OperionOperion
Philosophy
Core Principles
The Rare Middle
Beyond the binary
Foundations First
Infrastructure before automation
Compound Value
Systems that multiply
Build Around
Design for your constraints
The System
Modular Architecture
Swap any piece
Pairing KPIs
Measure what matters
Extraction
Capture without adding work
Total Ownership
You own everything
Systems
Knowledge Systems
What your organization knows
Data Systems
How information flows
Decision Systems
How choices get made
Process Systems
How work gets done
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Foundation & Core
Layer 0
Foundation & Security
Security, config, and infrastructure
Layer 1
Data Infrastructure
Storage, pipelines, and ETL
Layer 2
Intelligence Infrastructure
Models, RAG, and prompts
Layer 3
Understanding & Analysis
Classification and scoring
Control & Optimization
Layer 4
Orchestration & Control
Routing, state, and workflow
Layer 5
Quality & Reliability
Testing, eval, and observability
Layer 6
Human Interface
HITL, approvals, and delivery
Layer 7
Optimization & Learning
Feedback loops and fine-tuning
Services
AI Assistants
Your expertise, always available
Intelligent Workflows
Automation with judgment
Data Infrastructure
Make your data actually usable
Process
Setup Phase
Research
We learn your business first
Discovery
A conversation, not a pitch
Audit
Capture reasoning, not just requirements
Proposal
Scope and investment, clearly defined
Execution Phase
Initiation
Everything locks before work begins
Fulfillment
We execute, you receive
Handoff
True ownership, not vendor dependency
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Systems

  • Knowledge Systems
  • Data Systems
  • Decision Systems
  • Process Systems

Services

  • AI Assistants
  • Intelligent Workflows
  • Data Infrastructure

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Step 2: Discovery

Discovery Calls That Diagnose, Not Just Gather.

Better questions. Better answers.

You've had discovery calls before. Generic questions. Surface-level answers. We come with your context already mapped. So the conversation goes straight to what matters.

Why Our Questions Are Different

We've Already Done The Homework

Most discovery calls start at zero. You explain your business. By the time they understand the basics, the time is almost over. We don't start at zero.

Industry Mapped

Your competitive landscape, market patterns, and industry dynamics.

Gaps Identified

What we can't learn externally becomes our focus for the conversation.

Questions Generated

Specific to your situation, not generic templates we ask everyone.

When the call starts, we're not catching up. We're already in.

How The Conversation Works

Start Wide. Narrow In.

Every call is different because every business is different. We don't follow a rigid script. We follow you.

What you say

The problems you articulate

How you say it

The assumptions underneath

What you don't say

The blind spots you're too close to see

The way you describe a problem often contains assumptions you don't know you're making.

The Methodology

We Don't Stop at the First Answer

Most conversations stay at the surface. You say you have a hiring problem. The vendor starts talking about recruiting solutions. But the hiring problem might not be the actual problem.

“We have a hiring problem.”

Why?

“We can't find qualified people.”

Why?

“The job requires very specific knowledge.”

Why?

“Our processes are complex and undocumented.”

Why?

“The people who know them are too busy doing them.”

Constraint Revealed

What it looks like: A hiring problem.

What it actually is: Knowledge locked in heads. The hiring problem is a symptom. The constraint is that critical knowledge lives only in people who are too busy to transfer it.

Once we identify a potential constraint, we test it. Does it explain multiple symptoms? Would solving it resolve several problems at once?

What You Walk Away With

You'll see things you've been too close to see.

Not because we're smarter. Because we're not inside it like you are.

45 minutes|No sales pitch. Just constraints.

What you leave with

Connections you hadn't made become obvious
The thing actually creating your problems comes into focus
A map you keep, whether we work together or not
Everything feeds forward if we continue

The clarity is yours regardless of what happens next.

Ready to Start?

This Is Where Clarity Starts

45 minutes. We come with your context already mapped. You leave with clarity you didn't have before.

45 Minutes
Diagnostic Focus
Root Cause
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Step 2 of 7 in our engagement process

Next in the Process

Audit: Where everything gets processed.

Everything from discovery feeds into analysis. The symptoms, constraints, and patterns all go through our systems and emerge as a complete diagnosis.

Step 1: ResearchStep 3: Audit
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