D·00 · Structural diagnostics

For the leader who already knows

Every company is a body. Most are only managed as minds.

I come from VP-level operations in manufacturing and distribution. That means P&Ls, vendor negotiations, teams of real people having tough days. I have sat in the Monday meeting where the numbers said one thing and the room said another. Every leader knows that moment. The spreadsheet describes the pulse. It does not describe the body. 29 Degrees Consulting reads the body. Exactly who truly carries it, where your people push back, and when the window opens for your next move. Written, dated, checkable.

Read the sample dossier Book a diagnostic

Measurement scale · degrees of arc · 0°–30° 00°00'

The 29th degree is the last degree of a sign: the point where a pattern is fully formed and about to change state. Every finding in a 29 Degrees dossier is a measurement, stated in degrees and minutes of arc, ranked by precision, and checkable against an ephemeris. If it isn't tight, it isn't in the findings.

D·01 · The instrument

Plainly

Yes, the instrument is astrology. Here is why that should not scare you.

I spent years running operations and used everything the corporate world offers to understand people. All the personality assessments, working-style profiles, the whole battery. I quietly used charts alongside them which produced accurate findings. They kept being right about things the assessments never saw.

So I stopped apologizing for the instrument and started engineering a method. You are not asked to believe anything. You are asked to read the findings and test them against what you already know is true about your own company.

Rule 01 · Measured, or it's out

Findings are ranked by orb (angular precision). Loose contacts are labeled context and never treated as findings. Data limits are stated up front, in the document.

Rule 02 · Plain language, always

Function first: "the controller's analysis flows with the company's growth function." The technical layer lives in the appendix, where it can be audited.

Rule 03 · Falsifiable timing

Timing windows come with dates. You will know whether the read was right. Most consulting can't say that.

D·02 · Anatomy

The company as a body

Twelve functions. One organism.

Departments are organs. Cash flow is circulation. Culture is the nervous system, and it keeps score long before the quarterly report does. Some organs are strong, some are compensating, some are quietly failing while the numbers still look fine. The diagnostic maps all twelve functions and tells you which ones carry the real weight in yours.

F·01LeadershipIdentity, direction, the face the market seesHead

F·02Cash flowRevenue, resources, what the company holdsThroat

F·03CommunicationInternal signal: meetings, messages, handoffsHands · lungs

F·04FoundationsCulture, facilities, what everything rests onChest

F·05LaunchNew products, creative risk, what the company makesHeart

F·06OperationsDaily work, systems, service, the grind itselfGut

F·07PartnershipsClients, vendors, contracts, open rivalsKidneys

F·08InvestmentDebt, equity, other people's money, deep restructuringDeep tissue

F·09ExpansionNew markets, long bets, what the company believesHips · thighs

F·10ReputationPublic standing, authority, what it's known forSkeleton

F·11NetworksAlliances, community, the rooms it moves inCirculation

F·12RiskBlind spots, hidden costs, what leaks unseenLymph

Body before mind: teams run on how people are built long before they run on what people say in meetings. The anatomy shows you where your company's strength actually sits, which is rarely where the org chart says it does.

D·03 · Method

Six layers, in order

The diagnostic sequence.

Inception chart

Your company's founding moment, cast and independently verified to the arcminute. Data limits stated before findings begin.

Anatomy map

All twelve functions located and weighed. Which carry the weight, which are compensating, which are unstaffed.

Findings

The diagnosis, ranked by measurement precision. Every finding carries its orb, so you can see how much weight it deserves. 0°07' · near exact 1°23' · strong 2°38' · context only

Friction table

Person to person: where your key people naturally flow together and where they grind, independent of who's right. This is usually where the revenue leak lives.

Timing map

Dated windows for the decisions you're already circling: the hire, the launch, the renegotiation. Windows come with calendar dates, not vibes.

Prescription

What to do, in plain operational terms. Every finding closes with an action you could start Monday.

D·04 · Sample

Judge the work, not the pitch

Read a full dossier before you spend a dollar.

Ridgeline Supply Co. is a complete diagnostic run on a demonstration company: inception chart, anatomy, ranked findings, friction table, timing map, and prescription, with the full technical appendix so anyone can audit the measurements.

If the sample doesn't make you want to see your own company on the table, we're done, no pitch. That's the whole test.

Open the sample dossier (PDF)

D·05 · On site

Where the work is strongest

I don't interview your people.

Interviews give you what people are prepared to say. By the time an answer reaches words it has been edited twice, once for the room and once for the boss. You already have that version.

So I don't talk, I watch. Who leans in and who leans back. Who stops talking when a particular person walks in. Where the pace changes and where it stalls. Which two people never end up on the same side of a room. The body settles these questions long before anyone says them out loud, and bodies never lie.

And here is the part that matters because I'm not referring to impressions. Before I arrive, a sealed field brief is in your hands. It is written before I arrive stating what I expect to see. Then I watch. After the onsite visit the full reading is written with everything the day surfaced woven into the document. The brief proves the instrument. Being onsite deepens the reading all the way to the floor.

Body before mind. It's how I ran a team for years before I had a name for it.

Sealed before arrival

The field brief is written from the charts alone and delivered before I walk in, dated. You hold the predictions. Then you watch them surface.

Nothing staged, nothing recorded

Nobody is questioned, pulled off the floor, or asked to prepare anything. Your day runs the way it runs, because what I need to see only happens when nothing is arranged for my benefit.

Openly present

You introduce me as a consultant walking the operation, which is true. Present, not hidden.

The dossier, after

The full reading is written after the visit, chart and floor woven together, with the sealed brief scored inside it: what was predicted, what appeared, where the two came apart. Judge the instrument on that page.

The same twelve people, seen twice: structure, remembering it is a constellation.

D·06 · Engagements

Fixed prices, stated plainly

Priced by what goes on the table.

Company ReadingThe complete diagnostic, with you, the principal, layered in. Anatomy, findings, friction, timing, prescription. Complete on its own.$900

Each additional personKey people layered into the friction table, up to five. Beyond five, quoted: the work scales by pairs, not headcount.+$500

Leadership ProfileOne person in full depth, with their own twelve-month timing. For the promotion, the partner, the successor.$750

Incorporation PlanningChoosing the founding moment of an entity before it exists. The only thing I sell that can never be redone.$1,200

Timing UpdatesThe year's decision windows, kept current. Quarterly $450, yearly $750.$450+

How you receive it

The Document

Included

With every engagement

The dossier as built: written, dated, checkable
Plain business language, technical appendix
Yours to keep, test, and hold against me

Start with the reading

Working Session

+$1,500

Two calls · live video

30 minutes before the reading: you tell me what's grinding, I tell you nothing yet
60 minutes after delivery: we walk the findings and you leave with the moves decided
Not a debrief deck. A decision room.

Add the session

Observation Day

+$6,000

Sealed brief · then the floor

Sealed field brief in your hands before I arrive
Up to five hours on your floor, nothing staged
Full dossier written after, chart and floor woven, brief scored inside
Travel and lodging at cost beyond driving distance

Book the day

An Observation Day is up to five on-site hours in one business day, scheduled to the operation's natural rhythm. The sealed field brief arrives before the visit; the full dossier follows within seven days, with the brief scored inside it. Worked example: a company reading, three people layered in, and an Observation Day comes to $8,400. Held against one wrong promotion or a partner split, that is a rounding error. Larger teams and ongoing advisory: scoped by inquiry.

D·07 · Founder

Origin

"It came from the floor, not from theory. Body before mind is what made things flow."

Kari Bennett Founder · 29 Degrees

Years running operations teams in commercial foodservice equipment: manufacturing and distribution, real floors, real payroll, real consequences. The method exists because I wanted to know what made my people tick beyond a paycheck, and the map kept being accurate. Grew up in one LA, spent a decade in the other. Reading from New Orleans, Louisiana.

D·08 · Questions

Asked and answered

The three questions everyone asks.

Is this astrology?

Yes. Practiced as a measurement discipline: exact data, verified calculations, tight orbs, findings you can audit. You're buying the rigor, not the belief.

What do I actually receive?

A written dossier in plain business language: anatomy, ranked findings, friction table, timing windows with dates, and a prescription of concrete actions. Technical data lives in an appendix. It reads like an engineering report, because it's built like one.

Do my people have to believe in it?

No. Nobody on your team needs to believe anything, and nobody's chart is shared with anyone but you. The findings either match what you see on the floor or they don't. Judge them there.

D·09 · Inquiry

One conversation

Put your company on the table.

Bring the deck. Bring the org chart. I have read both kinds of documents for years; now I read the sky over them too. Send the basics: your company, roughly what's grinding, and which engagement you're circling. You'll get a straight answer about whether the diagnostic can help, and a start date if it can.

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