Focused Value Sprint
A Focused Sprint. One High-Impact Problem. A Validated Plan and the Capability to Deliver It.
For a specific, well-defined operational problem. We run a fixed-scope sprint that validates the opportunity, diagnoses the root cause, designs the solution with your team, and supports implementation through structured coaching. The result is a sized business case, a sixty to ninety day execution plan with a named Initiative Owner, and the Lean Six Sigma capability built into your team to deliver it. Where extended hands-on execution support is helpful, we can scope it as a separate engagement. Every Sprint carries a Day 0 success metric; if we miss it, we keep working at no extra cost until we hit it.
Used by municipalities, hospitals, mid-market businesses, and SMBs. Same engagement model, different scope and scale.
Quick answers
How long does a Focused Value Sprint take?
A Sprint runs in two parts. Prep takes about 2 to 6 weeks to frame the problem, size the prize and build the business case with your named Initiative Owner. Execute takes about 8 to 12 weeks, running on a cadence with quick wins first, through pilot and handover with a control plan.
Who does the work in a Sprint?
Your team does, with our structure and coaching. A named Initiative Owner from your organization leads the work and earns a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt along the way. We bring the methodology, the cadence and the coaching, then hand over standard work, a control plan and the KPIs, so the result holds after we leave.
Our approach
How a Value Sprint runs
A fixed-scope sprint that runs in two parts, Prep then Execute, with capability and change engrained throughout. Your team owns delivery; we provide the structure, methodology, and coaching cadence to get it done.
Prep
We frame the problem, size the prize, and diagnose root cause with data, not opinion: stakeholder interviews, baseline review, and process or workflow mapping of the target area. From there we co-create the business case and KPI-linked impact plan with your named Initiative Owner, and their Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training begins.
Execute
We run on a cadence, quick wins first. The redesign is piloted with your team owning the work, refined through structured coaching, and handed over with a control plan and the KPIs that matter. We confirm the value actually flows, not just on paper, and the Initiative Owner earns their Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
Engrain, throughout: capability and change management are built into the Sprint from day one, not bolted on at the end, so the improvement holds and your team can run and extend it after we leave.
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 mid-market businesses and SMBs.
Unlike Process Sprints, AI & Digital Sprints are built and deployed by LEA end-to-end, with knowledge transfer to your team for ongoing operation.
See AI Sprints →Client work
Real work. Real businesses. Real returns.
Each of these is a Sprint we have shipped, part of 90+ engagements delivered. Different sectors, different scope, same principle: a defined outcome, delivered on a fixed timeline.
Receivables Automation
Recovering aged receivables with approved rules and AI checks
A professional services firm carried several hundred open invoices across different collection situations, with follow-up that depended on manual effort and let invoices age past 120 days. We built a receivables assistant on the firm's existing platforms: six message types with approved wording across eleven collection groups, one combined statement per payer, and AI that checks the system every day.
Eleven collection groups now run on their own cadence with approved wording, and every run is checked against the forecast daily.
Read the case →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.
5,192 hours of capacity a year and $758,902 in savings identified over 3 years; 22 Green Belts on 16 projects (Town Report ADM 2024-01, March 2024).
Pharmacy Inventory Optimization
A hospital
A redesign of how the hospital pharmacy manages inventory, built on a centralized purchasing model.
Inventory cost down 26%.
Fleet Operations Review
City of Kitchener
Fleet downtime review establishing baseline availability and identifying improvement opportunities across fleet asset management.
10% less downtime, worth $190,195 a day in fleet asset availability; 3,792 hours of operator time a year.
Discharge Planning & ALC Care Model
A regional 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
A community hospital
Falls prevention and purposeful rounding, led by the client's Black Belt candidate, coached by LEA.
Falls with harm down 41%; call bells down 27% to 42% on three units.
Every business has its own version of these. Tell us where yours hurts.
Talk to us about a Sprint →Investment
Sprint sizing
A Focused Value Sprint is a fixed fee set at scoping, typically $15,000 to $85,000 depending on scope. The fee covers validation, diagnosis, design, and the coaching cadence through pilot and handover.
Scale comes as a Program of Sprints, a portfolio of Sprints on one cadence: start small, prove the return, expand on evidence. 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. Where ongoing execution support is needed beyond the Sprint, it can be scoped as a separate engagement.
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.
For Canadian clients, many Sprints qualify for COJG, IRAP, and regional innovation grants for private clients, plus capacity-building and modernization funds for public-sector clients. For US clients, engagements can be structured against professional services or training budgets. We scope to maximize eligibility either way. Learn more →
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