Imagine having a world-class transformation advisor who: 

  ✅ Never sleeps 

  ✅ Learns your business inside and out 

  ✅ Spots risks before they become problems 

  ✅ Guides your team with proven frameworks and guide rails 

  ✅ Evolves with your business as it grows 

Meet Athena – your AI-powered strategic guide, designed to help you confidently launch and lead your business transformation—without the risk, cost, or complexity of traditional consulting. 

 

💡 Why Traditional Transformation Fails Most SMBs 

 🔴 Traditional Consulting Firms – Too expensive, too slow 

 🔴 Vendors – Too biased toward selling their own tools 

 🔴 Doing It Alone – Too risky and resource-draining 

You need a solution built for your scale, your speed, and your constraints—and one that gives you clarity from day one. 

That’s where Athena + the DDA approach (Discover, Design, Align) comes in. 

 

🧭 Start With DDA: The Proven 3-Step Phase 0 Model 

Before you commit time, people, or budget to change—you need to make sure the foundation is solid. That foundation is Phase 0, and our DDA approach ensures you don’t just plan—you prepare. 

 

🔍 1. Discover: Get Clear Before You Commit 

Athena leads the Discover phase by guiding you through a structured readiness assessment across the first 9 strategy steps of the BusinessGPS framework. 

 🔹 AI-generated SuccessMap tailored to your business 

 🔹 RAG status + scoring on each foundational area 

 🔹 3 tailored actions per step to improve readiness 

 🔹 Exportable report to share internally or externally 

📊 90% faster and more complete than consultant-led assessments 

 🧠 Designed to surface the risks most companies don’t see until it’s too late 

 

🧩 2. Design: Turn Insight Into Strategy 

Once your SuccessMap is complete, our team (with further AI tools) turns your assessment into a detailed transformation roadmap. 

 🔹 Side-by-side review of Athena’s findings 

 🔹 Consolidated views from multiple leaders (optional) 

 🔹 Transformation roadmap designed around your goals and constraints 

 🔹 Expert review session to lock in focus and direction 

🎯 65% reduction in roadmap design time 

 💡 Aligned, realistic, and built for your resource profile 

 

🤝 3. Align: Prepare the Organisation to Execute 

We generate role-specific tools to help you build alignment across your leadership and delivery teams—before any project begins. 

 🔹 9 custom cheat sheets based on your roadmap 

 🔹 Clarity on key messages, priorities, and ownership 

 🔹 Final review session to prepare for Phase 1 execution 

📈 Ensures leadership buy-in and team clarity 

 🔐 Prevents the common cultural & communication gaps that derail change 

 

🪜 Climbing the Value Ladder with DDA + Athena 

DDAPhase	Value Delivered	Time to Realise	Impact
🔍 Discover	Clarity, confidence, and executive focus	Instant (Day 1)	Strategic readiness + risk ID
🧩 Design	Structured roadmap & execution planning	1–2 Weeks	Transformation confidence
🤝 Align	Team-wide alignment & clarity	2–4 Weeks	Ownership, communication, buy-in

 

🤖 What Athena Brings to Your Discover Phase 

   ✅ Structured AI assessment of transformation readiness 

   ✅ SuccessMap™ report with scoring, colour-coding, and improvement actions 

   ✅ Always-on guidance, fully confidential and role-personalised 

   ✅ Optional sharing across the leadership team to highlight alignment gaps 

Athena gives you more than a snapshot—she gives you the foundation for everything that comes next. 

 

🎯 The Bottom Line 

Start here, and you’ll be equipped with the clarity, structure, and alignment needed to confidently launch your business transformation—with or without external partners. 

 Athena is your first step to a better transformation. 

 DDA is the method that ensures it sticks. 

 BusinessGPS is the framework that ensures nothing’s missed. 

 

📥 Ready to Begin?