Strategic intelligence assessment
A Campus Sustainability Intelligence Brief, five-peer benchmark, institutional baseline, credibility review, stakeholder map, priority opportunities, and leadership briefing.
03 / Implement + maintain
Founding Institutional Partnership
A twelve-month strategy partnership for an institution ready to elevate sustainability from distributed activity into a visible institutional agenda.
$20,000three founding positions
The partnership begins with a clear institutional baseline and leadership alignment, converts opportunity into a focused sustainability agenda, advances one flagship priority, and maintains momentum through a twelve-month strategy relationship.
DurationTwelve months
Institutional burdenNamed sponsor · core leadership group · bounded initiative and quarterly cadence
Payment$10,000 at kickoff · $5,000 at strategy alignment · $5,000 after 90-day briefing
Best fit
Built for the institution that needs this level of help now.
- The institution has already confirmed the problem and wants implementation support.
- Sustainability activity is real but fragmented across priorities, people, and decision structures.
- Leadership wants a stronger vision, a credible pathway, and visible implementation momentum.
- The institution can name a sponsor, convene a core leadership group, and participate through quarterly sessions.
What you receive
Concrete files, decisions, and working structures.
Every item below is part of the fixed scope. The engagement is designed to leave useful institutional deliverables, not a generic recommendation deck.
Institutional sustainability agenda
A focused vision connecting institutional mission, priority outcomes, leadership decisions, governance, funding logic, communication, and near-term action.
One flagship priority advanced
A defined initiative moved through its decision pathway with stakeholder strategy, ownership, business-case or funding logic, and a credible implementation sequence.
Ninety-day results package
A documented implementation period followed by a results and next-stage briefing using measurable indicators selected at kickoff.
Months 4–12 support
Four strategy sessions, three public-source and peer-intelligence refreshes, leadership decision support, and priority review tied to the institutional agenda.
Illustrative deliverable view
The partnership connects vision, alignment, and visible momentum.
The institution receives immediate strategic value, a focused sustainability agenda, and implementation support around one flagship priority rather than another plan that sits on a shelf.
Illustrative structure only. It does not present findings about a specific institution.
GROUND TRUTH / INSTITUTIONAL WORKING VIEWEvidence → decision → action
01See clearly
- Baseline + peers
- Ownership map
- Ten priorities
- Leadership roadmap
02Align the institution
- Shared ambition
- Priority agenda
- Decision ownership
- Funding logic
03Build momentum
- Flagship priority
- 90-day launch
- Four sessions
- Three refreshes
How the work moves
A bounded process with a visible finish line.
Understand
Build the assessment, peer benchmark, ownership map, priorities, and 90-day roadmap.
Align
Build the institutional agenda, align leadership around priorities, and select one flagship initiative.
Launch
Advance the flagship priority, assign ownership, and establish the first visible implementation sequence.
Advance
Use quarterly strategy sessions and intelligence refreshes to sustain momentum and strengthen the agenda.
Scope discipline
Clear boundaries protect the result.
Work beyond these limits is not quietly absorbed into the fixed fee. If the evidence reveals additional needs, Ground Truth proposes them separately.
- No complete done-for-you STARS submission or guaranteed rating.
- No unlimited consulting, engineering design, construction management, or program staffing.
- No automatic access to confidential systems; nonpublic information requires written controls.
- No legal, financial, engineering, assurance, certification, savings, grant, or performance guarantee.
Begin with the decision in front of you
Which level of help does your institution actually need?
A short fit conversation determines whether this package is appropriate, or whether a smaller engagement is enough.
Discuss this package with Justin