Business strategy sprint questions.

A BridgeStride Strategy Sprint is a fixed-fee, five-day engagement built to settle one consequential business decision. I prepare for two weeks, work on-site with the founder and leadership team Monday through Friday, and deliver the recommendation, evidence, tradeoffs, and first 90 days in a written decision memo.

A workshop is usually designed to generate ideas, align a group, or facilitate planning. This sprint is designed to reach a decision. I listen and test the evidence, work alone when the analysis requires it, make a recommendation, write the strongest case against it, and stay through Friday until the founder makes the call.

There is no open-ended discovery phase, associate team, recurring deck, or automatic retainer. One senior practitioner works across the whole question for one concentrated week. A fractional executive adds ongoing operating capacity; the sprint adds independent judgment so your team can execute a settled decision.

The common questions sit at the intersection of strategy, finance, operations, leadership, and company value: a founder bottleneck, stalled growth, disappearing margin, ownership structure, capital allocation, or uncertainty about what is suppressing business value. The question must be consequential, specific enough to settle, and yours to decide.

I don't. I understand one question in your business. The sprint is scoped to a single decision, and by Monday morning I've had your financials and questionnaire for two weeks and done my own research on your market and competitors. The week starts at hour forty, not hour zero.

There's always an answer. Sometimes it's "don't do the thing you were about to do," and sometimes it's "the question you brought isn't the one that matters." Both are worth the fee. What you're guaranteed is a written recommendation with the reasoning and the numbers behind it, not a maybe.

For most sprints, yes. Monday and Tuesday are the minimum. I need to hear the constraint from the people living it, not just from you. We'll sort out exactly who on the scoping call.

A completed questionnaire, three years of financials, your current org chart, and any recent board materials. Sent at booking, two weeks ahead.

The standard engagement is $50,000 for the sprint plus $15,000 for travel and accommodation. There are no additional expenses or reimbursables. Larger or more complex engagements are quoted as one fixed figure before you commit, and the number does not move once the week begins.

No. It's scoped and fixed before you commit, and it doesn't move once the week begins. That protection runs both ways.

Yes. Three are listed on the Start Smaller page. Each is fixed-fee, ends in a written memo, and is credited in full toward a sprint booked within ninety days.

Then it's settled, and you don't need a sprint. That happens. The credit is there if it doesn't.

One reschedule is available at no cost with seven days' notice. We confirm the dates and terms in writing before you book.

Yes, always, before the questionnaire goes out.

No. The memo is written so you can execute it alone. Some founders want me around while they do. That's a conversation you'd start, not one I'll open.

Companies where the founder is still the primary decision-maker and the decisions have gotten expensive. Big enough that the answer isn't obvious, small enough that you're still the one who decides. If you're unsure, ask on the free scoping call.

The published case studies span software, commercial property, and investment management. Fit depends less on industry than on access to the numbers, access to the people living the constraint, and a founder who still has authority to make the final decision.

You leave with an eight-to-fourteen-page decision memo: the recommendation, reasoning, evidence, what was ruled out, the case against, the cost, the first 90 days with owners, and the tripwire that says stop or change course. It is written so your team can execute without keeping me on retainer.

BridgeStride is based in Glendale, Arizona. I come to you for the sprint: ten engagements a year, on-site anywhere in the United States.