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Leadership alignment survey
A structured survey across your leadership team and key contributors, so the signal is your whole org, not just the founder's account.
The Diagnostic
Locate the constraint that's actually capping growth, in 4 to 6 weeks.
The Alignment Diagnostic is a 4- to 6-week cross-functional readout by Fractional CMO/COO John Dobharchú that locates the real constraint capping growth: the force first — Performance, People, or Purpose — then the exact layer inside it driving the result.
A cross-functional readout that finds the real driver, the force first, then the exact layer inside it. Signal is pulled from three sources, not just the founder's account.
Delivered as a written Alignment Report and a live executive debrief.
Signal
Three sources of signal, triangulated.
The constraint call only gets airtight when the signal comes from more than one place. I pull from three, and read them against each other.
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1:1 stakeholder interviews
Confidential conversations across functions to surface what doesn't make it into surveys, the friction, the workarounds, the unspoken decisions.
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Working artifacts
Financials, org chart, funnel data, operating docs. The artifacts the company actually runs on, read for what they show and what they don't.
06 · The Framework
Every company runs on three forces.
Growth flattens, and the strain surfaces in one place while it originates in another. Oscension reads all three forces, finds the one that's actually constrained, and traces it to the precise driver inside it.
Performance
Where work turns into results the unit economics can sustain. Most pain shows up here first.
People
Where the team aligns, trusts each other, and keeps decisions moving.
Purpose
Where the company knows why it exists and where it's headed.
Each force resolves into deeper layers, seven in all: scored individually in the Diagnostic. The three forces are how you understand the constraint; the seven layers are how it's proven.
See where your constraint sitsOutcome
What you leave with.
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The constraint, located
The one force capping growth, and the specific layer inside it driving the result.
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The causality
How the layer driving the problem connects to the pain you're actually feeling, so the obvious fixes finally make sense.
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The sequence
The order to fix it, root first, so effort lands where it moves the business.
The deliverable is a written Alignment Report and a live executive debrief where the finding lands in the room with your leadership team. The plan is built to run with or without me in the seat.
What comes next
Two ways to act on what we find.
The Diagnostic stands on its own. From there, two ways forward, chosen to fit how your team works, never bundled upfront.
RecommendedAfter the Diagnostic
Fractional Leadership
I step into the CMO or COO seat the constraint calls for, guide the fix into place, and hand the team a documented progress readout showing what moved at each layer. The change sticks; you stay off the critical path.
Self-directedAfter the Diagnostic
Strategy Sprint
Turns the diagnosis into a sequenced 90-day plan with the decision-making frameworks to run it. Your team leaves ready to begin on Monday, in the right order.
Six months on, we reconvene: a free Pulse call, or a lighter Alignment Check if it's time to re-score. See the cadence →
Common questions
What founders ask before they book.
Ready to find what's actually capping growth?
A short call tells us whether now is the right time to run it.