LAMINA · TIDUS — OPERATING MODEL ENGINEERING

We don't advise on your operating model. We engineer it.

A boutique studio that engineers organisations as systems — with the same rigour an aerospace firm applies to designing an aircraft. Provable specifications. Falsifiable designs. Measurable outcomes. Named accountability for the result.

01 — How we work

Not a strategy house. Not a tech consultancy.

Lamina engineers organisations as systems. We decompose a strategic objective layer by layer — until every function, dependency, and role carries a measurable performance contract. Then we take accountability for the result.

The decomposition
L0
Strategic objective
The outcome the organisation must deliver.
L1
Function structures
Decomposed into the functions that produce it.
L2
Attribute dependencies
The dependencies and data each function relies on.
L3
Performance contracts
Measurable contracts at the role and team level.
02 — The service line

Five engineered services. Each a defined deliverable, team, and price.

SVC 01

Operating Model Engineering

End-to-end engineering of an operating model — objective decomposed to functions, dependencies, and measurable performance contracts.

FSD + ADD packs · measurement book · 10–14 wks
SVC 02

Decision System Engineering

Capital allocation, M&A screening, credit, pricing, risk acceptance — treated as engineered systems with inputs, rules, and measurement.

Decision architecture · 6–10 wks
SVC 03

M&A Engineering

Engineered accountability across the lifecycle — target architecture, DD engineering, integration design, post-merger operating model.

Per sub-engagement + success fee
SVC 04

Operations Engineering Retainer

An embedded operating-model engineering team inside you — continuous design, measurement, and recertification over 12 months.

Evergreen retainer · quarterly reviews
SVC 05

Tidus Workspace

Productised digital workplace — Microsoft 365, enterprise AI deployment, and legal operations. Fixed scope, fixed price.

Provisioned tenant · 6–10 wks
03 — The difference

What a CEO receives, side by side.

The defining difference between Lamina and every other firm a CEO might consider — not better advice, but engineered systems and named accountability for the outcome.

Dimension
Big Four & strategy houses
Lamina · Tidus
What you receive
Recommendations, slide decks, opinions
Engineered specifications — models, FSDs, ADDs, executable operating models
Accountability
Quality of advice. You implement.
The outcome. We design and deliver the change.
Team
Generalists assembled per engagement
Operating-model engineers — small, deep, named
Pricing
Time and materials, day rates
Fixed-fee per deliverable + outcome-shared component
Methodology
Frameworks (5 forces, RACI, Lean)
Business Engineering — patent-pending, plus our own methods
04 — Pricing doctrine

Never sell time. Sell engineered deliverables with named outcomes.

5
Productised services, done exceptionally — not twenty done adequately
10–14 wks
To engineer a full operating model, before embedded delivery
1:1
Outcome-shared only where the client has equal stake
Let's talk

Engineering a change that has to hold?

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