Your workshop, expertly designed in 48 hours
You have a session that has to work, and no time to design it properly. We build the complete runbook — the arc, the timings, the words to say, and what to do when it goes sideways. You run the room.
Fixed price, published below. Delivered 48 hours after the intake call.
The situation
You did not plan to become the facilitator
Someone has to run the offsite. It landed on you, because it is your team, your budget, or your problem. You are good at your job. Designing a day that moves twelve opinionated people to one decision is not your job.
So you build an agenda in a document the night before. It lists topics and times. It does not tell you what to say when the VP of Sales talks for eleven minutes, or what to do when the room agrees in the meeting and unpicks it by email on Thursday.
The failure is rarely the content. It is the design: the wrong sequence, no time protected for the actual decision, and no plan for the three moments most likely to go wrong.
What you receive
A complete runbook, not an agenda
One branded PDF, written for your room. Everything below is in every tier.
The design rationale
Why the session is shaped this way. The arc, the sequence, and the reasoning behind each decision, so you can defend the plan to whoever asks.
The minute-by-minute agenda
Every block with real timings, including transitions and breaks. Built against your actual start and stop times, not a template.
Facilitator scripts
What to say, worded for your room. Opening, framing for each activity, the questions to ask, and how to close on a decision.
Contingency branching
What to do when it does not go to plan. Written against the specific risks in your room and named to your people, not generic advice about low energy.
The control sheet
One page you hold while you run the session. Timeline, the three things to protect, the phrases that work, and the contingencies at a glance.
Materials and setup
What to buy, what to print, how to set the room, and how to form groups for each activity.
The outcomes review
After the session, send us what it produced. We review it against the objectives and return what landed, what is missing, and what to do next.
How it works
Four steps, and only one of them is yours
- 01
Tell us
A twenty-minute call. What the session has to produce, who is in the room, what has already been tried, and what you are worried about.
- 02
We diagnose
We work out what the session actually has to do, which is often not what the agenda says. Stated objectives, individual needs, and the tensions nobody has named.
- 03
We design
A complete runbook: the arc, the timings, the scripts, the contingencies, and the control sheet. Delivered as a branded PDF within 48 hours.
- 04
You lead
You run the session. Afterwards, send us what it produced and we review it against the objectives: what landed, what is missing, what to do next.
The 48 hours starts when the intake call ends, not when you pay. The call is the input, so the work cannot begin before it.
The argument
You keep the room
When an outside facilitator runs the room, the team reads it as the leader stepping back.
You have handed the relationship, the authorship and the credit to a person who leaves at five.
The expertise is in the design. Knowing that the groan zone needs protecting, that a decision made at 4:45pm will not hold, that the quietest person in the room is the one whose disagreement will surface in six weeks. That work happens before anyone walks in.
Leading the room is the part that should be you. Your team should watch you run a session that works.
Honest comparisons
What else you could do
Why not a template
A template does not know that your VP of Sales talks first and talks longest, or that two of the projects on the table belong to the person running the room. Templates give you activities. What you need is a sequence built for the specific decision your group has to reach.
Why not a generic AI agenda
You can generate a plausible agenda in seconds. It will be plausible and it will be generic, because it has not asked you anything. It will not catch that your last two attempts at this decision collapsed, or that the real disagreement is about criteria rather than options. We start with a diagnostic conversation for that reason.
Why not a facilitator
Because you keep the room. An external facilitator takes the authorship, the relationship, and the credit, and signals that you could not do it yourself. Design is the part that needs the expertise. Leading it is the part that should be you.
Pricing
Published, fixed, and the same for everyone
Nobody in this category publishes a price. We do, because you should be able to decide without a sales call.
Single Objective
One session, one decision.
$995
Fixed. One revision included.
For the meeting that has to produce one clear outcome. A single objective, a room that has to agree, and no time to recover if the first activity does not land.
- Diagnostic call and written brief of what the session must achieve
- Minute-by-minute agenda with timings and transitions
- Facilitator scripts, worded for your room
- Contingency branches for the moments most likely to go wrong
- One-page control sheet to hold while you run it
- Outcomes review after the session
Designed for a session of up to two hours.
Workshop Day
A full working day, designed end to end.
$1,495
Fixed. One revision included.
For the offsite or away day where several things have to happen in sequence, and where losing the room after lunch costs you the afternoon.
- Everything in Single Objective
- Full-day arc with energy management across the whole session
- Break and transition design, including the post-lunch recovery
- Group formation guidance for every activity
- Materials and room setup checklist
- Contingency branches for each block, named to your people
Designed for a half day or full day, including breaks and energy management.
High-Stakes
When the session carries real consequence.
From $2,995
Quoted after a fit-check call.
For the decision that will be relitigated if it goes badly. Restructures, portfolio cuts, merger integration, and any room where the person leading it has a stake in the outcome.
- Everything in Workshop Day
- Stakeholder mapping across official, individual, and unspoken objectives
- Neutrality design when the person leading has a stake in the outcome
- Escalation branches for conflict, dominance, and withdrawal
- Multi-day arc design where the work spans sessions
- Rehearsal call included
Multi-day programs, board-level sessions, and rooms with known conflict.
Add-ons
Live walkthrough and rehearsal call
$250Forty-five minutes. We walk the runbook together, rehearse the moments you are least sure about, and adjust anything that does not fit how you actually speak.
Additional revision
$150One revision is included in every tier. This is for when the session changes again after that.
Terms, plainly
What we commit to, and what we do not
- The 48 hours starts when the intake call ends, not when you pay.
- This is design only. Facilitation is a separate engagement, quoted separately.
- A significant change of scope is re-quoted, and the clock resets.
- If we are waiting on you, the deadline moves by the length of the wait.
- Work with legal exposure or a predetermined outcome may be declined or upgraded.
- What you tell us stays confidential. No client names appear anywhere.
Questions
Before you buy
Founded by a consumer insights and strategy consultant with 18 years of experience designing and running workshops for Fortune 500 food, beverage, and consumer goods companies.
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