From spreadsheet wrangling to same day insights.
From spreadsheet wrangling to same day insights.
From spreadsheet wrangling to same day insights.

Working for a fast growing management consultancy, we turned a slow and brittle onboarding process into a self-serve diagnostics platform for quickly scoping and cross-selling engagements.

Working for a fast growing management consultancy, we turned a slow and brittle onboarding process into a self-serve diagnostics platform for quickly scoping and cross-selling engagements.

About the project

Capability assessments had become central to how our client scoped new engagements. But rapid growth had exposed the limits of manual onboarding: bespoke spreadsheets, interview coordination, and hand-built dashboards for every client created delays and introduced risk at the handover between sales and delivery.


The brief

Turn an expert-led, high-touch process into something anyone could run. Maintain analytical depth, but remove the operational drag.


The Challenge

The client diagnostic tool needed to support intricate taxonomies and weighting logic while staying approachable for non-technical users. Discovery highlighted a tension: clients needed something simple enough to complete alone but rigorous enough to generate insights worth paying for.

Impact at a glance

Authoring & approval

weeks ➝ hours (self-serve)

Analytics latency

instant, no manual stitching

Enterprise-ready

SSO integrated from the first release

Adoption signals

positive feedback from teams and leadership on utility and usability

Strategy & platform vision

We started the project by helping to secure leadership buy-in with a business case and broad vision: a unified architecture that can host multiple diagnostics over time, enabling cross-client insights, benchmarking, and smoother cross-sell. We mapped the platform into existing workflows, accelerated by prior “jobs-to-be-done” research, and enforced consistency and speed via a shared design system,  paying dividends as new variants shipped.


Moments that moved the needle

SSO first, then everything else.

Enterprise roll-out depended on secure authentication. By making SSO an early milestone, we unblocked pilots and set the foundation for smooth deployment and iteration.

Templates with freedom.

We balanced speed and flexibility by supporting configurable categories, questions, and weighting — giving consultants structure when they want it and control when they need it.

Confidence loop via Preview/Publish.

A simple preview → publish workflow helped sponsors understand what would go live, reducing back-and-forth and shortening approvals.

From slides to live insight.

Interactive dashboards deliver an executive overview with the option to drill into detail and verbatims — no analyst stitching required.

What We Built

A platform, not just a product. Five diagnostic apps launched together, built on shared architecture that was designed to evolve.


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For consultants:

Template libraries with full customisation. Mobile-first survey builder. One-click publishing. Real-time analytics with drill-down capability.



For clients:

Frictionless mobile experience. Anonymous or authenticated access. Live results. Interactive visualizations replacing static slide decks.






For the business:

SSO security.
Multi-diagnostic architecture.
A foundation for benchmarking and cross-selling.



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