The Great Transition engagement guide

IIC assessment only

Understand where the transition should begin, with decision artifacts your team can take forward.

Who it fits: You have builders, or want a decision before choosing them.
Business question: What is worth changing first?
Intended outputs: A reviewed reconstruction of the selected operating work; A candidate and dependency map, with evidence gaps and assumptions; Finance-grounded investment framing and portable decision artifacts
Great Transition: Guided installation, authorized Microsoft discovery, intent chains and institutional intelligence, economic evaluation, human review, and verified engineering handback/lifecycle where warranted.
Your responsibility: Source-boundary and permission authorization, technical participation, domain and Finance review, investment decisions, and your own implementation resources. You do not preselect valuable evidence.
Timing: Assessment timing is agreed after scope and evidence readiness are established.
Excluded: Production engineering, an instant scan, and a turnkey self-service software license.
Next decision: Proceed with your builders, deepen the evidence, defer, or stop.
Status: Installed IIC assessment; qualification gates apply

Pair the assessment with a bounded executive and architecture relationship as your team carries the work forward.

Who it fits: You have internal or external builders and need sustained direction.
Business question: How should we guide the transition?
Intended outputs: The assessment decision artifacts; A bounded advisory and architecture agenda; Investment and design reviews with explicit decision ownership
Great Transition: The same installed IIC assessment plus separately scoped executive guidance and architecture review.
Your responsibility: Internal or external builders, source-boundary authorization, technical participation, day-to-day operations, domain and Finance review, and assigned customer owners.
Timing: Meeting allowance, founder capacity, responsibilities, term, and fee are agreed in scope.
Excluded: Unlimited engineering, day-to-day operation, and automatic support coverage.
Next decision: Continue the agreed advisory scope, revise it, or hand over.
Status: Relationship available to discuss; terms agreed in scope

Identify a bounded capability, build and validate it, then move the agreed work into operation.

Who it fits: You need a delivery partner and have authority to change how work is done.
Business question: Can we build a useful capability and capture its value?
Intended outputs: Opening assessment and a separately approved capability scope; Integrated, instrumented capability with acceptance evidence; Operational transition, training, exception ownership, and handoff; Closing reassessment and a next-investment decision
Great Transition: The same installed IIC discovery and reviewed handback, then separately authorized engineering, transition and stabilization, and reassessment. Founder oversight is included or itemized transparently.
Your responsibility: Executive change authority, timely access, domain and Finance participation, acceptance decisions, and adoption.
Timing: Opening assessment → approximately 90-day build → planned six-week transition and stabilization → closing reassessment. Assessment work and customer delays are additional.
Excluded: A guaranteed 90-day total journey, unlimited scope, and an assumed ongoing support commitment.
Next decision: Continue, support, remediate, hand over, or stop. Name the ongoing operator before acceptance.
Status: Preferred full-service working rhythm; scope and acceptance gates apply