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Strategy audit

A strategy audit that looks for what nobody wants to raise.

Challenge, on the record.

StratChecks audits the logic, evidence and assumptions behind your strategy, and reports the contradictions, gaps and risks in writing.

StratChecks diagnosticIllustrative example

StratCheck Score

0/ 100

Strategically sound

Strategy Quality0
Strategic Fit0
Execution Readiness0

Assumption Confidence

0

Assessment Confidence

0%

StratGap

0

Material assumptions

0

Assumption register

  • Critical2
  • High3
  • Moderate2
Figures shown are illustrative and do not represent a real client assessment.

Context

What this diagnostic covers

An audit is not a critique of ambition. It is a test of whether the reasoning holds: whether the diagnosis is evidenced, whether the choices are genuine choices, and whether the plan contradicts itself once you look across it.

We identify Strategic Red Flags — the findings that warrant leadership attention before commitments are made — and rate the assumptions the strategy quietly depends on.

Findings are independent. We have no implementation work to sell you afterwards.

Contradictions

Where priorities, resources and stated choices pull against each other.

Strategic Red Flags

The issues that should be resolved before further commitment.

Assumption risk

Confidence and materiality ratings, with recommended validation actions.

Methodology

Score → Challenge → Validate → Decide → Act

  1. 01

    Score

    Assess the strategy against a structured diagnostic framework.

  2. 02

    Challenge

    Identify gaps, contradictions and weak strategic choices.

  3. 03

    Validate

    Surface and test the assumptions on which success depends.

  4. 04

    Decide

    Identify the decisions leadership needs to make.

  5. 05

    Act

    Prioritise what should happen Now, Next and Later.

Pricing

Choose how hard you want us to test your strategy.

Strategy Check

Is your strategy fundamentally sound?

£495

Fixed price, excluding VAT where applicable.

Best for leaders who want an independent assessment of strategy quality.

Includes

  • Direction & Ambition
  • Diagnosis & Evidence
  • Strategic Choices
  • Coherence
  • Strategy Quality Score
  • Assumption identification
  • Strategic Red Flags
  • Priority actions
  • 10–15 page report
  • Delivered within 5 working days
Check my strategy →Full product detail

Strategy Stress Test

Most popular

Will your strategy stand up to challenge?

£1,250

Fixed price, excluding VAT where applicable.

Best for leadership teams facing board, investor or shareholder scrutiny of the strategy.

Everything in Strategy Check, plus

  • External Fit
  • Organisational Fit
  • Value & Outcomes
  • Independent external research
  • Assumption Confidence
  • Leadership Decision Agenda
  • 20–30 page executive report
  • 60-minute executive challenge session
  • Delivered within 7 working days
Stress-test my strategy →Full product detail

Strategy-to-Execution Check

Can your organisation actually deliver it?

£2,950

Fixed price, excluding VAT where applicable.

Best for organisations moving from strategy approval into mobilisation and delivery.

Everything above, plus

  • All 10 diagnostic dimensions
  • Full 50-point assessment
  • Operating Model Alignment
  • Capability & Enablement
  • Mobilisation & Delivery
  • Execution Readiness Score
  • StratGap
  • Execution heatmap
  • 90-day priorities
  • 30–40 page executive report
  • 90-minute executive playback
  • Delivered within 10 working days
Test execution readiness →Full product detail