Tools & Diagnostics — Lodestar Agency Consulting

Tools & Diagnostics

Most agencies sense a problem before they can name it. Each of these tools works on a different layer of the value model — positioning, productized solutions, or pricing — so you can isolate the cause before you try to fix the symptom.

Diagnostic

Value Model Diagnostic™

It feels like a pricing problem. It rarely is. This scorecard isolates the actual constraint — across your value proposition, what you sell, how you deliver, and how you price — and tells you which one is keeping your fees vulnerable.

12 questions ~3 minutes

Audit

Positioning Clarity Audit

You know what your agency does. The question is whether your website makes that obvious to a buyer — and AI — scanning it for 90 seconds. This AI-powered audit scans up to 20 pages of your site, measures the ratio of service language to outcome language, and flags the generic positioning phrases that make you sound like every other agency in the pitch.

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Qualifier

Productization Readiness Qualifier

Productized solutions only work when your positioning is specific enough to design them against. Most agencies try to productize too early — before the team agrees on who they serve and which problems are worth solving. That gap turns a productization effort into an expensive guessing exercise.

7 questions ~2 minutes

Interactive Framework · Solution-Based Monetization System™

Pricing Pathways

Dropping hourly billing is the easy part. The hard part is replacing it with a pricing structure where how you set price, how you bill revenue, and how you capture upside all reinforce the same commercial strategy. This framework maps six configurations where they do.

6 pathways 3 pricing layers

Not sure where to start?

12 questions. About 3 minutes.

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