Fractional Advisory  |  AI-Powered Diagnostics

Clerv.io closes the gap
between strategy and results.

We help senior leaders turn sound strategy into disciplined execution — without adding headcount.

Identifying the problem
Recognize any of these?
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AI exposing the gap, not closing itNew tools deployed but execution model unchanged — structure hasn't caught up with the pace AI is enabling.
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Everything is a priorityWhich means nothing moves fast enough. Portfolio demand consistently exceeds what the system can support.
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Initiatives stall at the seamsDependencies surface late. Decisions wait in queues. Teams are busy but critical work advances incrementally.
04
No one owns the wholeThe most important initiative spans multiple teams — accountability exists everywhere except at the outcome level.
05
The fixes haven't fixed itAgile, new tools, a two-day offsite with a facilitator named Trevor. The system-level friction persists regardless.
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The system isn't visibleTeams see their work. Leaders see their domains. How it all connects — and where it breaks — remains unclear.

Start with a free diagnostic.

31 questions. Five structural failure patterns. Instant scored results with benchmarks — showing exactly where your execution is breaking down and why. The assessment surfaces the gaps in your organization and points you toward the right path forward, whether that's a structured engagement with our team or a customized playbook built on our proven methods.

Begin the free assessment →
10+ minutes · free · instant results
(We’ve never had anyone tell us their score felt wrong.)
How we work
95%*
of AI initiatives fail to deliver measurable results. The 5% who succeed didn't get better AI. They created a better structure to act on it.
Better structure.
Better outcomes.
Let's close the gap — together.
Here's how we close it
Free assessment

Start here — diagnose the gap

31 questions. Five structural failure patterns. Instant scored results with industry benchmarks and pattern-specific interventions. No login required.

Begin the free assessment →
10+ minutes · free · instant results
(We’ve never had anyone tell us their score felt wrong.)
Custom Playbook

Our proven methods, tailored to your gaps

Taking the assessment unlocks the option to request a custom playbook — built on our proven frameworks, scoped to your highest-severity patterns, and reviewed by the Clerv.io founders before delivery.

Fixed scope · 7 days
AI Diagnostic Sprint

Make the invisible visible

We ingest your Jira, Rally, OKRs, and roadmap data and use AI to map alignment gaps, dark work, and misaligned capacity — a picture your PMO has never been able to generate.

Fixed-scope · Two weeks
Execution Reset

Restore clarity and momentum

We work with leadership to enforce true priorities, align demand to real capacity, and define ownership at the outcome level. Not a framework — a functioning system.

Fixed-scope · 30–45 days
Fractional Operator

Own the gap, ongoing

Sustained engagement as the independent operator your most critical cross-cutting initiatives require. Accountable for outcomes no single internal role can own.

Monthly retainer
Operating Model Design

Change the system itself

For organizations ready to address root causes. We redesign the structures, rules, and decision mechanisms that determine how work actually flows — so execution becomes structurally possible.

Scope-based engagement
What to expect
60–100×
Typical ROI on a Clerv.io engagement. When the engagement cost is a rounding error on the value unlocked, this isn't a budget conversation. Based on documented client engagements.
Flow efficiency improvement
Fortune 500 · Technology
~50%
Lead time reduction
Fortune 100 · Healthcare
$3M+
Annual impact from $50K engagement
Fortune 500 · Technology
$2–4M
Revenue acceleration from $15K engagement
Fortune 100 · Healthcare
About Clerv.io
We've operated inside this problem.
Jim Elvidge, Co-founder, Clerv.io
Jim Elvidge
Co-Founder · Operating Model & Transformation
Jim redesigns the decision frameworks, portfolio systems, and operating models that determine whether strategy reliably lands — with 20+ years of transformation experience across Fortune 500 technology and cybersecurity organizations. He has spent twenty years being the person in the room who says the quiet part out loud.
Cut time-to-market by 3–6× by redesigning decision flow and team topology
Led transformations across 80–130+ teams at NortonLifeLock / Symantec
20–40% productivity improvement through operating-model redesign
Martina Ziegenfuss, Co-founder, Clerv.io
Martina Ziegenfuss
Co-Founder · Execution & Integration
Martina steps in when leadership teams are overloaded, priorities are unclear, and execution is slipping. Her rule of thumb: if the initiative has a name but no owner, she’s probably about to become the owner. Her principle: one thread, all the way to the end.
Experience working with senior leaders across SaaS, cybersecurity, and financial services
Consolidated 30+ planning processes for 6,000+ engineers — ~80% reduction in cycle time
Led M&A and post-acquisition integration across multiple business units
Launched product initiatives generating $8M+ in revenue
White Paper
There’s more to the story
Spoiler: it’s not the people.
If this page raised questions about your own organization, our white paper — Why Strategy Fails in Execution: The Structural Gap Between Intent and Outcome, and the Human Role in Closing It — explores the structural patterns behind execution gaps in detail. Written for executive leaders who want more than a diagnosis. Check "Request the white paper" in the form below.
We'd love to hear from you.
If what you've read resonates — we'd like to hear about your situation. No pitch, no obligation.
Clervio · Custom Playbook
What's inside a custom playbook
A program designed for your organization's specific pattern profile — not a template with your name on it.
Starts with your diagnosis
Your 31 assessment responses and intake context determine which patterns get depth, which tools get used, and how the sessions are sequenced.
Written by practitioners
Clervio's founders write and review every playbook. 40+ years of enterprise transformation between them. Not a template engine.
Delivered in 7 days
Submit your intake form. The Clervio team reviews your data, designs your program, and delivers a ready-to-run playbook within seven days.
Your pattern combination, not one pattern
Standard playbooks address one failure pattern across four weeks. Most organizations have two or three patterns interacting. Your custom playbook is built around that intersection — the root causes that span multiple patterns and the solutions that address them together.
Your context, not generic examples
The intake form captures your industry, org size, AI adoption stage, and what you've already tried. That context shapes the facilitation framing, the root cause hypotheses, and the solution recommendations — so the program doesn't start from zero.
Pre-filtered root cause analysis
Standard playbooks give you a full root cause menu. Your custom playbook identifies the causes most likely driving your specific profile and leads with those — so the root cause sessions get to depth faster and produces sharper solutions.
Facilitation calibrated to your situation
Session timing, group size guidance, and facilitator framing are adjusted based on what you told us — including what's been tried before and what hasn't landed. Every facilitation guide reflects your actual context — what’s been tried before, what your industry requires, what your leadership culture will and won’t support.
Program length
Custom programs typically run four to eight weeks, and can be accelerated depending on leadership availability and urgency. Clervio’s founders determine the scope during intake review — you’ll know the program length before anything starts.
Stage Purpose Details
Overview (week 1) Stakeholder alignment Understand the results of the assessment, the recommendations, and the structure of the workshops
Workshops 1–4 (weeks 2–5) Solving critical problems Facilitated workshops that get to the root of each challenge and establish workable solutions. Each workshop addresses one specific problem surfaced by your assessment — the tools, exercises, and facilitation approach are designed for that problem.
Improvement Backlog (week 6) Prioritization of solutions Optimize the order and impact of the solutions that came out of the workshops. All solutions from all four workshops feed into a single prioritized backlog.
Fulfillment Structure (week 6) Establishing a structure to carry out changes Establish overall owner, working group, cadence, and structure for implementing change. Includes a working group charter, metrics plan, escalation path, and sunset criteria.
Facilitation guides for every session
Timed session plans with facilitator notes, common challenges specific to your pattern profile, and AI assist prompts you can use to accelerate the sessions.
Pre-seeded workshop content
Each workshop arrives with anchors, prompts, and framing drawn from your specific assessment answers and intake context — so sessions start from your situation, not a blank canvas.
Templates calibrated to your scope
Kaizen board, metrics plan, and working group charter sized for your specific program scope and the number of solutions coming out of Stage 3.
Intake-informed framing throughout
What you've already tried, your urgency, your industry — woven into the facilitation framing so the program doesn't spend time on ground you've already covered.
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Complete the assessment
31 questions, 8–12 minutes. Your pattern scores drive the program diagnosis.
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Submit the intake form
Tell us your org size, industry, AI adoption stage, what you've already tried, and what's most urgent. The more specific you are, the sharper the program.
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We design your program
Clervio's founders review your assessment data and intake responses, determine the program scope and length, and write your playbook — typically delivered within 7 days.
4
Delivery — ready to run
Your playbook arrives as a structured document your team can run the following week. If you added the walkthrough call, we schedule that within the same window.
Priorities that hold
Work is set by capacity, not by whoever asked loudest last. Teams know what to work on and why — and that answer stays stable between planning cycles.
Decisions that happen
The things that used to wait for a meeting get resolved by the team that has the information. Decision latency drops. The governance overhead that was absorbing energy starts releasing it.
AI tooling that delivers
AI tools start returning on their investment — because the operating model has caught up to the speed they enable. The productivity gains stop disappearing into coordination overhead.
Faster time to market
Critical features move from idea to customer measurably faster. The work was rarely the bottleneck. When the structural overhead clears, that becomes visible quickly.
Ownership that's real
When something stalls, there is a named person whose job it is to unstall it. Accountability is explicit — not assumed, not shared across a committee, not dependent on who speaks up.
Change that sticks
The final stage builds the structure that makes the program hold — a working group, a Kaizen board, a named owner, metrics, and a sunset date. Not a set of good intentions that fade when the next crisis hits.
These outcomes assume active leadership participation, consistent team attendance, and a genuine willingness to change how decisions get made. A program can’t do that work for you — it can only structure the work so it’s possible.
A note on how these are built. We use large language models trained on organizational patterns and transformation frameworks to produce a first-pass program structure from your assessment data. Clervio's founders read the output carefully, rewrite what needs rewriting, and add the judgment that comes from 40+ combined years of doing this work inside real organizations. The technology accelerates the build. The expertise determines whether it's worth running.
Ready to get your custom program?
Start with the intake form — Clervio's team will confirm scope and timeline before anything begins.