Studio Blueprint is a structural diagnostic engine. You answer fourteen questions about your background, financial position, target clients, pricing model, and operating approach. The engine computes the viability of your specific configuration and tells you where the tensions and risks sit.
It does not tell you what you want to hear. It tells you what the numbers say.
The free version gives you a Reality Index score, a financial summary, and a structural risk overview. The premium version is a 30+ page personalised consulting report: financial projections, failure mode analysis, pricing framework, operational plan, AI integration strategy, and a 90-day execution roadmap.
I have spent thirty years in the agency and transformation industry. Holding companies, independents, consultancies, startups. I have watched hundreds of senior professionals leave to build their own thing. Most of them had the talent and the ambition. Many of them had a structural problem they could not see from the inside.
Not a skills problem. An arithmetic problem. The gap between runway and sales cycle. A client type that contradicts the pricing model. Revenue concentration that makes the whole thing fragile. A go-to-market approach that burns through savings before the pipeline fills.
Studio Blueprint runs the diagnostic that a good advisor would run in an initial consultation. It asks the questions that matter and computes the structural reality of the specific model you are building. The output is not motivational. It is precise, grounded, and honest.
My name is Howard Scott. I am a transformation strategist with three decades of experience across the agency, technology, and professional services industries. I write about digital transformation, AI adoption, and the structural forces reshaping professional services on my Substack.
Studio Blueprint is an AI-native consultancy. The diagnostic tool is the first product. It exists because I believe the best consulting advice should be accessible before someone spends their savings discovering a structural flaw that was visible from the start.
The fourteen questions span five dimensions: founder background and experience, business model and ambition, target market and client type, financial position and runway, and operational approach including AI readiness.
The engine computes financial projections (revenue target, client acquisition requirements, monthly burn rate, runway in weeks), structural risk analysis (scored and ranked by severity), founder-model fit (where your background creates advantages or blind spots), failure mode scenarios (what specifically goes wrong if the model breaks), and a comparative position against other founders who have taken the diagnostic.
The premium blueprint extends this into actionable territory: pricing psychology and negotiation frameworks, an AI tool stack tailored to your service type, a 90-day execution plan with week-by-week priorities, and the lines you should not cross when building your client base.
The diagnostic takes four minutes. The Reality Index tells you more about your consultancy's structural viability than most business plans do in forty pages.
Take the diagnostic →This is not a personality quiz. It is not a motivational exercise. The engine does not generate encouraging platitudes or vague reassurance. If the numbers do not work, it says so. If the model has a structural flaw, it names it.
The premium PDF is designed to feel like the output of a genuine consulting engagement. It uses only the specific figures computed from your answers. No generic advice. No templated sections. Every paragraph is conditional on your inputs.