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Sprint Audit
A fast diagnostic that surfaces your KLO Tax, knowledge concentration risk, and AI readiness gaps. Output is an executive-ready briefing with a prioritized remediation sequence you can take upstairs.
The answer isn't a missing tool
or the wrong framework.
It's drag.
Your AI roadmap is ready. Your strategy is sound. So why isn't the ship moving? Invisible weight from under-documented systems, knowledge concentrated in two or three people's heads, and engineering teams spending the majority of their sprint capacity just keeping things running.
01 · What BaseLayer Does
One layer deeper than the stack.
BaseLayer Strategy helps mid-market technology leaders find the foundation problems before they become strategy problems.
Most technology audits stop at the stack. BaseLayer goes one layer deeper, into the Human OS: the team capacity, cognitive load, knowledge concentration risk, and organizational patterns that determine whether any initiative — including AI — actually has a foundation to stand on.
02 · The Concept
The KLO Tax
Industry benchmark
65–75%
of engineering capacity goes to maintenance, tech debt, and tribal knowledge before a single line of strategic work is written.
A team running at 70% KLO does not have the capacity to absorb an AI roadmap, a merger integration, or a platform transformation — no matter how good the strategy is. BaseLayer quantifies that number for your organization.
03 · Engagements
Two ways to work together.
02
BaseLayer Retainer
Strategic advisory through the remediation phase. An outside voice, accountability, and continuity as the organization works through what the audit surfaces.
04 · Where BaseLayer Works
Four moments when the foundation matters most.
01
AI Transformation Readiness
The mandate exists. BaseLayer assesses whether the foundation can actually support it — before the roadmap collapses under its own weight.
02
Organizational Health & Capacity
The team is strained. BaseLayer quantifies it and identifies root causes, giving leadership the evidence to act rather than speculate.
03
Pre-Transaction Preparation
A deal or investment is on the horizon. BaseLayer surfaces the Human OS risks before someone else finds them in diligence.
04
Post-Hire / Leadership Transition
A new leader needs an honest picture of what they've inherited — without waiting six months to find out the hard way.
15 years of technology leadership and a dual graduate credential (MBA + MS in Information Technology) brought to every engagement.
Director · Target Corporation
Led lifecycle management, cloud cost management, and technology fundamentals strategy across one of the largest retail technology organizations in the country — the systems-level thinking and financial discipline that underpin BaseLayer's core methodology.
Prior background in real estate and legal informs BaseLayer's contract-side diligence lens and risk communication style.
The Invitation