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SELECTIVE ADDITIONAL ENGAGEMENTS

Focused analytical capacity for recurring and high-consequence decisions.

Defined project engagements and limited retainers for organizations that need independent diligence or additional executive-intelligence capacity.

TECHNICAL-COMMERCIAL DILIGENCE

Determine whether the opportunity can work, scale, and create economic value.

Independent assessment of a technology, company, partnership, acquisition, licensing opportunity, or investment thesis across the factors that determine commercial credibility and execution risk.

Technology & Evidence 

Architecture, performance claims, supporting evidence, development maturity, and material technical uncertainties.

Customer & Market Adoption

Customer need, economic value, buying process, qualification path, switching barriers, and adoption evidence.

Economics & Capital

Cost structure, pricing, margin potential, capital requirements, milestone funding, and financial sensitivities.

Manufacturing & Scale-Up

Process readiness, yield sensitivities, packaging, test, supplier dependencies, and production assumptions.

Competition & Differentiation

Existing alternatives, differentiation, switching barriers, pricing pressure, and likely competitive response.

Execution & Milestones

Integration and qualification requirements, team capacity, dependencies, decision gates, and priorities for reducing risk.

What you receive

An executive diligence memorandum, evidence-gap and risk register, management questions, and prioritized validation milestones.

Typical duration: 4-6 weeks, depending on scope and access to evidence.

EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE DESK

Senior analytical capacity without a full-time strategy hire.

A defined monthly advisory relationship for founders and leadership teams facing recurring market, customer, partner, funding, or strategic decisions.

Market & Competitive Monitoring

Monitor material market shifts, competitor activity, and industrial trends that may affect your priorities, positioning, or timing.

Financial Scenario Analysis

Quantitative modeling and financial scenario analysis to evaluate capital needs, commercialization risk, and the economic viability of technical milestones and growth paths.

Executive Decision Briefs

Strategic summaries and executive memoranda that distill complex technical-commercial data into clear, actionable insights for leadership review and decision-making.

Customer & Partner Assessment

Evaluate customer and partner fit, value exchange, qualification requirements, relationship dependencies, and execution risks.

A defined monthly remit

Monthly priorities, deliverables, meeting cadence, response expectations, and revision limits are agreed in advance. A retainer does not include unlimited on-demand support.

Three-month initial engagement.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT ENGAGEMENT

Choose the format that fits the decision.

ONE DEFINED DECISION

3C Decision Sprint

Use when one high-priority strategic or commercialization question must be resolved within weeks.

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Typically two weeks after kickoff and receipt of required materials.

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Explore the Sprint

DEEP INDEPENDENT REVIEW

Technical-Commercial Diligence

Use when an investment, partnership, acquisition, or technology thesis requires a broader evidence and risk assessment.

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Typical duration: 4-6 weeks, depending on scope

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Discuss a Diligence Review

RECURRING DECISION CAPACITY

Executive Intelligence Desk

Use when the leadership team needs ongoing research, analysis, modeling, and executive-ready materials.

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Typical term: three-month initial engagement

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Discuss the Intelligence Desk

ENGAGEMENT PRINCIPLES

Clear boundaries strengthen the work.

Principal-Led

Clients work directly with the individual responsible for the analysis and recommendation.

Defined Outputs

Scope, deliverables, cadence, review cycles, and exclusions are agreed before work begins.

Evidence Discipline

Verified facts, assumptions, estimates, and inferences are distinguished throughout the work.

Conflict Screening

Potential competitive, customer, supplier, investor, and professional conflicts are reviewed before acceptance.

SELECT THE ENGAGEMENT

Not sure which service fits?

Compare the engagement formats with our AI-assisted guide, or contact thinc3 directly.

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