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Discovery call

Thirty minutes, one decision you are stuck on.

Not a sales call. Bring the decision you cannot make — a build-or-buy, a rewrite you are not sure about, a delivery date nobody in the room believes — and leave with a written view on it. If I am not the right person for it, you will know inside ten minutes and I will say who is.

30 minutesand it ends on time
Google Meetlink in the invite
No costand no follow-up sequence
One decisionnamed by you, in advance

Book it if

  • You own a digital delivery that has stopped being predictable, and you cannot yet say why.
  • You are about to commit budget to a direction and want it argued against before you do.
  • You are holding an estimate, an architecture or a vendor proposal you have no independent way to check.
  • Someone senior has told you something is fine, and you would like that tested by a person with no stake in the answer.

Do not book it if

  • You want consulting in thirty-minute instalments. One decision, once. A real engagement is a different conversation and I will tell you what it costs rather than drip it.
  • You are shopping procurement and need a number. Send the RFQ instead — it is faster for both of us and a call will not speed it up.
  • You need somebody to take over a delivery this week. I cannot, and thirty minutes will not change that.
  • You want code, a repository or a document reviewed live. Nothing honest happens in thirty minutes of reading; that is a due diligence, not a call.

What happens in the thirty minutes

  1. 0–5 min

    The situation

    You talk and I do not. Where you are, what changed recently, and what is forcing the decision now rather than next quarter.

  2. 5–20 min

    The actual question

    I push on it. Most of the value in a call like this is discovering that the question you asked is not the one blocking you — and that is worth finding in fifteen minutes rather than in a quarter.

  3. 20–30 min

    The view

    What I would do, what I would need to know before being certain, and what the first move realistically costs. Including when the first move is to do nothing yet.

What you leave with

A written note, inside one working day: the decision as I understood it, the two or three options genuinely open to you, and the one I would take with the reason attached. It is written to be read by somebody who was not on the call, because that is usually who has to agree with it.

What to bring

One sentence naming the decision you want to reach. The booking form asks for it and that is the whole of the preparation — I read it before we talk, so the first five minutes are not spent on context you already typed.

Pick a slot

Next available slots are shown straight from my calendar. You get the Meet link and the invite the moment you book.

Book a discovery call

Opens my booking page in a new tab. Slots are held at least twelve hours ahead — if you need something sooner than that, write to me and say so.

No recording, no transcription, no AI notetaker. If you want notes, the written note above is them.

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