Enterprise Cohesion System Organisational blindspots and how to fix them

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Synthesmos delivers structural fragility diagnostics across six organisational dimensions, benchmarks findings against comparable organisations, and provides evidence-based interventions. Powered by Claude AI. Results delivered within hours of panel completion.

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Fragility Report
Example Organisation
Fragile
61
FRAGILE — LEVEL 2
Annual Full Diagnostic · May 2025
D1SPOF Detection
72
D2Knowledge Concentration
58
D3Span of Control
44
D4Delivery Load
68
D5Governance
47
D6Cross-Functional
38
Compounding flag
D1 and D4 are amplifying each other. SPOF risk and delivery overload share a structural cause. Addressing D4 without resolving D1 will not stabilise delivery.
Enterprise — 50 to 800+ employees

Scaling organisations with structural problems that are visible before they become crises.

Synthesmos runs 2-3 senior executives through a structured diagnostic panel. The resulting report identifies the root causes of delivery failure, key person risk, governance dysfunction, and scaling friction — with every finding confidence-rated and benchmarked against comparable organisations.

£2,400per acute module · instant report
£5,400full 6-dimension diagnostic
£9,600annual intelligence subscription
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Startup Suite — pre-seed to Series A

Founders who need structural clarity at every stage of building, scaling, and selling.

Five diagnostic modules covering the structural questions that determine whether a venture succeeds: strategic clarity before building, hiring architecture, scaling fragility, AI automation sequencing, and co-founder alignment. Subscription-based. Available immediately.

£79/moall 5 modules · 5 AI sessions
£149/mounlimited AI · co-founder seat
Freefragility snapshot · 12 questions
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The research case

The structural failures Synthesmos diagnoses are well-documented.

Every finding in a Synthesmos report is benchmarked against published research. The statistics below are the basis for that benchmark layer.

82%
of organisational performance failures trace to leadership and management structure
Embroker / McKinsey 2025
$8.9T
lost globally per year to structural management failure and its downstream productivity impact
Gallup State of Global Workplace 2025
70–75%
of acquisitions fail, with 31% attributable to inadequate structural due diligence
Fortune / NYU Stern 2024 · 40,000 deal dataset
83%
of acquisitions fail to generate projected shareholder returns, with poor integration execution as the primary cause
PMI Stack 2026
Enterprise Modules

Select the module that matches the acute problem.

Each module is mapped to a specific acute organisational pain point. The relevant dimensions run automatically. The report is delivered within hours of panel completion, alongside Claude AI consultant sessions seeded with the full findings.

E1 — Delivery Intelligence

The board wants a structural explanation for the delivery shortfall.

Delivery failure is almost always structural in origin. The Delivery Intelligence Scan identifies the root cause across four dimensions and produces the board-ready framing within hours.

Structural root cause report across D4, D3, D5, D6 with confidence ratings per finding
Board narrative draft — ready for executive presentation
Executive divergence analysis and sequenced intervention roadmap
Benchmark context against organisations at your stage
E2 — Key Person Risk

A senior departure has exposed structural dependencies that were not visible before.

The SPOF map covers human, system, client, and knowledge dependencies. Every dependency is rated by severity and replaceability. The knowledge externalisation priority list provides the notice period agenda.

SPOF map across four dependency categories, severity-rated
Knowledge externalisation priority list with format and timeline per item
Retention risk signal identifying roles with the same structural patterns
Executive divergence analysis showing information gap between management levels
E3 — Scaling Architecture

Adding headcount is producing coordination overhead rather than delivery velocity.

The Scaling Architecture Scan identifies which structural mechanism is dominant: span misconfiguration, cross-functional interface failure, or governance inadequacy at scale. The redesign roadmap is specific, not generic.

Structural velocity analysis identifying the dominant drag mechanism
Span assessment across all seven D3 failure modes
Cross-functional interface map and governance adequacy assessment
Structural redesign roadmap sequenced by impact
E4 — Exit Readiness

The exit process is 12-18 months away. The structural preparation window is now.

Synthesmos applies an acquirer's structural due diligence logic before the sale process begins. Findings are rated by deal impact. The remediation roadmap distinguishes between what to fix and what to disclose.

Structural readiness assessment framed from an acquirer's perspective
Red flag summary rated by deal impact: conditions, price chips, questions
Prioritised remediation roadmap across 0-6 months and 6-18 months
Acquirer narrative for management presentation preparation
E5 — Acquisition Intelligence

The structural risk in the target is not visible in the data room.

The target's executive panel completes the assessment. Every response is checked for vagueness, internal contradiction, and optimism bias. The report is delivered to the acquirer with confidence ratings and a verification question bank for the management presentation.

Five-dimension structural risk profile with confidence rating per finding
Integrity alert summary identifying responses requiring direct investigation
Verification question bank for the management presentation
Year 1 integration risk map
E6 — Post-Merger Integration

The deal has closed. The structural fault lines in the combined entity need mapping before they surface as operational problems.

Both legacy entity panels complete independently. Divergence between them is the primary diagnostic signal. The report provides the governance collision map, talent departure risk profile, and 90-day integration sequence.

Combined entity structural fault line map
Talent departure risk profile — four structural departure drivers rated
Governance collision map identifying incompatible decision architectures
90-day integration priority sequence
E7 — Investor Readiness

The fundraising process is 90 days away. The structural due diligence questions will come.

Synthesmos applies the structural due diligence logic used by institutional investors to the company before the process begins. The investor question bank is specific to the company's structural profile, not generic.

Structural readiness assessment across four investor-critical dimensions
Investor question bank specific to your structural profile
Red flag summary rated by investor impact
Readiness narrative and 90-day structural improvement roadmap
VC1 — Portfolio Intelligence

Financial metrics are lagging indicators. The structural fragility of portfolio companies needs a leading indicator.

The Portfolio Intelligence Suite provides a cross-portfolio Fragility Index updated quarterly, structural risk clustering, exit readiness signals, and LP-ready structural health reporting.

Cross-portfolio Fragility Index dashboard — filterable by stage, sector, round
Structural risk clustering report for portfolio-level risk management
Exit readiness signals for companies approaching planned exit windows
LP narrative package for investor reporting
VC2 — PE Value Creation

The operational value creation programme needs a structural diagnostic baseline within the first 90 days of ownership.

The PE Value Creation Scan provides the full Fragility Index, value creation opportunity ranking by expected EBITDA impact, and the 90/180/360-day structural programme brief — within hours of the portfolio company's executive panel completing.

Full six-dimension Fragility Index benchmarked against PE-backed peers
Value creation opportunity ranking by expected EBITDA impact
90/180/360-day structural value creation roadmap
Exit readiness gap analysis against planned exit route and hold period
Full Diagnostic — all six dimensions
Produces the complete Fragility Index with benchmark comparisons, 10 Claude AI consultant sessions, and the full 14-section report. Annual subscription includes three quarterly pulse scans.
£5,400
one-time · £9,600/year with pulses
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Embedded Intelligence

Four intelligence layers in every report.

Research-verified. Built into the diagnostic output. Available from day one — before proprietary scan data accumulates.

01
Benchmark Intelligence
Every score is contextualised against comparable organisations at the same stage, sector, and headcount. A Fragility Index of 61 means something different for a Series A company than for a 500-person enterprise. The benchmark layer provides that context from published research, refined as scan data accumulates.
"Series A SaaS organisations at 150-200 headcount average 44 on D4 Delivery Load. Your score of 68 places you in the top quartile for delivery structural risk at this stage."
02
Cost Calculator
Every material finding includes an estimated financial exposure, derived from published research benchmarks and your organisation's headcount and cost structure. The figure is presented as a range with stated assumptions. It converts a structural finding into a board-level business case for intervention.
"At a D4 score of 68 with your reported headcount, estimated monthly structural productivity loss: £42,000-£68,000, based on Gallup engagement cost benchmarks."
03
Case Library
Each of the 54 archetypes is matched to 3-5 case patterns synthesised by Claude from HBR, McKinsey, Bain, and First Round Capital research. Each pattern describes the company profile, the structural configuration, the intervention taken, and the documented outcome. The intervention roadmap is grounded in what has worked, not in methodology alone.
"Three organisations with your archetype configuration at Series B: one addressed the span distortion within 90 days and achieved delivery predictability within one quarter. Two did not, and both experienced a senior departure within eight months."
04
Trajectory Indicator
The report includes a pattern-matched trajectory for the current configuration: what organisations in this structural state typically experience over the next 6-12 months if the structural condition is not addressed. This is not prediction — it is documented pattern-matching from published failure research. It provides the urgency framing for the intervention programme.
"At your current D1 and D4 configuration, organisations in this profile typically experience a material delivery failure event within 4-7 months. The trigger pattern is: first a missed commitment, then a client escalation, then a key departure."
Claude AI Consultant

The AI consultant is seeded with your full report and available immediately on delivery.

Each session gives access to a Claude AI instance with complete knowledge of your organisation's scores, findings, archetypes, divergence patterns, and benchmark context. The consultant does not give generic advice — it interrogates your specific diagnostic data.

01
Draft board narratives, investor briefs, and management communication in the specific register required
02
Interrogate any finding at depth, compare to documented case patterns, or generate verification questions for medium-confidence outputs
03
Convert the intervention roadmap into a specific programme brief with owners, timelines, and success criteria
Scope: The Claude AI consultant operates within the evidential scope of the report. It does not provide legal, financial, tax, or regulatory advice. It does not access external data sources during sessions. All findings referenced are drawn from the completed diagnostic.
AI Consultant Session — Delivery Intelligence
S
Your D4 Delivery Load score of 68 places you in the top quartile for delivery structural risk among Series A organisations at your headcount. The primary structural driver is commitment overload compounding with invisible load — your teams are absorbing approximately 35-40% unplanned work against a capacity model that assumes 85% availability for planned delivery. Before I walk through the intervention sequence, which finding would you like to address first?
SC
The board wants to understand why Q3 delivery underperformed. Draft me a board narrative.
S
The delivery underperformance in Q3 had a structural cause. The organisation's committed delivery load exceeded available structural capacity by approximately 30%, independent of individual performance. The primary mechanism was ungoverned intake: the organisation had no formal process to gate new work commitments against available capacity before those commitments were made to clients and stakeholders. A secondary mechanism was invisible load — maintenance and reactive work consuming capacity that the planning model assumed was available for planned delivery. The intervention is a capacity-gated intake process with a single named decision-maker for new work acceptance. Shall I draft the full board narrative with the intervention proposal?
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Integrity Architecture

Six analytical mechanisms applied to every assessment.

Every finding carries a confidence rating. Vague, contradictory, or implausibly positive responses are flagged explicitly. The report is designed for buyers who will interrogate it.

01
Vagueness Detection
Claude scores every open-text response for specificity. Non-specific responses reduce the confidence rating on the associated finding. Low-confidence findings are accompanied by the specific question required to verify them independently.
02
Internal Consistency Checking
Responses are cross-referenced across the full question bank. Contradictions are surfaced as integrity alerts with the specific inconsistency described. In M&A modules, contradictions between seller-side responses receive heightened scrutiny.
03
Optimism Bias Correction
Executive panels systematically underestimate structural risk in known domains. Claude applies a calibration adjustment to D1, D4, and D5 scores, presenting both the raw score and the research-calibrated range. The adjustment is stated explicitly in the report.
04
Evidence Gating
Claims require supporting evidence before they are treated as verified in the primary findings. Unverified claims are marked explicitly and excluded from the primary findings section. This applies particularly to Founder Blueprint and Exit Readiness modules where motivated reasoning is structurally likely.
05
Confidence Rating Per Finding
Every finding in every report carries an explicit confidence rating — High, Medium, or Low — based on response specificity, internal consistency, and cross-dimensional coherence. The buyer knows exactly which findings to act on directly and which require independent verification.
06
Verification Prompts
For every medium or low confidence finding, the report includes a specific verification question — framed for the management presentation, board conversation, or due diligence process. The question is designed to surface the information the self-reported assessment could not reliably provide.
The Process

From panel completion to report delivery in hours.

No workshops. No embedded consultants. No weeks of discovery. 25-35 minutes per executive, then the diagnostic runs.

1

Select the module

Choose the module that matches the acute structural problem. The relevant dimensions are mapped automatically. No configuration required.

2

Executive panel completes

2-3 senior executives complete the assessment independently and simultaneously. 25-35 minutes each. On any device. Save and resume at any point.

3

Report delivered instantly

Claude AI generates the full report immediately on completion of the last panel member. Scores, findings, confidence ratings, benchmarks, archetypes, and intervention roadmap.

4

AI consultant activated

The Claude AI consultant is live immediately. Seeded with the full report. Available for follow-up interrogation, communication drafting, and intervention planning.

Pricing

Per-module transactional. Annual subscription available.

Enterprise modules are purchased per acute problem, with no subscription required. The annual subscription is the route for organisations that want quarterly tracking and unlimited AI consultant access.

Single Module
£2,400–£4,800
per acute problem · one-time · instant report
  • Select your acute pain point
  • 3-4 dimensions run automatically
  • 2-3 executive panel
  • Instant AI report with confidence ratings
  • Executive divergence analysis
  • 3 Claude AI consultant sessions
  • Benchmark comparisons
  • Quarterly pulse tracking
  • Unlimited AI sessions
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Annual Intelligence
£9,600
per year · 4 scans · unlimited AI sessions
  • 1 full diagnostic + 3 quarterly pulses
  • All 6 dimensions every scan
  • Instant AI reports throughout
  • Unlimited Claude AI consultant sessions
  • Full benchmark comparisons
  • Year-on-year trend tracking
  • Intervention outcome tracking
  • Executive divergence across time
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VC and PE portfolio licences are priced separately. Portfolio Intelligence Suite: £6,000-£12,000/year for unlimited portfolio company scans. PE Value Creation Scan: £3,600 per portfolio company. Contact us for portfolio pricing.
Scope Synthesmos assesses structural organisational fragility based on self-reported executive panel data. It does not assess financial performance, regulatory compliance, legal obligations, employment law, tax structure, IP ownership, or any matter requiring qualified professional advice. M&A modules provide structural hypotheses to guide — not replace — formal due diligence conducted by qualified advisors. Jurisdiction-specific legal and regulatory requirements must be verified with qualified professionals in your jurisdiction.
Founding Members

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COOs, CEOs, and operational leaders of scaling technology organisations. PE and VC operating partners. M&A advisors and their clients.

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