--- title: The 5-Day Sprint | Brookwood Growth description: A fixed-fee, 5-day Sprint for owner-operators. 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If you don't leave with one clear decision you'd act on, you don't pay. The 5-Day Sprint finds where customers, cash, or time are slipping, ranks the gaps, and hands you the plan, using the data you already have. Duration5 business days FormatAsync + 1 call ScopeFixed fee, quoted first CapacityBy application [Book a Free Gap Call](https://www.brookwoodgrowth.com/gap-call) Not ready to talk? [Take the 2-Minute Gap Check →](https://www.brookwoodgrowth.com/gap-check) 01 The problem ## Three teams. Three numbers. One owner who can't decide. Owner-operators run businesses where marketing, sales, and operations each produce different numbers. Nobody is lying. The systems just don't agree. Decisions about where to spend, what to cut, or what to fix sit in the inbox because nothing reconciles. This is not a technology problem. It is a clarity problem. The Sprint is built to fix it. 02 The five days ## A 5-day diagnostic. Fixed scope. No drift. 01 IntakeDay one - async You hand us read-only access to the systems you already run. No new tools. We map what's where, what owns what, and what definitions each team uses. - Read-only access to CRM, ops, and marketing reporting - 30-minute kickoff to align on the question we're answering - You go back to running the business. We get to work 02 DiagnoseDay two - async We pull the three reports that don't agree and line them up against each other. We find where the numbers diverge, how big the divergence is, and which definitions don't match. - Side-by-side reconciliation of conflicting reports - Definition map, what each team is actually counting - Working list of suspected gaps, ranked by size 03 ClarifyDay three - async We trace each gap back to its root cause. Broken handoffs, missing fields, mislabeled stages, or the real underlying issue. Symptoms get separated from causes. - Root cause for each material gap - Dollars-and-leads sizing where the data supports it - Plain-language explanation an owner can repeat in a meeting 04 PrioritizeDay four - async We pick the 1-3 actions that move the most money for the least effort. Each one gets a recommended owner, a specific next step, and a measurement so you'll know if it worked. - 1-3 prioritized actions with impact and effort sizing - Owner, next step, and measurement for each - What we're explicitly not recommending (and why) 05 DebriefDay five - live call A 60-minute walkthrough. We hand you the Decision Brief. One page, plain language, with the gap, the cause, the actions, and the math. You leave with one clear decision and a path to act on it Monday morning. - 60-minute call with your Brookwood lead, recorded for your team - One-page Decision Brief plus the Revenue Leak Review and Alignment Review - 30 days of email follow-up while you implement 03 Deliverables ## Three artifacts. One clear decision. Everything we produce is tangible. The Decision Brief sits on your desk. The Revenue Leak Review shows where money is slipping. The Alignment Review tells you which definition to fix first. \- 001 Decision Brief One page. Plain language. What changed, what it means, what to do next. The artifact the owner reads first. \- 002 Revenue Leak Review Where revenue is slipping through the cracks, sized in dollars. Top three leaks, ranked, with a recommendation for each. \- 003 Alignment Review Where your people, processes, and reports stopped lining up, and which definition needs to be fixed before the others. 04 Fit check ## What this is. What this isn't. The Sprint is the right move for owner-operators with conflicting reports and a decision sitting on hold. It is the wrong move for almost everything else. \- What this isn't ### Not the ongoing work. - The monthly execution. That's the [Fractional Team](https://www.brookwoodgrowth.com/fractional-team), if you want it. - A software implementation or dashboard build - A 40-page strategy deck nobody reads - Pitched at CROs or VPs of Sales at funded startups - An audit you'll need to translate before you can act \- What this is ### A five-day diagnostic. - Fixed scope, fixed timeline, fixed price - Uses the data you already have. No new tools - Pitched at the owner, who is also the buyer - Plain-language output you can act on Monday - One clear decision, sized in dollars and leads 05 Who it fits ## Selective on purpose. We run a small number of Sprints at a time so each one gets senior attention, end to end. The free Gap Call is where we both decide whether it fits. \- What we look for $1M - $25M revenue, owner-led The person reading this is the person signing the engagement. No procurement, no committee. A specific decision you can't defend A hire, a spend, a re-org, a number in a board pack. Something concrete that's on hold. Multiple systems or locations Accounting software, a CRM, spreadsheets, or any combination. We adapt to your stack. Willingness to share read-only access We don't change anything. We don't move data. We read what's there and write down what we find. A full in-house finance and ops team already on it You have the headcount. You'd be better served asking them than buying a Sprint. Software implementations or dashboard builds That's a different shop. The Sprint is diagnostic. We can recommend who to call. "Just curious" exploration If there isn't a real decision behind it, the Sprint won't have anything to bite on. \- How to start Start with a free 20-minute Gap Call. 01Free Gap Call, 20 minutesNow 02Fee and scope in writingBefore work We tell you plainly whether the Sprint fits. If it doesn't, we'll tell you who to call instead. [Book a Free Gap Call](https://www.brookwoodgrowth.com/gap-call) 06 If you don't leave with one clear decision you'd act on, you don't pay. ## If you don't leave with one clear decision you'd act on, you don't pay. The Sprint is built around one job. Hand the owner one decision they can defend on Monday. That's the bar. If we hit it, the engagement is worth its fee many times over. If you don't leave with one clear decision you'd act on, you don't pay. Plain terms \- Written into every Sprint If you don't leave with one clear decision you'd act on, you don't pay. In writing. Before the engagement begins. The option is yours. 07 Plain answers ## Questions owners ask. The Sprint is fixed scope on purpose. Most questions about it have direct answers. Here they are. What does the Sprint cost? Fixed-fee engagement. The number is shared on the Gap Call once we've confirmed fit. You'll know the price before any commitment, and we won't quote a range until we understand the question you need answered. Do I need a specific tech stack? No. The Sprint works with whatever you already run: accounting software, a CRM, spreadsheets, or a mix. We adapt to your stack. We don't ask you to adapt to ours. What if my data is messy? It almost always is. Messy data is the symptom we diagnose. If your numbers were already clean and aligned, you wouldn't need us. We work with what you have. That's the entire premise. Will you try to upsell me into a retainer? No pressure. The Sprint stands on its own: you keep the ranked plan and can run it yourself. If you want help doing the work, our fractional team can take it on. That's a separate decision, made after the debrief, not before. Who runs the Sprint? Each Sprint is run by a Brookwood partner end to end. There is no associate pool or contracted analyst layer. The person on the kickoff is the person doing the analysis, writing the brief, and delivering the debrief. How much of my team's time will this take? A 30-minute kickoff and a 60-minute debrief from you. Maybe 30 minutes of read-only access setup from whoever owns your systems. That's it. We do the work async, with the data you already have. When can we start? We work with a small number of clients at a time, by application. Most engagements start within two weeks of the Gap Call. Book the call and we'll tell you the next available start date. 08 Start here ## One clear decision can change the whole year. A free 20-minute Gap Call confirms fit, scopes the question we'll answer, and walks you through the fixed fee. 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