Pick one problem. Get the answer in 25 days, for a fixed fee agreed before we start.
Three fixed-fee sprints, each a focused diagnosis of one revenue or AI problem, staffed by senior operators who have been there before.
For sponsors, two fixed-fee 75-day engagements, one to bring go-to-market to full speed before a sale and one for the first 75 days after a sale close.
Every engagement starts with a diagnosis. A sprint is the fastest one.
You know the problem
Run a sprint. One issue, a fixed fee, 25 days.
You don't know it yet
Start with the 30-day audit. It covers the whole business and ranks the constraints by impact on EBITDA.
Either way
Both can feed a board-ready Value Creation Plan by day 75, with the sprint fee credited toward it.
Buy one sprint and judge us on it.
Most firms make you buy the whole program before you find out whether they are any good. We would rather earn the second engagement with the first one.
One-page statement of work
Short enough to sign without a procurement cycle. If your company needs its own paper, we work from it.
Fixed fee, agreed up front
Set out in the statement of work before you sign. No hourly meter. Scope is the listed deliverables, and anything beyond them is quoted before we start.
Kickoff within five days
Of signature, on a start date we confirm before you sign.
Readout guarantee
If the readout does not give you at least three quantified actions your team accepts as worth doing, we waive half the fee.
Senior operators lead and do the work
The people on the kickoff call stay through the readout.
Fee credited if you continue
Sign follow-on work within 60 days of the readout and the sprint fee is credited, up to half of the follow-on fees.
Three sprints and two 75-day engagements
Each one targets a problem that is costing you revenue, margin or credibility with the board.
AI to ROI Sprint
AI ROI assessment
Fixed fee, 25 days
A calculated return on every AI investment, and a clear call on what to scale, fix or stop.
The problem. AI spend is spread across licenses, API bills and expense reports, usage is being mistaken for value, and nobody measured the starting point. Now the CFO wants to know what it returned.
Built for. CFOs, CEOs and operating partners with AI licenses, agents or pilots already live, or an AI budget request headed to the board.
What you walk away with
Inventory of every AI dollar, licensed, metered and expensed, matched to who actually uses it by team, tool and agent
Baseline of throughput, cycle time and cost for up to three priority workflows, built from your own system data and compared with published benchmarks where they exist
Calculated ROI and cost per unit of AI work for each live investment, with every assumption shown so finance can check it
Business case for the next use cases, each tied to one KPI, with a payback window and kill criteria agreed with finance
AI value scorecard and a scale, fix or stop call on each investment, with a named owner for every number, ready for the board
Covers up to three workflows. We need read access to AI vendor invoices and admin consoles, API and cloud billing, card and expense data, and the systems where each workflow's work is recorded.
Find out how much of the pipeline is real, and forecast from that.
The problem. The forecast misses, pipeline coverage looks fine on paper, and the CRM does not show what sellers are actually doing. Now the board is asking which number to believe.
Built for. CROs and CEOs who have stopped trusting the number, and sponsors who need a forecast they can underwrite.
What you walk away with
Deal-level audit of open pipeline by stage, source, segment and seller
Forecast accuracy baseline for the last four quarters, with where the variance came from
CRM activity and data capture gaps, ranked by how much they distort the forecast
Rewritten stage entry and exit rules tied to buyer evidence, not seller optimism
Forecast call cadence and a 90-day pipeline remediation plan
Covers the last four quarters of forecast history and the current open pipeline for one sales organization. We need read access to the CRM, won-lost notes, and the forecast submissions for each of those quarters.
Retention and Expansion Sprint
Net revenue retention and churn diagnostic
Fixed fee, 25 days
Stop the churn you can see coming, then sell more to the customers you keep.
The problem. Net revenue retention is slipping, churn shows up as a surprise at renewal, and expansion depends on who happens to own the account. Now the board wants to know why nobody saw it coming.
Built for. CROs, CEOs and customer success leaders at recurring-revenue businesses, where the installed base drives most of enterprise value.
What you walk away with
Gross and net revenue retention baseline by segment, cohort and product
Root causes of churn and contraction, from your customer data and up to ten customer interviews
At-risk account list with the early warning signals that predicted past losses
Expansion whitespace map across the top accounts, sized by revenue
Renewal and expansion playbook that names who owns each account motion, sales or customer success
Includes up to ten customer interviews. You choose and introduce the customers.
75 days · Before you hire a sell-side advisor
Full Speed GTM at Exit
Pre-exit go-to-market readiness and acceleration
Fixed fee, 75 days before the sale process
Get the go-to-market engine to full speed before a banker ever sees it, so buyers underwrite your growth instead of discounting it.
The problem. A sale is 12 to 24 months out. Buyers will test pipeline quality, retention and forecast accuracy line by line, and every soft spot turns into a lower multiple, a holdback or an earnout.
Built for. PE sponsors, operating partners and portfolio CEOs preparing for exit, before engaging a sell-side advisor or banker.
What you walk away with
Days 1 to 25: buyer's-eye revenue quality review across pipeline coverage, win rates, gross and net revenue retention, pricing realization, CAC payback and forecast accuracy, tested the way commercial diligence will test them
Days 1 to 25: commercial leadership and team read on who can carry the growth story through a sale process and who buyers will question
Days 1 to 25: test of the equity story's growth claims against what the commercial engine has actually delivered over the last eight quarters
By day 35: the five gaps most likely to cut the multiple or trigger an earnout, ranked by impact on enterprise value, and a board-ready acceleration plan
Days 35 to 75: AGS works alongside the CEO and operating partner to close the gaps and lift go-to-market velocity, with a biweekly progress review
Day 75: exit readiness readout for the board and a commercial data pack your sell-side advisor can build the equity story from
Covers one portfolio company or business unit. Best started 12 to 24 months before a planned sale. The fee credit applies if you continue into follow-on work with AGS through the sale process.
75 days · For PE sponsors
Post-Close First 75 Days
Post-close commercial assessment and 75-day plan
Fixed fee, 75 days from close
A full 75-day engagement, not a sprint: find where the investment thesis is at risk, then stay through day 75 to put the plan in motion.
The problem. The deal just closed, the value creation plan assumes a growth rate the commercial engine has not proven, and the first board meetings are weeks away.
Built for. PE sponsors, operating partners and portfolio CEOs in the first months after close, or after a change in commercial leadership.
What you walk away with
Days 1 to 25: revenue quality baseline across pipeline coverage, win rates, gross and net revenue retention, pricing realization and CAC payback, by segment
Days 1 to 25: commercial leadership and team read, from interviews with the top two levels and performance data, on who can carry the plan
Days 1 to 25: test of the deal model's growth assumptions against what the commercial engine has actually delivered
By day 35: the five constraints most likely to cap the thesis, ranked by impact on EBITDA and exit multiple, and a board-ready commercial plan
Days 35 to 75: AGS works alongside the CEO and operating partner to launch the first moves, with a biweekly progress review
Day 75: progress readout for the board against the measures set at day 35, and the foundation for a full Value Creation Plan
Covers one portfolio company or business unit. The fee credit applies if you continue into a full Value Creation Plan engagement.
Larger or multi-unit companies are quoted in the statement of work before you sign.
Every 25-day sprint runs the same play.
25 days, kickoff to readout. You know what happens in each phase before you sign. The two 75-day engagements run the same diagnosis first, then stay with you to day 75.
Days 1 to 5
Kick off
A 90-minute kickoff, data access, the interview schedule and the one success measure that sets our priorities.
Days 6 to 15
Diagnose
Stakeholder interviews, analysis of your own data and comparison with benchmarks. Early findings shared as they land, not saved for the end.
Days 16 to 22
Build
We build the deliverables in working sessions with your team, so nothing in the readout is a surprise.
Days 23 to 25
Read out
Executive readout, every deliverable handed over, and a 30-day action plan your team can run with or without us.
What we need from you
One executive sponsor, read-only data access and interviews scheduled in the first week, and about four hours of leadership time a week. The 25-day clock assumes week one goes to plan. If it slips, the timeline moves with it.
Who does the work
Sprints are led by Mark Petruzzi and Alan Rudolph with the Expert Accelerator closest to the problem. Your data stays in access-controlled systems and is deleted 30 days after the readout.
Questions
Sprint questions
What is a fixed-fee consulting sprint?+
An AGS sprint is a focused diagnosis of one known problem, delivered for a fixed fee in 25 days. AGS offers three: AI to ROI, Pipeline and Forecast Integrity, and Retention and Expansion. Each starts from a one-page statement of work that sets the fee before any work begins, and ends with an executive readout and a 30-day action plan. For PE sponsors, AGS also offers two fixed-fee 75-day engagements: Full Speed GTM at Exit before a sale and Post-Close First 75 Days after close.
Should I start with a sprint or the 30-day audit?+
If you already know the problem, start with a sprint. If you do not, start with the 30-day Revenue Health Audit, which looks across the whole business and ranks the constraints by impact on EBITDA. Either one can feed a board-ready Value Creation Plan by day 75.
How quickly can a sprint start?+
Kickoff happens within five days of a signed one-page statement of work, on a start date confirmed before you sign. There is no retainer.
What if the sprint does not find anything worth doing?+
If the readout does not give you at least three quantified actions your team accepts as worth doing, we waive half the fee. The full refund guarantee applies to the Revenue Health Audit only.
How is the AI to ROI Sprint priced?+
As a fixed fee for the full 25 days, set out in a one-page statement of work and confirmed before anything is signed. There is no hourly meter and no retainer. The sprint inventories AI spend across licenses, tokens and agents, baselines up to three priority workflows, calculates the return on each live investment and ends with a scale, fix or stop call your CFO and board can act on.
What is a sales pipeline audit?+
A pipeline audit tests how much of the open pipeline is real by reviewing each deal against buyer evidence, stage rules and CRM activity, then measuring forecast accuracy over past quarters. The AGS Pipeline and Forecast Integrity Sprint does this in 25 days for a fixed fee and delivers rewritten stage rules and a 90-day remediation plan.
How do I get a portfolio company ready for a sale process?+
Start before you hire a sell-side advisor. The AGS Full Speed GTM at Exit engagement is a fixed fee for one portfolio company over 75 days. By day 35 it delivers a buyer's-eye review of revenue quality, a test of the equity story's growth claims, a commercial team read, the five gaps most likely to cut the multiple and a board-ready acceleration plan. AGS then works alongside the CEO and operating partner through day 75 and hands over a commercial data pack your advisor can build the equity story from.
How is the Post-Close First 75 Days engagement priced?+
As a fixed fee for one portfolio company covering the first 75 days after close, set out in a one-page statement of work and confirmed before anything is signed. By day 35 it delivers a revenue quality baseline, a test of the deal model's growth assumptions, a commercial team read, the five constraints most likely to cap the thesis and a board-ready commercial plan. AGS then works alongside the CEO and operating partner through day 75 and closes with a progress readout for the board.
What happens after the sprint?+
You keep every deliverable and the 30-day plan, whether or not you continue. If you sign follow-on work with AGS within 60 days of the readout, the sprint fee is credited toward it, up to half of the follow-on fees.
Is the work delivered remotely?+
Yes. Sprints are delivered remotely. Onsite days are available and billed at cost, approved in advance.
Sign this week and have the answer in about six weeks.
Tell us which problem is costing you most. We send the one-page statement of work within one day.
