Focused Value Sprint
A Focused Sprint. One High-Impact Problem. Measurable ROI in 90 Days.
For a specific, well-defined process problem. We scope a focused sprint that targets one high-impact area and delivers measurable ROI inside one quarter, with the option to scale into a broader program from there.
Used by municipalities, hospitals, mid-market businesses, and Canadian SMBs. Same engagement model, different scope and scale.
Our approach
How a Value Sprint runs
A tightly scoped sprint that moves from problem framing to deployed change inside one quarter. Embedded delivery, not a slide deck.
Frame
Stakeholder interviews, baseline data review, and a clear problem statement. We size the prize before scoping the work.
Diagnose
Process walk, value stream or workflow mapping for the target area, and root cause analysis. Hypotheses are tested with data, not opinion.
Redesign
Solution design with the team that owns the work. Quick-win identification, standard work, and pilot scope.
Deploy
Pilot, measure, adjust, and scale to full target area. Handover with a control plan and KPIs your team owns going forward.
Sprints come in two focuses
One engagement model. Two kinds of work it does best.
Process Sprints
Workflow redesign, lead-time reduction, capacity recovery, and process improvement. Best when the problem is human, procedural, or organizational, not technological.
Used by municipalities, hospitals, manufacturers, and service businesses.
See Process Sprints →AI & Digital Sprints
Custom AI agents and intelligent automation for finance, sales, compliance, and case management. Best when the problem is repetitive, high-volume, or rules-based, and ready to be handled by software.
Used by Canadian mid-market businesses and SMBs.
See AI Sprints →Client work
Real work. Real businesses. Real returns.
Each of these is a Sprint we have shipped. Different sectors, different scope, same principle: a defined outcome, delivered on a fixed timeline.
Receivables Automation
Recovering aged receivables on autopilot
A Canadian claims advisory firm carried millions in active receivables across multiple categories, with inconsistent manual follow-up letting invoices age past 60, 90, and 120 days. We built an automated reminder system on top of the firm's existing case management platform with eight templated cadences keyed to invoice age and client group.
Aged invoice exposure dropped materially in the first quarter live. Collections time redeployed to higher-value work.
Document QC Agent
Catching errors before reports go out
A regulated services firm produced detailed client reports as the final output of every case file. External part-time reviewers cost roughly $50 per file for the final QC pass, and turnaround often lagged delivery deadlines. We built a Copilot-based QC agent that runs against finalized reports and surfaces grammatical, contextual, gender, and consistency issues in a side panel for the reviewer to action.
QC cost per file dropped from $50 to near zero. Reviewer time compressed to minutes.
Compliance Redaction Agent
Compliance protection that pays for itself
Case managers at a regulated services firm spent 40 minutes per file manually redacting Social Insurance Numbers and other PII from tax documents and government correspondence. The work was tedious, error-prone, and carried real PIPEDA exposure. We deployed a redaction agent that identifies and applies clean redactions automatically.
40 minutes per file recovered. Significant case-manager time redirected to client work each month, with structural reduction in PIPEDA risk.
Multi-Agent Lead Pipeline
From form fill to personalized response in minutes
A new business valuation advisory practice needed inbound form fills converted into qualified conversations within hours. We built a multi-agent pipeline: a cost-effective LLM generates a qualification summary, a more capable LLM drafts a personalized first-touch email tailored to the prospect's stated reason and timeline, and the lead routes to CRM with status flags.
Every inbound lead receives a personalized, sector-relevant response within minutes. Live and feeding the pipeline.
Month-End Close Agent
Compressing the monthly close cycle
A Canadian advisory firm closed its books monthly using a structured Excel template fed by a general ledger export. The close took several days and depended on individual knowledge of the GL data. We built an LLM-powered close template: the user pastes in the export, the model returns categorized close instructions, flag-for-review items, and draft variance notes.
Close cycle compressed materially. Junior finance staff can now run the first pass. Management reporting arrives in days instead of weeks.
Multi-Agent Intake & Routing
Right file, right person, in minutes
A Canadian advisory firm received new client referrals through a web form. Intake was a manual queue, referrals piled up overnight, and assignment depended on whichever team lead opened the form first. We built two coordinated automation flows: the first validates and tags intake fields, the second routes the referral to the right case manager based on capacity, specialization, and rules.
Time-to-first-touch dropped sharply. Workload distributes evenly. The team lead is no longer the routing bottleneck.
Procurement Intelligence Agent
A daily edge on procurement intelligence
A Canadian consulting firm responding to public-sector tenders needed to track every relevant procurement opportunity across federal, provincial, and municipal sources, plus three subscription aggregator email feeds. We built a daily intelligence brief: scrapers monitor public portals, an inbox-digest workflow extracts and de-duplicates aggregator opportunities, and an LLM compiles a single morning summary delivered before 8AM.
Leadership starts the day with a complete view of the procurement landscape in 5 minutes instead of 60. Win-rate on time-sensitive tenders improved.
Industry Intelligence Agent
Every morning briefing, automatically compiled
A Canadian legal services firm tracked case law developments, insurance advisories, and regulatory guidance across multiple publication sources. Senior staff spent time each morning manually reviewing portals and email digests, with coverage gaps and duplicated items across feeds. We built a daily intelligence agent that monitors relevant sources, extracts and de-duplicates new items overnight, and delivers a single categorized brief to leadership and technical experts each morning.
Leadership and technical experts fully briefed on all relevant developments in under 10 minutes daily. No source missed, no manual scanning required.
HR & Workplace Insurance Claims
Regional Municipality
Rising WSIB claims costs from incomplete reporting, weak supervisor accountability, and a paper-based process. Value stream mapping showed 98% non-value-added time across a 60 to 144 day lead time. We mapped the claims process, redesigned with mandatory electronic incident reporting and supervisor accountability framework, and tied departmental cost ownership to performance management routines.
31% improvement in value-added time and 10% lead time reduction inside the sprint window.
New Hire Process End-to-End
Large Urban Hospital
A Lean review across 6 process areas (requisition through first pay) found fragmented HR and hiring manager ownership, no standard workflows, and multi-step approval delays. Cross-functional Lean review with HR and hiring manager input. 9 team-led improvements deployed and 4 strategic consulting recommendations issued.
Streamlined approvals, 2-week posting cycles, clear stage ownership, consolidated offer templates. Ideal-state roadmap with integrated ATS, position control, payroll, automated offers, and single-source governance.
Lean Capability Building
Town of Gravenhurst
Multi-year Lean training program for municipal staff with Green Belt projects focused on operational efficiency across town departments.
$450K documented savings over 2 years. 4,407 annual hours freed up.
Pharmacy Inventory Optimization
Lakeridge Health
Hospital pharmacy inventory optimization through centralized purchasing and lean inventory management.
26% reduction in pharmacy inventory costs ($3.8M to $2.8M). $274K inventory reduction. $132K acquisition cost avoidance. $119K savings from centralized purchasing.
Pre-Anaesthesia Clinic Capacity
Ontario Hospital
Pre-anaesthesia clinic capacity optimization to enable more elective surgeries within existing infrastructure.
Surgery capacity increased from 91 to 126 slots (38% increase). 100% of surgical patients assessed (up from approximately 45%). $22,700 revenue increase year over year.
Child Care Billing Improvement
Ontario Municipality
Child care billing lead time reduction and accuracy improvement, addressing overpayments and incorrect submissions.
$512K annual time-value savings. 63% reduction in billing lead time. 88% drop in incorrect NOA submissions. Overpayments reduced from $7,000 plus to zero.
Fleet Operations Review
City of Kitchener
Fleet downtime review establishing baseline availability and identifying improvement opportunities across fleet asset management.
96.46% fleet uptime baseline established. 10% improvement opportunity yielding $190,195 increase in daily fleet asset availability value. 3,792 annual productivity hours saved.
Discharge Planning & ALC Care Model
Brightshores Health System
Lean healthcare consulting on discharge planning and Alternate Level of Care patient model of care across multiple hospital sites.
Bed turnovers decreased from average of 4 days to 2.25 days. Standardized ALC patient identification and designation. Metrics reporting volume reduced by 75%.
Falls Prevention & Purposeful Rounding
Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
Black Belt project focused on falls prevention and purposeful rounding implementation across multiple inpatient units.
41% drop in corporate rate of falls with harm. 42%, 27%, and 31% reduction in call bells per day across three units.
Every business has its own version of these. Tell us where yours hurts.
Talk to us about a Sprint →Sprint sizing
Most Sprints fall in the $15K to $85K range, fixed fee, scoped at kickoff. Combined Sprints, two or three connected workstreams under one outcome metric, typically range $100K to $175K.
Larger engagements with municipalities, hospitals, and multi-site institutional clients are scoped through proposal and procurement. Same engagement model, scaled to the work.
Who this is for
Is this the right fit?
Operations Leaders with a Specific Problem
You have one process that is underperforming. You know roughly where the issue is. You want it fixed inside a quarter, not studied for two.
Teams Considering a Larger Program
You are evaluating broader transformation but want to test the partnership and prove ROI on a single area first.
PE Operating Partners
Portfolio company has a known operational drag. You need a focused intervention that delivers visible improvement in 90 days.
FAQ
Common questions
Sprints are fixed scope. If new work emerges during the build, we capture it as a follow-on Sprint with its own scope and fee. The current Sprint protects its committed timeline.
Every Sprint has a Day 0 success metric. If we don't hit it by the agreed date, we keep working at no additional cost until we do. We don't take Sprints we don't believe will hit.
Yes. We have delivered Sprints for municipalities, regional health authorities, and provincial agencies. We are familiar with vendor-of-record arrangements, RFP and RFQ procurement, and procurement-compliant scoping.
Yes. Code, workflows, documentation, data, all yours. Designed so your team can operate and extend it without us.
Yes. The most common patterns we see are one Process Sprint and one AI Sprint running together, or two Process Sprints across different functions.
Many Sprints qualify for Canadian funding programs. Canada Job Grant, IRAP, regional innovation grants for private clients. Capacity-building and modernization funds for public-sector clients. We scope to maximize eligibility. Learn more →
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