Cherrystone
How we work

Two ways in. One question first.

Tell us what you are trying to improve or decide. We say which path fits, what it would show you, and what it costs to find out. Each step is a separate decision; none commits you to the next.

01 The routes

From one question, two routes.

Consulting

A scoped engagement

A mapping, an analysis or an improvement programme, scoped from your question. Fixed scope and a written proposal before any work; written findings at the end; your people involved throughout; nothing to license when it ends. The four services →

Scope

The question, the operation, the people, the documents we will read. One page, agreed.

Work

Mapping, measurement and analysis with the people who do the work, logging what disagrees.

Findings

Read with you, written down, ending in a decision with its reason.

Ipso

From a sketch to a package you keep using

1 · Studio

A free sketch from a short guided brief on the Ipso site, or a 90-minute facilitated session with us. Every number starts as a placeholder or an assumption, and says so.

2 · Sprint

Three weeks, fixed scope, per company and value stream. We read your documents and systems, log where they disagree, turn assumptions into documented and measured numbers, and read the findings with you. A year of Ipso Live is included.

3 · Live and re-snap

Your people record what they observe; the package re-derives. A re-snap refreshes the numbers, re-reads the disagreements and re-issues the decisions with us.

A responsive model, not a live feed: the package recalculates when a number changes; it is not connected to your business systems. A monthly workbook refresh is the interim. Prices and terms live in one place, on the Ipso site ↗.

02 Portfolios

If you hold several companies.

The same package runs in each company and the issued decisions sit on one verdict board, grouped by threshold rather than ranked. We start with one company and one decision; the portfolio comes after the first finding. Holders and operating partners: the partner page on the Ipso site ↗.

FirstOne company

A sketch or a Sprint on the company with the clearest question.

ThenOne decision

Read with the operator and the holder in the same room.

ThenThe pattern

Which companies share the constraint; which don't.

ThenThe board

Every company's verbs on one screen, tiered, with reasons.

03 What stays true

Three things we hold to on every engagement.

Derived, never stored

Every figure is calculated from the parameters when it is looked at, and prints its own check.

Break it before you believe it

Disagreements between documents, systems and people are logged, not silently fixed.

Your numbers stay yours

Documents stay in your workspace; each upload gets a receipt; nothing derived is stored.