You shouldn't have to ask how your initiative is going.
Engage Crucible to lead your strategic initiative — run with governance you can see: a health-lit digest in your inbox, every steering decision on the record, and a charter that cannot drift silently.
You're accountable for the initiative, and all you get is a deck the night before.
Most initiatives are experienced as silence punctuated by slide decks. Status is assembled hours before the steering meeting, the guidance you give in that room lives in nobody's system, and scope changes surface months later as budget surprises. You end up sponsoring an outcome you cannot see into — and answering for it anyway.
The finding first. Then the evidence. Then the move.
Charter, on the record
We run ideation and steering to a signed charter — scope, budget, target — held in a system of record. Any later change appears as a dated, attributed delta tied to the decision that authorized it. Scope creep is never silent.
Decisions become records
Every approval and every piece of steering guidance is captured with a name and a date — you respond with one tap from your inbox, no login, no new tool. "Did we already agree to this?" takes seconds, not archaeology.
Health you don't have to ask for
You receive a digest with a traffic light derived from gate timeliness and open decisions — computed from the actual state of the work, never set by hand. When something breaches, the exception reaches you without waiting for the next meeting.
Your words, kept
Guidance given at one touchpoint is echoed at the next, with what was done about it. The engagement closes with a complete decision history — durable evidence of how the initiative was actually governed.
One standard, however you start.
Priced per engagement and quoted as a program — never per seat, never per hour. Two ways in: found the initiative properly with a Charter Sprint, or run the whole thing on Essentials, where a six-month program comes to $45,000. Sponsors and steering members are your own executives and are always unlimited; the governance is identical either way. Running several initiatives at once is a portfolio engagement — ask.
Charter Sprint
Get it founded before you commit.
For sponsors who want the initiative properly chartered — scope, roles, timeline — before committing to a program.
- Guided charter to signature: scope with an explicit out-of-scope, goals with numbers, roles by name
- Steering committee named and seated
- A back-planned timeline your committee acknowledges, dated as gates at approval
- The first governed update in your sponsors' inboxes
- Ends with a governed initiative — whether or not you continue
- Half the fee credits against your first Essentials invoice if you continue within 30 days
Essentials
Crucible governs. Your team delivers.
For sponsors running one initiative that has to land, with governance the whole committee can see.
- Monthly steering support — roughly one advisor day a month
- Workshops captured and consolidated into a discovery recap
- A workstream plan proposed, then approved by your committee before it activates
- Weekly check-ins that compose themselves into the sponsor's update
- Health computed from gate timeliness and open decisions — never asserted
- Unlimited sponsors and steering members, on every tier
- The complete decision history, yours at close