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The 25-minute diagnostic that could save
your $40M transformation.

Find out exactly where your program will fail, before your board does.

$12,500 · 25 min

What you will know

Five answers no status report will give you.

Every finding is anchored to something you said in the interview, cited verbatim. Nothing is generated from a model's assumptions.

  1. 01

    Which of the five transformation pillars carries your highest go-live risk, scored against behavioral evidence, not intuition.

  2. 02

    Whether the people with authority to make decisions are actually making them, or whether the SI has quietly taken the wheel.

  3. 03

    Where your workforce stands against the readiness the program needs, mapped to your specific phase and go-live date.

  4. 04

    Whether your change management narrative is landing with operating groups, or whether they are hearing something different from what you are saying.

  5. 05

    A prioritized remediation roadmap: three to five concrete actions, sequenced by impact, with a 30/60/90 cadence you can bring to your next steering meeting.

The 25 minutes

A structured interview, not a survey.

The analyst does not read a script at you and you do not fill in a form. Each pillar gets four to five minutes of structured conversation, with probes that push past the talking points to where the program actually stands.

  1. 0:00

    ~3 min

    Setup and orientation.

    Confirm program type, phase, scope, and the lead's role. Establish what "success" means to your CFO and your operating groups before we start grading.

  2. 3:00

    ~5 min

    Pillar 01

    Sponsorship and governance.

    Who owns the outcome, who can change the design, how decisions escalate, and what the working committee is allowed to decide on its own.

  3. 8:00

    ~5 min

    Pillar 02

    Change and adoption.

    Whether the people doing the work have been brought into the change or had it sent to them. Where the OCM function reports. What "adoption" is being measured against.

Questions you will hear

A small sample. The probes are sharper.

These are the openers. The follow-ups are calibrated to your answers and the rubric, so the conversation goes where the signal is.

Sponsorship

Who has the authority to change the design when the SI pushes back?

Change & adoption

Walk me through how your operating groups first learned this program was happening.

Workforce

If we pull your best supply-chain planner for six months, who is doing their day job?

Communications

What is the next communication going out, and what does it say?

The deliverable

A report your PMO can work from on Monday.

Fourteen to eighteen pages. Pillar scores with the rubric used to grade them. Findings cited line by line from the interview. A sequenced remediation plan with effort, impact, and a 30/60/90 cadence.

No filler. No platitudes. No charts that exist just to fill the page.

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Transformation Diagnostic

Vol. 04 · May 2026

Meridian Foods
ERP go-live readiness.


LEVELSET.

Sample · client name and scores fictional

The pillars assessed

01

Enterprise Transformation Strategy

Clarity of vision, executive sponsorship, governance structure, and program design.

02

Organizational Change Management

Stakeholder engagement, resistance management, and adoption planning.

03

Strategic Communications & Executive Messaging

Internal communications cadence, executive visibility, and narrative clarity.

04

Training & Enablement

Readiness assessment, training design, delivery, and sustainment.

05

Transformation Recovery & Reset Capability

Ability to detect drift, course-correct, and recover from setbacks.

Who this is for

Executives running real programs, calling before the trouble starts.

The diagnostic is calibrated to enterprise transformation programs at $5M+ budget, in ERP, HCM, finance, supply chain, or operational scope. It is most useful between board approval and end of build, when the structural calls are still revisable. We do not run it for programs in hypercare.

  • CIO
  • COO
  • CHRO
  • Head of PMO
  • Chief Transformation Officer

Two-minute qualification

Before we take payment, we confirm a few things in a short form: program type and phase, budget range, and your role. If the diagnostic is not calibrated to your program we will say so, and route you to something that is. About one in four respondents qualifies for the Standard tier on first try.

The analyst

Calibrated to ask the questions a senior partner would ask.

The Levelset analyst is a structured agent built on frontier reasoning models and instrumented against a published rubric. It does not have opinions of its own. It has a method drawn from field patterns across hundreds of ERP, HCM, and operational transformation programs, and a rubric calibrated to what separates programs that go live on time from those that do not.

Every score is anchored to specific things you said in the interview, cited verbatim under the finding. Every recommendation maps to a rubric line your team can re-read. Nothing in the report comes from a model "thinking it through." It comes from the rubric meeting your answers.

Pricing

One diagnostic. Two paths.

The diagnostic and report are identical. Enterprise adds a live analyst debrief and an executive summary tailored to your sponsor.

Standard

$12,500

One-time · per program


  • 25-minute structured interview
  • 14 to 18 page PDF report
  • Online dashboard with filters and 30/60/90 timeline
  • Report delivered to your Levelset dashboard
  • Shareable with your team and SI
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Enterprise

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Custom scope · annual options available


  • Everything in Standard
  • 45-minute live debrief with the reviewing analyst
  • Executive summary tailored to your CEO or sponsor
  • Priority delivery to your Levelset dashboard
  • Optional follow-up diagnostic in 90 days at 50% off
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Comparable consulting engagement: $25,000 to $60,000

The Levelset Guarantee

If it doesn't find three things you didn't already know, you don't pay.

If your diagnostic doesn't surface at least three specific, actionable findings you didn't already know about your program, you don't pay. We refund in full, no questions, and you keep the report. We can make this guarantee because in practice, this diagnostic regularly tells CIOs uncomfortable things they suspected but couldn't prove.

Why now

Every month of delay narrows the window to act.

The longer a program waits to confront an honest diagnosis, the smaller the window to hold scope, restructure, or reset before another slip. A repeated slip is expensive and the lost time does not come back, but the harder cost is the credibility leadership needs to make the calls a recovery requires. The cost of a Levelset diagnostic is $12,500.

We accept 25 Standard diagnostics per month to maintain methodology quality. 12 spots remaining for June.

Sample case study

A CIO at a $1.2B specialty foods manufacturer used Levelset 60 days before their SAP S/4HANA go-live. The diagnostic identified critical OCM resourcing gaps, sanitized governance reporting, and an unprepared workforce. The program was reset, key issues addressed, and the go-live was delayed 90 days deliberately rather than failing publicly. Estimated avoided cost: $3M to $5M.

Questions

What people ask before they start.

Have something we missed? Email hello@letslevelset.com and a human will respond within a business day.

Who is actually conducting the interview?+

A Levelset diagnostic analyst, built on frontier reasoning models and calibrated to a published rubric. It is not a chatbot and it does not improvise. Every probe, every score, every recommendation traces back to a rubric line. A Levelset human analyst reviews every report before delivery, and on the Enterprise tier they join the live debrief.

Our program is mid-build, not pre-kickoff. Still useful?+

Yes, through the end of build. The diagnostic gets sharper the more reality you have to grade against. We do not run it for programs in hypercare; at that point the relevant diagnostic is a different one we are building.

How is this different from a McKinsey or Accenture readiness review?+

Three ways. The rubric is published, so you can challenge any score. The deliverable goes directly to your Levelset dashboard, not into a consulting slide deck that takes weeks to produce. And the price is one to two orders of magnitude lower because the labor model is different. We are not a substitute for a 50-person change practice; we are the diagnostic that tells you whether you need one.

Who sees what we say in the interview?+

Only your account. Transcripts and reports are not used to train models and are not shared with anyone outside Levelset. We sign a one-page mutual NDA on request before the interview. Full privacy policy at letslevelset.com/privacy.

Can we share the report with our systems integrator?+

Yes. The report is yours. Many clients share it as the opening artifact at the next steering meeting; it tends to focus the conversation faster than a slide deck.

What if we score low?+

That is the point. The roadmap is sequenced so the first three things you do are the things that, if not done, would undermine everything else. A low score early is a gift; a low score the week before go-live is not.

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