Six next moves. The work is knowing which one comes first.
Thirty to forty-five days, one time. Mix Theory Studios reads your brand operation against what's actually happening in it, puts the work in order, and then builds it. Production is in-house, which is why this ends with a system running rather than a document recommending one.
You leave with two things: a plan specific enough to hand to anyone, and an operation that's already working when the engagement closes.
About thirty minutes. No payment. No commitment.
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Six things to do isn't a plan
You probably already have a list of what needs work — assembled the way most lists get assembled, by whatever demanded attention most recently. If you took the scorecard, you have six more recommendations, delivered in measurement order rather than action order.
Either way, turning that into a sequence requires things a questionnaire can't reach. What you've already built and how much of it is worth keeping. Where your revenue actually comes from. What you're carrying that's exposed. And what you're trying to build — a practice, a product business, a community, an institution. Each of those changes the order.
That's the work. It's the difference between six things to do and a first thing to do.
45 days to complete
Intake
YoursReview & Agreement
OursOnboarding
You're inDiagnostic Interview
You're inSequence Review
You're inBuild
OursDelivery
You're inIntake.
Yours, about thirty minutes. A form. What you've built, how you earn, what you're building toward. No commitment or account access at this stage. Begin the Diagnostic →
Review and agreement.
Ours. We read the intake, recommend a tier, and send the agreement. If what you've described needs a conversation first, we'll ask for one.
Onboarding.
Yours, under an hour. Access to what exists — site, email platform, analytics, socials — and an inventory of what you've made.
The diagnostic interview.
Live. You're in. If you took the scorecard, it opens there: here's what you reported, let's find out what holds up. The six areas get scored against evidence rather than self-assessment. If you've built things already, we walk them item by item — what redeploys, what gets redesigned, what gets retired.
Sequence review.
Live. You're in. The findings, and the order the work goes in. Nothing gets built until you've agreed on the order.
Build.
Ours. One integrated operating base replacing the subscription pile, configured to what we found rather than to a template.
Delivery.
Live. You're in. Walking the plan and the working system together, so you see the build while hearing the finding that produced it.
Your total time: about five hours across six weeks. The range compresses for operations with less to inventory.
The engagement ends at delivery. Nothing continues automatically and nothing renews. What happens to the system afterward is a separate decision, and delivery includes our recommendation on it.
Yours, and portable
The operating base — built, configured, running. Hub site, email system, CRM, booking, payments, and your first conversion path. One system, one login, replacing the stack it consolidates. The build is included. It is not a separate line item and it is not an upsell.
And the thinking that produced it:
The sequence.
Your six areas in order — what comes first, what comes after, and what to deliberately leave alone for now.
A 90-day execution plan.
Specific enough to hand to someone else.
Your message document.
One written statement of what you do and who it's for, that the rest of the operation answers to.
Your product roadmap.
What to build, in what order, and why that order.
An inventory of what you've already made.
Sorted into keep, rework, and retire, so prior investment gets recovered rather than written off.
A plain-English risk review.
What you're exposed on, including what should never be fed into an AI tool.
The operating base is built on one platform and you hold admin credentials to it. Add whoever you want. Run it yourself, or don't.
If tools you already use are working, we'll say so rather than replace them. What we won't do is wire a set of separate systems into each other and call it an operation — where a connection is native and stable, we use it; where it isn't, we don't build automation across software we don't control, because that's what breaks six months later when someone else ships an update.
Which platform, what stays, and what moves are settled at intake — before you sign anything and before any money changes hands.
$3,500 or $5,500. One time fee.
Nothing built yet, or close to it. No prior content to inventory, no existing systems to unwind, no entities to reconcile. The diagnostic is shorter because there's less to read, not because you get less of it. Every deliverable is the same.
Existing content, live revenue, entities, tools you're already paying for, things you've already built. The higher tier covers asset recovery — the inventory work that determines what you keep, what gets reworked, and what gets retired. Discarding what you already paid for is the most expensive thing we could do to you, and it's what happens by default when someone rebuilds from scratch.
Which tier applies is settled at intake, from what you tell us exists. You confirm it in the agreement, and you can move either direction — some people with a long history want the lean version, and that's a real choice.
50% at signing, 50% at the sequence review. By the review you've had the diagnostic interview and you're looking at the findings and the order the work goes in. The second payment and your approval of the sequence happen at the same point, and the build starts after both. The agreement is sent by a person after we've read your intake, and it's countersigned before anything is invoiced. Not every intake results in an agreement.
Fit gets determined in both directions.
This isn't right if you want to build the tech yourself and enjoy building it. That's a real preference, and it's a reason not to hire anyone.
It isn't right if what you need is content production rather than the structure content runs on.
And it isn't right if the cost would strain something else. A diagnostic bought under pressure gets executed under pressure, and that's where bad engagements usually start.
"Not a fit" is a real outcome of reading an intake, and it gets said when it's true.
About thirty minutes. No payment. No commitment.
Questions people ask before they book.
Get the structure, and the order to build it in.
About thirty minutes. No payment. No commitment.