A clear pathway through the Plan A Impact Framework. What we do together at each stage, what changes for your organisation, and what comes next. Designed for mission-driven organisations preparing for capital, corporate procurement, or public-authority partnership.
Seven stages, grouped in three arcs. Each stage has a named output, named owners, and a clear sense of what to expect. Most clients move through the full pathway in 14–16 weeks; clients who arrive via the SENIC Impact Diamond may move faster.
A defensible scored snapshot in time. No Workplan, no Pulse, no Bundle — you walk away with a Diagnostic Report and a recommended next step. Best when you want to know where you stand before committing to a Sprint.
The full pathway through to the Evidence Bundle. Suited to clients with mature artefact bases who can skip a separate Diagnostic — an intake audit at Stage 1 confirms eligibility. Best for organisations with a near-term funding, procurement or partnership decision.
Sequential. The Diagnostic produces the Workplan candidate list the Sprint Baseline then refines and runs. The most common pathway for organisations new to the methodology — and the most defensible because the Sprint Baseline starts from documented Diagnostic findings.
You take the free Readiness Snapshot (10 questions, 5 minutes), book a 30-minute discovery call, and we mutually decide whether a Sprint is the right product for where you are. If you arrived via the Impact Diamond, this stage is shorter because the design intent is already on the table.
You receive a Sprint engagement letter using our standard template. On signature, we set up your Sprint project in Atlas (atlas.senic.world), invite your named team members, and run a two-hour kickoff workshop with your Client Lead, your board chair where available, the SENIC Delivery Lead and the Diesis Sector Advisor.
All four input modes activate: the quantitative Questionnaire (15 indicators), the structured Interview with your Client Lead (25 indicators), the multi-respondent Surveys distributed to beneficiaries / board / staff (15 indicators), and the Evidence-upload portal for your existing artefacts (100 indicators). Atlas Inspector reads what comes in, drafts scores against the rubric, and surfaces edge cases for human judgement.
A joint workshop translates the Baseline into a Workplan: 5 to 10 indicators we'll move during the Sprint, ranked by funder-readiness gap (the cost of the gap to your next visible funding or partnership decision). Each Workplan row names the evidence artefact you'll produce, the threshold a funder would accept, the owner on your side, and the due week. Signed by you, by us, and countersigned by the Independent Peer Reviewer for structural compliance.
Each Workplan owner posts a five-line update per indicator every Wednesday by 16:00 CET. Status (Green / Amber / Red), one-line blocker, one-line decision needed, evidence collected this week, next step. Atlas Inspector aggregates the stream into a one-page weekly steering brief — the steering committee reads the brief, not the full stream. The reviewer reads the full stream at week 4 and week 8 (course-correct moments) and at Endline.
We re-score every Workplan indicator against the same evidence threshold used at Baseline. The Evidence Bundle assembles in funder-reading sequence: pillar summary → score uplift table → top-three evidence items → independent reviewer statement → index + remainder. The Independent Peer Reviewer reads, judges, and signs the sign-off statement: accept, accept with stated reservations, or return for rework.
A two-hour debrief with your leadership team. For a Sprint: the score uplift, the per-pillar moves, the benchmark insight on where you now sit relative to peers in your sector and size bracket, the Sprint Outcomes one-pager you can use externally. For a Diagnostic-only engagement: the pillar scores, the peer-benchmark percentile, the recommended Workplan candidates if a Sprint is recommended, the debrief on next-step pathways. Either way: we discuss the recommended next step — Diagnostic refresh in 12 months, the Sprint itself if you ran Diagnostic only, Corporate Bridge, Public Authority Programme, Intelligence Subscription, or Diamond engagement for a new venture.
The chain from what we bring, through what we do together, to what you'll see in your organisation in 90 days, six months and twelve months. Not aspiration — the actual mechanism by which a Sprint produces readiness, traced step by step.
A realistic expectation of how the change shows up, in your own organisation, over time after the Sprint completes.
The Sprint is the conversion product. It's also the entry point to the wider Keystone relationship. Below: the six paths most clients take after their first Sprint, when each fits, and what each produces.
If you're not sure which path fits your post-Sprint situation, these rules of thumb will get you close.
Take the free Snapshot in 5 minutes, or book a 30-minute discovery call. Either way, the first step is free, and we'll tell you honestly whether Keystone is the right next move for your organisation.