Program stability
In the last 30 days, has the situation gotten better, stayed the same, or continued getting worse?
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A structured diagnostic for CIOs, COOs, and sponsors running programs that are stalled, failing, or in declared recovery. Six recovery pillars scored. PDF delivered in under 60 seconds.
$9,500 · 30 min
What you will know
Every finding is anchored to something you said in the interview, cited verbatim. Nothing is generated from a model's assumptions.
Whether the program has genuinely stabilized or is still deteriorating, scored against behavioral evidence, not leadership's official position.
Whether governance is calibrated for recovery speed, or whether the decision structure that let the program fail is still intact.
Where leadership credibility stands with the workforce and whether trust damage is recoverable at the current pace.
Whether scope is locked and defended or still being renegotiated by stakeholders who feel their requirements were sacrificed.
A prioritized recovery roadmap: three to five specific actions, sequenced by impact, with a 30/60/90 cadence built for an executive in triage.
The 25 minutes
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.
0:00
~3 min
Setup and orientation.
Confirm the program type, how long it has been in trouble, and the lead's role. Establish what "recovered" means to your CFO and your board before scoring starts.
3:00
~5 min
Pillar 01
Program stability.
Whether deterioration has stopped, whether the true scope of damage is known, and whether the SI and the program team share the same read on current state.
8:00
~5 min
Pillar 02
Governance and decision velocity.
Whether the steering committee adapted to recovery speed, who can break a tie between the program team and the SI, and what decisions are sitting in queue right now.
Questions you will hear
These are the openers. The follow-ups are calibrated to your answers and the rubric, so the conversation goes where the signal is.
Program stability
In the last 30 days, has the situation gotten better, stayed the same, or continued getting worse?
Governance
Walk me through the last high-stakes decision the steering committee made. How long from identification to final decision?
Leadership
Which members of the original program leadership are still in their roles? Has there been any accountability visible enough for the workforce to register?
Scope
What was explicitly cut from scope that stakeholders are still fighting to put back?
The deliverable
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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Where the program is exposed.
The program is operationally well-run but exposed on the human side. Change-management ownership is unassigned past the CIO. Communications cadence does not match…
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The pillars assessed
Program Stability
Whether the program has stabilized enough to be recoverable. Assesses whether active deterioration has stopped, whether the true scope of damage is known, and whether a defensible recovery baseline exists. Unstable programs generate new problems faster than they can be solved, making any recovery plan obsolete before it starts.
Governance and Decision Velocity
Whether the decision-making structure is calibrated for recovery speed. Recovery requires decisions in days, not weeks. This pillar distinguishes between governance that was adequate for a healthy transformation and governance that can actually move fast enough to execute a recovery before conditions worsen further.
Leadership Confidence and Trust
Whether the workforce believes in the people leading the recovery. Burned trust is the hardest recovery asset to rebuild. This pillar assesses whether leadership has earned the credibility to ask a damaged team to execute under compressed conditions, and whether the human signals that predict execution quality are present or absent.
Scope and Priority Stability
Whether the recovery has a locked, defended scope and a leadership team willing to hold it. Recovery programs fail as often from scope instability as from execution failure. Every stakeholder group that feels their original requirements were sacrificed will fight to add them back. This pillar assesses whether scope is a managed boundary or a negotiation in progress.
Workforce Readiness and Morale
Whether the people expected to execute the recovery are still capable of doing so. Recovery requires a team to execute under conditions that would exhaust a fresh workforce: compressed timelines, public scrutiny, and the lingering damage from having already been through a failing program. This pillar assesses staffing gaps, flight risk, change fatigue, and whether the human capital required for recovery is still present.
Recovery Readiness
Whether the leaders running this recovery understand that recovery is a different leadership motion than transformation, and whether they have the capability and external perspective to execute it. The leaders who built the original program are often not the right leaders to recover it. This is the meta-pillar: it assesses whether the organization knows what it does not know about what a successful recovery actually requires.
Who this is for
Calibrated for programs that have been formally declared in recovery, programs that should be but have not been yet, and executives who just inherited a troubled transformation and need an independent read within the first 90 days. Not useful for healthy programs or programs in early-stage planning.
Two-minute qualification
We confirm a few basics in a short qualifier: the program's current state, your role, and the estimated sunk cost. If this diagnostic is not the right instrument, we will say so before you pay.
The analyst
The Levelset recovery specialist is a structured agent built on frontier reasoning models and calibrated against six recovery-specific pillars. It is not assessing transformation health. It is assessing whether this program, at its current state of damage, can be turned around. The rubric was built from patterns across programs that recovered and programs that were cancelled.
Every score is anchored to specific things you said in the interview, cited verbatim under the finding. Every recommendation maps to a rubric line. The report does not hedge. If the diagnostic finds the program is not recoverable at current funding, governance, or staffing levels, the report says so directly.
Pricing
The diagnostic and report are identical. Enterprise adds a live analyst debrief and an executive summary tailored to your sponsor.
Standard
$9,500
One-time · per program
Enterprise
Contact us
Custom scope · annual options available
Comparable consulting engagement: $25,000 to $60,000
The Levelset Guarantee
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
The hardest part of recovery is not the technical work. It is the 60 to 90 day window after the recovery is declared when leadership credibility is still high enough to make hard calls. Programs that delay honest diagnosis in that window often find, 90 days later, that the political capital needed to hold scope or change team structure is gone. The cost of a Levelset diagnostic is $9,500.
We accept 25 Standard diagnostics per month to maintain methodology quality. 12 spots remaining for June.
Questions
Have something we missed? Email hello@letslevelset.com and a human will respond within a business day.
CIOs, COOs, executive sponsors, and program directors running a transformation that has formally stalled, been declared in recovery, or is heading there. Also useful for executives who just inherited a troubled program and need an independent read before their first 90 days are up.
The diagnostic is most useful in the first 90 days of declared recovery but remains valuable later. The further into recovery you are, the more the report shifts from what to do next to whether the current trajectory is actually recoverable.
The Transformation Diagnostic scores a running program against a healthy-program rubric. This diagnostic is calibrated specifically for programs in active trouble: different pillars, different questions, different output. It is asking a different question. Not how healthy is this program, but can it be saved.
If the evidence points that direction, yes. The report does not soften that finding. Cancellation with controlled wind-down is a legitimate recovery outcome, and the diagnostic will say so if that is where the scores land.
Yes. The PDF includes an executive summary formatted for a board read. It is designed to be shared.
The Levelset Guarantee applies here too. If the diagnostic doesn't surface at least three specific findings you didn't already know, you don't pay. We refund in full and you keep the report.
Ready when you are
Takes 25 minutes. Your report is delivered to your Levelset dashboard.