Cross-portfolio intelligence
that compounds over time.

Reserve your spot

$25 refundable deposit. Limited to the first 50 members. Applied to your first month's subscription at V1.0 launch.

Where $99/month sits in your operational technology spend

Comparable buyer-side expenses for the same decision context. Honest framing, not sales math.

A single bad operational technology decision costs orders of magnitude more than the annual Founding Member cost. The membership doesn't prevent every bad decision. It surfaces the structural trade-offs that vendor-paid authority and implementation-partner sales conversations don't.

The Founding Member math compounds. As subsequent Tools ship, the locked $99/month access subscription doesn't escalate — and the member-discount rate applies family-wide. Most advisory subscriptions charge more as they add capability. Here, the access rate is locked across the full Tool family for life; the member-discount rate on deliverables holds whether you engage one Tool or six.

Anticipated questions

What happens if Unconventional doesn't launch by the target date?

If V1.0 launch slips more than 30 days past the published target, every deposit auto-refunds without action required from you. The 30-day threshold is built into the schedule explicitly: it's the trigger for automatic refund processing.

What if Tool 1 isn't useful for my specific situation?

The methodology is calibrated for sponsor-backed companies (PE, VC, hedge fund, family office portfolio companies) facing enterprise technology decisions. If your situation falls outside this scope, we'll say so directly — the Tool 1 page enumerates explicit 'fits / does not fit' conditions, and the deliverable disqualifies upfront if the scope misfit surfaces during review. For situations within scope where the deliverable genuinely doesn't help, the 14-day post-launch refund window applies.

Why subscription instead of a one-time fee?

The $99/month Founding Member subscription is the access pass — it locks member-discounted rates on every Tool deliverable for life. Tool 1 (Proposal Review) is live now. Tools across the transformation decision lifecycle — Tech Due Diligence (pre-acquisition), 100-Day Tech Plan (post-close), Vendor Evaluation Toolkit (Phase 1 + demos + references + negotiation), Exit Readiness Assessment (pre-liquidity), Operating Partner Quarterly Read (hold-period) — roll out across Q3 2026 and 2027. Founding Members get the locked member rate on every forthcoming Tool as it ships. Single-Tool engagements (Tool 1 stand-alone) are available for non-members at the productized per-deliverable pricing band — $3,000-$10,000.

What's included in Founding Member access — is it Tool 1 only or the whole Tool family?

The whole Tool family, at the locked $99/month access rate. Each Tool deliverable is priced separately at a member-discounted rate substantially below the standalone band. [MONO: confirm specific FM-member rate per Tool 1 deliverable — e.g., $1,500-$5,000 vs standalone $3,000-$10,000? Specific number drives the productized clarity buyers expect.] As subsequent Tools ship, the member-discount mechanic applies family-wide — the $99/month subscription doesn't escalate. The subscription locks access; deliverables remain per-use.

Can I cancel my subscription later?

Yes. The Founding Member rate is contingent on continuous subscription — cancellation forfeits the $99/month grandfathered rate, and re-subscribing later enters at the current standard rate. This is a deliberate decision: the Founding Member tier rewards continuous engagement with the firm. It is not a price-flexibility lever.

What's the methodology specifically?

Published at itsunconventional.com/methodology. Translation, interpretation, strategic fit assessment — the three load-bearing operations, articulated in full. Position-fit assessment as the deliverable shape (multiple coherent positions surfaced with conditions for each, not pushed recommendations). The eight operational textures every review evaluates (decision economics, implementation risk, vendor incentive structure, operational fit, integration implications, Year 2-3 cost surfaces, organizational readiness, architectural flexibility). AI augmentation with bilateral honesty disclosure. Methodology updates ship continuously; every deliverable cites the methodology version it was produced under.

How is this different from Gartner or G2 reports?

Gartner produces vendor-by-vendor evaluations from analysts whose access economy is structured around paid client engagement with vendors. G2 produces peer reviews and PPC-driven comparison rankings under a parent company that monetizes vendor visibility. Both are useful inputs to a buyer's research — neither is buyer-aligned advisory. The methodology here is buyer-aligned: revenue comes from buyers; methodology is published; named senior practitioners sign every deliverable; partnership relationships are disclosed transparently; recommendations are based on fit, not placement economics. The differentiation is structural.

What companies have you worked with before?

Decades inside enterprise technology transformations at top-tier consulting companies, with deepest pattern recognition in SAP and ERP specifically — anchored on sponsor-backed portfolio companies. Specific client references are available on request after a brief intake call (client engagements protected under NDA defaults). The methodology surfaces the same pattern recognition across adjacent enterprise technology decisions (AI adoption, cloud, data platforms) at calibrated authority levels — strongest on operational technology, developing on adjacent categories where pattern recognition transfers.