm that cannot describe its own method cannot transfer it. So at UpLeap (Scale) you get the reasoning, not just the artefacts.
That is all a buyer needs to know about it.
Want 1 system installed, not the whole programme?
Our White Glove installs build 1 system in 13 weeks. Pick the Client Magnet Engine™, the Price-Proof Offer Ladder or the Enquiry-to-Cash Pipeline, or all 3 as the Revenue Generation Unit.
Scope
What is included, and what is not
Included as standard: systems building · implementation · optimisation · team training · transfer of the wisdom behind the systems to you after Optimize.
Not included: any software, app or automation you purchase or rent. You get the most cost-effective option, open source where it genuinely serves, and the tool we would choose for ourselves, and you own the licence.
Billed at cost, agreed in advance: travel, lodging and meals for onsite work; stationery and props for workshops.
Every client pays the same price for the same size of work. Services are never discounted. See the Price. More value arrives as added scope or a bonus at the same rate. Your fee is printed as a share of your monthly topline on every proposal, including the months where that share is unflattering.
Questions
Questions, answered plainly.
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Hear the fixes. Then decide whether any of this is worth your time.
Let's grow like crazy and systematically. Why not?