About 90 minutes of your time, mostly talking, not paperwork. You tell us how the work actually runs; a named analyst turns it into a report that says what to fix first and what fixing it is worth.
Foothill is a $1,500 workflow diagnostic. It delivers an analyst-signed Trail Map and walkthrough. The Trail Map is a complete deliverable even if you never expand scope. When the evidence shows a wider engagement is warranted, the $1,500 credits toward Ridge, Summit or Expedition if you choose to proceed.
Foothill is the first turn of ProcessScout's verified transformation system. The Trail Map is complete and yours even if you stop there.
Two ways in: talk to Sarah first — free, no card — or go express and pay $1,500 for a five-day analyst-signed diagnostic.
What happens after you click
Every finding carries its evidence source and a confidence band. Illustrative sample — not customer results.
200+ assessments delivered
A human analyst owns the judgment. David Bell reviews the evidence and signs every Trail Map.
Six sections, in the order an owner would ask: your business, the people, the tools, the bottlenecks, the projects ranked by payback, and the ROI math. Read the published sample end to end before you decide — it is the same structure you receive.
How the work actually flows today — reconstructed from the conversation and whatever you shared, not from an org chart.
Who does what, where the handoffs break, and where everything waits on one person.
The systems and spreadsheets in play, what gets re-keyed between them, and how often.
Where hours and money leak, quantified as far as the evidence honestly allows — with a confidence band on every finding.
Every fix scoped and ordered by what it returns first — including an explicit list of what to leave alone, and why.
What each project costs, what it should return, and the assumptions behind the numbers — shown so you can check them.
The number that matters most is not on this page: it is the leakage the Trail Map finds. If a workflow is costing you less than $1,500 a year, the honest answer is to leave it alone — and the report will say so.
The most common reason people hesitate is a fear that their process is too undocumented to assess. Undocumented is the normal case — reconstructing it from real evidence is the work you’re paying for.
A conversation about how the work actually runs, plus a few follow-up questions. Spread across the engagement, not booked in one block.
Send whatever you have — a quote, a spreadsheet, a photo of the whiteboard — or just talk. Gaps are our job, not yours: they get recorded as gaps, not guesses.
Pick the process that irritates you most. If the evidence shows the real problem sits next door, the Trail Map says so.
You always know where you are, and what happens next.
$1,500 opens a real diagnostic. You’re buying an analyst’s decision, backed by your own evidence — not a quiz result.
DAY 0About 90 minutes with Sarah, mostly talking — how the work runs, who touches it, where it stalls. Send whatever you have later — a quote, a spreadsheet, a photo of the whiteboard — or just talk; gaps are our job, not yours.
DAYS 1–3 · YOUR ~90 MINUTESThe evidence-backed report: scope, headline leakage, evidence quality, the recommended first move, and the right tier — signed off by a human analyst.
5 WORKING DAYS FROM COMPLETE INTAKEHave ProcessScout build the fixes, take the report in-house, or hand it to your own advisor. Nothing further is required of you — the report is yours either way.
YOUR CALLSelected Ridge and Summit engagements may include a First Win Sprint pilot — a scoped path from Trail Map to a working first change with a measurement window. Limited availability.
Every project in the report is scoped to be buildable — what it takes, what it costs, what it pays back. If you want the team that wrote the report to deliver it, your $1,500 credits toward a ProcessScout-delivered engagement of $7,500 or more signed within 30 days. Prefer to run it yourself, or hand it to your own advisor? The report is written for that too. No lock-in either way.
If ProcessScout cannot identify at least three evidence-backed opportunities from the evidence supplied through a good-faith Foothill intake, the Foothill fee is refunded under the Terms.
Sarah guides intake; a human analyst owns the judgment. A named analyst signs every report.
Anything you share is handled securely — start with whatever you’re comfortable with: exports, screenshots, walkthroughs, or just the conversation. See Security, or read the full Terms.
Five working days from a complete intake — and “complete” is doing real work in that sentence. The clock starts when the analyst has what they need from you, not when you pay.
So the turnaround is partly yours to control. Your side of it is roughly 90 minutes: the intake, a walkthrough conversation or two, and answers to follow-up questions. Get that done in the first day or two and the Trail Map lands inside a week. If the evidence stalls, the clock stalls with it — and we tell you what is outstanding rather than guess and fill the gap.
That is the normal starting point, and it is not a blocker. Most of what matters is already sitting in exports, spreadsheets, inboxes, and people’s heads — and the intake is mostly talking, not paperwork.
Uploads are optional, and they can come later. Send whatever you have — a quote, a spreadsheet, a photo of the whiteboard — or just talk. Where evidence is genuinely missing, the report records it as a gap with a low confidence band rather than filling it with a guess. Gaps are our job, not yours.
Around 90 minutes in total, typically split between a short intake, one or two walkthrough conversations with the people who do the work, and a few follow-up questions. It is not a workshop and it does not need a project team.
Anything you share goes into secured storage and is used only to produce your report. Start with whatever you’re comfortable with — redacted exports, screenshots, and walkthroughs are usually enough to begin, and talking alone is a fine start. Retention, deletion, and subprocessors are set out on the Security page, along with an honest statement of where our compliance posture currently stands.
No. The Trail Map is a complete deliverable and most Foothill engagements end there — you take the report and act on it in-house, with your own advisor, or with a partner of your choosing.
If the evidence genuinely shows the problem is wider than one workflow, the report says so and your $1,500 credits toward that larger scope. That is a routing decision made from evidence, and you are free to ignore it.
Yes — as a separate engagement, never as an obligation. Every project in the report is scoped to be buildable, and the report names a route to getting each one done with an indicative cost.
If you want the team that wrote the report to deliver it, your $1,500 credits toward a ProcessScout-delivered engagement of $7,500 or more signed within 30 days. Or take the report in-house or to your own advisor — the report is yours either way, no lock-in. See the partner marketplace if you want delivery help.
Sarah, the intake guide, gathers and structures the evidence: she asks follow-up questions, chases the gaps, and organises what you supply so an analyst can work with it. Every recommendation, priority, risk call, and scope judgment in the finished Trail Map is a human analyst’s, and it carries their sign-off.
That is a separate product and you can license it directly, without buying a Trail Map. See the software and its pricing.
One fixed fee, about 90 minutes of your time, one analyst-signed report: what to fix first, what it’s worth — and what to leave alone.
5 working days from a complete intake · Three opportunities or your fee back · Signed by a named analyst
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