leadership rhythm and decision flow
System Health Audit
See what is actually slowing your organization down.
A focused assessment for leaders who need to understand what may be limiting progress, weigh the evidence, and choose a practical next step their team can carry out.
A clearer decision before a bigger commitment.
Examine the conditions behind an important outcome before choosing a tool, process change, or deeper engagement.
What It Is
Assess the seven conditions that produce performance
The System Health Audit evaluates whether the seven performance conditions—Capability, Role Design, Motivation and Adoption, Individual Execution, Organizational Design, Organizational Capability, and Culture—can reliably produce the desired result.
It maps how work contributes to the outcome, assesses the likely primary constraint, considers alternative explanations, and recommends a focused next action. Findings distinguish supported evidence from working hypotheses and unresolved gaps.
This is a paid, structured engagement using sponsor input and available operating evidence. We agree the outcome, boundary, participants, and review process before work begins.
Who It Is For
Best for organizations that are feeling the strain of growth, complexity, or inconsistency
The System Health Audit is a strong fit for organizations that are experiencing one or more of the following:
leadership teams carrying too much operational weight
unclear ownership or inconsistent accountability
recurring communication breakdowns across teams
tools, meetings, and workflows that no longer work together well
growth that has outpaced internal coordination
a sense that things are running, but not running cleanly
Not sure whether you need the Audit or a full Cadence engagement? The Audit is the best place to start when the problem is real but the right level of intervention is not yet clear.
What the Audit Looks At
The core conditions shaping how your organization runs.
Each System Health Audit reviews the core conditions shaping how your organization runs.
role clarity and accountability structure
cross-team coordination
operational bottlenecks and recurring friction
visibility into priorities, progress, and follow-through
current tools, systems, and points of fragmentation
readiness for a stronger operating backbone
What you receive
Findings you can act on.
- A defined outcome and a clear account of the operating conditions examined.
- An evidence-supported assessment of the likely constraint, alternative explanations, and missing information.
- A prioritized action plan with proposed ownership, capacity considerations, and measures of progress.
- A review point for testing the recommendation and deciding what to adjust.
- A next-step recommendation: act internally, seek specialist support, or consider a separately scoped Chase Pack engagement.
The audit stands on its own. You can use the findings without purchasing Cadence implementation or ongoing Chase Pack support.
How It Works
A simple diagnostic pathway.
Discovery and review
We gather context on how your organization currently operates, where pressure is building, and what leadership is experiencing.
Diagnostic assessment
We review the operating structure, rhythms, coordination patterns, and system points most likely contributing to friction or instability.
Findings and next-step recommendation
Review the findings, competing explanations, and evidence gaps with us. Leave with prioritized actions, proposed ownership, progress measures, and a review point.
Founding-client investment
$3,500 for a scoped founding-client audit.
This introductory fixed fee applies to the first two or three paid pilots, subject to fit and an agreed scope. We confirm participants, evidence access, responsibilities, deliverables, and timing before you commit.
The provisional standard audit price is $6,500. Scope and pricing will be reviewed as pilot delivery and client value are evaluated. A deeper implementation is a separate decision and agreement.
Illustrative audit excerpt
See how a finding becomes a next step.
Synthetic example only. This illustrates the format; it is not a client result or a diagnosis of your organization.
- Desired outcome
- Move agreed work through approval reliably.
- Evidence
- Staff report repeated approval delays. Sample work records show requests waiting without a named decision owner.
- Working hypothesis
- Unclear approval authority may be the main constraint. Competing priorities or missing information could also explain the delays.
- Evidence still needed
- Review recent requests with the people approving and delivering the work before settling the diagnosis.
- Proposed action and owner
- A designated operations lead tests one approval route with a named decision-maker. Use an existing review slot and confirm capacity before adding work.
- Measure and reassess
- Compare approval waiting time and reopened decisions with the baseline after four weeks. Retain, adjust, or stop the change based on what the evidence shows.
Diagnostic Logic
The lowest score is not automatically the most important problem.
The Audit evaluates impact, frequency, downstream dependency, and intervention effort to assess which constraint is most likely to matter for the desired outcome. Conclusions remain open to revision as evidence improves.
Identify what limits performance
Define the outcome and trace the causal conditions required to produce it.
Change only what creates leverage
Choose a people, role, workflow, governance, technology, agent, rhythm, or culture intervention.
Measure and reassess
Observe leading and lagging evidence, preserve the learning, and reassess as the constraint moves.
CADENCE Diagnostic Principle
Constraint → Intervention → Rhythm → Evidence → Reassessment
The Audit prioritizes a small number of changes supported by the available evidence, with explicit uncertainty and a way to reassess what happens next.
Start with Clarity