The model

One model. No theater.

No tiers, no seats, no surprise scope. The work is shaped to the move, and you see cost and impact, ranked, before you commit to anything.

A notebook, pen and laptop laid out on a clean desk

Priced to the move

Not headcount, not hours, not a retainer for the sake of a retainer. The work is shaped to what the diagnosis names.

Ranked before you commit

Every recommendation arrives as a list with cost and impact, in order. You choose eyes-open, or you don't.

Built to end

Your team learns the method while we work. After the ship, we drop to quarterly checkpoints, not a monthly invoice.

Included in every engagement

There is no premium tier where the real service starts. Everyone gets the whole thing.

  • The first hour, free, no prep required
  • A one-page diagnosis in plain words
  • A ranked move list with cost + impact
  • Weekly 90-minute working cadence
  • A Talk Circles room with operators who've been there
  • A shipped artifact every month, not a status deck
  • The same operators, start to finish
  • Quarterly checkpoints after the ship
Siddiqui Rum bottles, a real artifact we designed and shipped
How it runs

Five phases, walked in order

Mount Shasta above the lake, the long view we work from
00

Stuck

60 min · free

One unhurried conversation. We read where you actually are and hand you a one-page diagnosis. Yours to keep either way.

01

Talk it out

Weekly

A 90-minute cadence with the Talk Circles conversation layer behind it. Shared vocabulary before shared work.

02

Find the knot

1 to 2 weeks

We walk the five lenses (brand, product, operations, people, money) and run cheap-to-prove experiments before anything expensive.

03

Ship together

60 to 180 days

Operators at the file within 72 hours. A real artifact ships every month, and your team learns the method as it does.

04

Keep moving

Quarterly

Checkpoints, not dependence. We stay on call for the hard decisions. Same hands, whenever you need them.

Fair questions

Asked plainly, answered plainly.

It depends on the move, and we'd be guessing to say otherwise before the diagnosis. What we can promise: you'll see every recommended move ranked by cost and impact before you commit a dollar, and the first hour costs nothing.

Because a price list is a menu, and a menu makes you order. Half the businesses we talk to arrive asking for the wrong thing: a rebrand when the knot is operations, a new site when the knot is pricing. Naming the real move first is the whole point, and a number on a page can't do that.

Then that's what we'll tell you in the free hour, and we'll scope exactly that. Nobody gets upsold into a journey they don't need. If one clean deliverable is the whole job, we ship it and we're done.

Say so early. It shapes the work instead of ending the conversation. The ranked move list exists for exactly this: we put the highest-impact, lowest-cost moves at the top so a smaller budget still buys a real result. We'd rather do one thing that matters than pad a scope you can't afford.

The first conversation can happen this week, and once you say yes to a move, operators are at the file within 72 hours. From there a real artifact ships every month, not a status deck. An actual thing you can use. We ship, we don't deck.

Every project gets a technology read before we pick a single tool. We use AI where it genuinely makes the work faster or sharper, and leave it out where a human hand is the point. When AI removes real hours, that shows up in the scope and the price; we never add it just to pad a number, and you can opt out of AI entirely. You can read the whole approach at /ai.

The first conversation can happen this week. Once you say yes to a move, operators are at the file within 72 hours. The same people who ran the diagnosis, not a handoff to a team you've never met.

Often, yes. The five lenses (brand, product, operations, people, money) are the same wherever the business lives, so a knot in one industry usually looks familiar from another. If it's genuinely not a fit, we'll say so in the free hour rather than take work we can't do well.

Say so, and you say it to the same people doing the work, because there's nobody else. Engagements are shaped move by move, so stopping is a conversation, not a contract dispute. No lock-in, no cancellation theater.

We drop to quarterly checkpoints instead of a monthly invoice. Your team learns the method while we work, so by the end you can run the play without us. And we stay on call, same hands, for the hard decisions.

No. No pitch team, no account layer, no theater. Unstuck is an arm of Talk Circles. Operators who name what's stuck and walk the next move with you, the same hands start to finish.