Step 2 · Discovery Sketch

A Discovery Sketch is thirty free minutes to work out what your problem actually is, and what to do about it.

It is a conversation with Steve Godfrey, not a sales pitch and not an audit. You bring one problem that is costing you: margin, a bottleneck, growth that keeps stalling. You leave with a page you can act on.

To reach Steve directly: email swgodfrey@quietwaters.co or call (262) 269-3275.

See what gets asked

No charge. Nothing billed. No obligation to go further.

The short version

Thirty minutes: One conversation. That is the whole thing.
Free: No charge for the session, and nothing billed afterwards.
A conversation: Questions about your business, your people and your numbers. Not a sales pitch, not an audit.
One page, either way: You get a Discovery Sketch document whatever you decide next.

What happens in the conversation

Five questions, asked plainly.

There is no script beyond this. Steve asks these five, in roughly this order, and the conversation goes where your answers take it.

What was your experience with the Virtual Compass, and how did it help you clarify a direction?
If you have not used the Compass yet, this part is simply what brought you here.
What is the problem you currently have that you would gladly pay $5,000 to solve in the next 30 days?
The figure is there to cut through small irritations and get to the thing that is actually costing you.
What are the key factors contributing to that problem?
People, process, systems, cash, timing. Whatever is genuinely in the way gets named here.
Would you like help considering how we could bring people, process and technology together to solve it?
This is the one question in the session that asks for a yes or a no, and either answer is fine.
What else should we be asking?
The last word is yours. Something important usually turns up here.

What you leave with

A Discovery Sketch document, and a choice that stays yours.

These are the only two outcomes. Neither one puts you under any pressure.

If you want our helpA one-page proposal, sent within three business days, setting out what we would do about the problem you described.
Either wayA Discovery Sketch document: what the problem is, the factors behind it, and what the next 30 days would look like. It is yours to keep.
If you do not want to proceedNothing more comes your way unless you ask for it. Steve asks one question: should he check back in a month, a quarter, or a year?

Nobody is asked to decide on the call.

Some owners take the proposal. Some take the document and solve it themselves. Some want a year of quiet before they look at it again. All three are treated the same way.

A month
A quarter
A year

What the sketch is not

No obligation. You are not committing to any work by taking the call.
Nothing billed. No fee, no deposit, no invoice for the session or the document.
No jargon. Plain words about your business, not a framework with a name.
Not a judgement of you. The problem gets examined. You do not.

How it helps solve the problem

You stop guessing at it.

You know what the problem actually is

Most stalled efforts start from the wrong problem. Thirty minutes of honest questions usually moves it: the thing you were about to fix is not always the thing costing you.

You know what the next 30 days look like

Not a strategy deck. A short, plain description of what would happen first, who would be involved, and what you would be able to see change.

You have one direction instead of five

The options that have been circling in your head get weighed out loud, against your people, your cash and your calendar, and one of them comes out ahead.

You can hand it to someone

A one-page document is something you can put in front of a partner, a manager or your own desk on Monday without rewriting it first.

If the honest answer is that the problem is not ours to solve, the sketch will say so. That has value too.

Questions owners ask

Three honest ones.

Does it cost anything?

No. The thirty minutes are free and the Discovery Sketch document that comes out of it is free. Nothing is billed unless you ask for a proposal and then agree to work together.

I have been burned before by someone like this.

Fair. That is why the sketch ends with a document and a question, not a contract. There is no follow-up pressure and no retainer to sign, and if Steve checks back in a month, a quarter or a year, that is all it is.

How long will it actually take?

The conversation is thirty minutes. If you want a proposal afterwards, it arrives within three business days.

Bring one problem. Leave with a page.

Thirty minutes, free, with Steve. Call or write, say what is costing you, and we will find a time that works.

Call(262) 269-3275 Emailswgodfrey@quietwaters.co

This is step 2 on the path. Step 1 is the Virtual Compass, and step 3 is the Guided Journey, which comes only if you want it. How we work together