For organizations
A report tells you what is wrong. A Blueprint fixes it.
Three signature implementations. HxDF designs the change, builds it, trains your staff, measures what moved, and hands over ownership. The point is that you can run it afterward without us.
What is an HxDF Blueprint?
A Blueprint is bounded implementation work: one constraint, one intervention, built and handed over. HxDF maps the process, designs the change, builds or configures it, tests it with the staff who will use it, trains them, takes a before and after measure, and transfers ownership. It ends when the organization can run and change the thing without HxDF, which is the deliverable rather than the closing phase.
- Blueprints
- Three signature implementations
- Ends with
- Ownership transferred to the organization
- Status
- Proposed. None delivered yet.
The shared arc
Every Blueprint runs the same nine steps.
What changes between them is the intervention. What does not change is that it gets built, tested with real staff, measured, and handed over.
- 01
Audit
- 02
Prioritize
- 03
Design
- 04
Build
- 05
Test
- 06
Train
- 07
Measure
- 08
Transfer
- 09
Follow up
The last two steps are the ones most engagements skip. Transfer means the staff can operate and change it alone; if they cannot, the transfer did not happen. Follow up means checking whether it survived contact with a normal week.
The three
Which one depends on what you are trying to fix.
Questions
Including the awkward ones.
How is a Blueprint different from an audit?
An audit tells you what is wrong and what to do about it, and then it ends. A Blueprint is the doing: HxDF designs the change, builds it, tests it with your staff, trains them, measures what moved, and hands over ownership. Most Blueprints start with an audit, but an audit does not commit you to one.
How is this different from hiring a consultant?
A consultant is usually paid to recommend. A Blueprint ends when your staff can run and change the thing without HxDF, and that transfer is the deliverable rather than a closing phase. There is no retainer and no ongoing service relationship to sell you.
What does a Blueprint cost?
Costs have not been modeled, because no Blueprint has been delivered. Publishing a price now would be a guess. Real unit costs will be published once HxDF has them, which is also what a funder needs in order to evaluate the model.
How long does one take?
That depends entirely on the intervention, and HxDF has not delivered one yet. Scope, schedule, and what success means are agreed in writing before any work starts.
What if the right answer is not technology?
Then that is the answer, and HxDF says so. In the Nonprofit Capacity Blueprint the intervention is whatever actually helps: process redesign, documentation, training, a better form. Sometimes the finding is that AI is premature or unnecessary here, and saying that is part of the job.
Are any Blueprints running now?
No. All three are proposed. The design is written down, nothing has been delivered, and no organization has agreed to one. Nothing on this page is a description of work that has happened.
Where it starts