How it works

A structured coaching conversation that strengthens every idea.

Spend less time completing templates and more time thinking about what matters. The coach adapts to your idea, your evidence and your pace.

Before you begin

Configured around how you work

Before rollout, we work with you to understand how your organisation develops ideas and makes investment decisions. We then tailor the coach around your preferred questions, language, methodologies, governance requirements and assessment criteria.

Your policies, templates, frameworks, case studies and lessons learned can also inform the guidance it gives, creating a consistent coaching approach across your organisation.

What can be tailored

The coaching conversation
Questions and follow-up challenge
Your methodologies and frameworks
Evidence and supporting information
Assessment criteria
Recommendations and next steps
Dashboards and reports

Your organisation’s experience, standards and expectations, built into every coaching conversation.

Review an idea for free

01
Share your idea
Write a short description of what you want to do, in your own words. No jargon, no templates. The coach opens by simply asking: 'Tell me about your idea.'
Coaching conversation
Tell me about your idea, what problem does it solve?
We want to bring together three services under one roof so residents get help in one visit.
Interesting, one door for residents. Who benefits first, and how do you know?
Probably residents, but we haven't tested it with them yet.
Good signal. Let's shape a quick engagement conversation before you go further…
02
Work through seven coaching sections
Scope, Schedule, Budget, Stakeholders, Risks, Benefits and Delivery. One easy question at a time. You can pause, come back, and pick up where you left off.
Your assessments
Pick up where you left off
+ New
One Front Door
amber
Stage · Stakeholders
6.2/10
Coastal Cycle Network
green
Stage · Delivery
7.4/10
Digital Waste Permits
red
Stage · Scope
4.1/10
03
Add your evidence
Upload research, prior business cases, case studies or lessons learned. The coach reads them and tailors its questions to what you already know.
Executive dashboard
One Front Door, v0.3
Amber · Not ready
Confidence
6.2/ 10
Risks flagged
4
Assumptions
9
Recommended next moves
- Run a short session with residents to test the problem.
- Sponsor sign-off on scope before writing a business case.
- Confirm data-sharing review with IG, flagged early.
04
Get a decision-ready report
A one-page executive dashboard with a confidence score, RAG status, top risks and up to five recommendations. Export as PDF and share with your sponsor.
Decision-ready report
One Front Door, Draft v0.3
Amber · Not ready
Confidence
6.2
/ 10
Summary
A promising idea with a clear resident benefit, but stakeholder engagement and delivery accountability need more work before approval.
Scope
Schedule
Budget
Stakeholders
Risks
Benefits
Delivery
Top recommendations
1. 1Test the problem with 6–8 residents before writing a business case.
2. 2Confirm IG data-sharing review, flagged early.
3. 3Get sponsor sign-off on scope boundaries.
4. 4Reforecast whole-life cost including year 2 support.
5. 5Name a single accountable delivery lead.

Coaching principles

Built on how experienced sponsors actually think.

Open, coaching-style questions, never a checklist.
Short answers, one question at a time, no cognitive overload.
Encourages learning from others through research and case studies.
Surfaces stakeholder support early, before you commit real effort.
Cites your evidence in its advice so you can trust the output.

Ready to see it in action?

Seven questions · Around five minutes · Mini readiness dashboard · Work email required after question two · No credit card