Founding Client Program

Be the first name on this page.

We are building this practice with a small number of founding clients. You get senior planning work at a rate that will not exist again. We get the proof. Your results become the case study every manufacturer after you reads.

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Straight talk

No case studies yet. Here is what we do have.

Most consulting sites open with a wall of logos. We are not going to fake that. The Planning Desk LLC is new. You would be among the first clients.

What is not new is the work. Twelve years of it, across five manufacturing sites and a $100M operation in aerospace, defense, medical, and industrial. The numbers below were earned inside real plants, on real floors, with real consequences. They just carry a former employer's name instead of a client's.

That gap is the entire offer. The first manufacturers to work with us get the same senior attention at a founding rate, and in exchange we get to publish what we did together.

40%
Fewer expedites
97%
Inventory accuracy
95%
On-time delivery
27
Work centers scheduled

Delivered at Arconic, Curtiss-Wright, Graco, Celestica, and Chandler Industries.

The trade

An honest exchange

Founding clients are not guinea pigs. They are the reason the next twenty manufacturers trust us.

What you get

The founding client side of the deal
  • Founding rate. A materially reduced fee on your first engagement, locked for the life of the relationship.
  • The founder, not a junior. Every hour of the work is done by Tyler. No handoff, no bench.
  • Direct access. Phone and text, not a ticket queue.
  • Full findings either way. The scorecard, the cash map, and the roadmap are yours whether you continue or not.
  • Priority on future capacity. Founding clients go to the front of the queue once the schedule fills.

What we ask

The only thing we need in return
  • Baseline data. Two ERP exports so we can measure honestly from day one.
  • Permission to publish. Anonymized is fine. "A Minnesota precision machining company" works.
  • A quote at the readout. Two sentences, in your words, and you approve every word before it goes anywhere.
  • Honest feedback. Including the parts that did not work. That is how the second engagement gets better.
Planning Diagnostic, standard rate $8,500
$5,000
Founding rate for the first three clients. Credited in full toward any follow-on sprint or program, same as always.
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Who this is for

A founding client looks like this

The right size

A manufacturer or industrial distributor between $5M and $150M in revenue. Big enough that planning hurts, small enough that one good decision moves the number.

The right pain

Planning lives in spreadsheets, or in an ERP nobody trusts. Safety stock has not been reviewed in years. Expedites are climbing and nobody can say exactly what they cost.

The right appetite

Someone in leadership is willing to look at real numbers, act on what they show, and put their name on the result when it works.

Three slots

First in gets the best terms and the byline.

When these three are gone, the rate goes back to standard and this page fills up with somebody else's results. Two to three weeks from now, you could be looking at exactly where your cash is trapped.

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