The practice.
The practice finds the product inside a federal delivery record and proves whether it is worth building.
Start with the record.
The free HARBOR Signal is the first step: 30 questions across the Leadership, Operations, and Market dimensions, about eight minutes, no account. It returns a readiness score and the stage where the practice should start.
HARBOR SignalOne method, six stages.
The HARBOR framework turns the delivery record into a product decision: Pre-HARBOR, then Harvest, Architect, Risk-Proof, Build, Operate and Replicate. It is one page with seven anchors, and the method is published.
The HARBOR frameworkSix ways in.
Every engagement is fixed scope, has a named deliverable and an end date. The advisory retainer is the sixth rung.
- Harvest Sprint
- Architect Workshop
- Build Pilot
- Federal Activation Audit
- Operate + Replicate
- Advisory retainer
Four doors.
The same method, read for the seat you sit in.
- Commercial teams
For firms selling the method outside the federal market.
- NATO and Five Eyes
For allied buyers who need the same product discipline.
- Partners and primes
For primes, MSPs and teaming partners building a channel.
- Government buyers
For agencies and program offices that buy the outcome.
Proof, then the books.
The worked example is the scorecard applied to a composite firm; the books carry the method at length.