The Bidirectional Value Doctrine™
We Do. We Undo. We Invoice.
Every Futtbucker engagement is fully reversible. Reversal is a separate engagement.
Other firms transform your organization and leave. Futtbucker transforms your organization, returns eleven to fourteen months later, and transforms it back. For every service line we offer, we offer its opposite, delivered by the same practitioners, using the same deck, at a rate we have not explained. This is not a loophole. It is a doctrine. Board-approved, trademark-pending, and fully invoiceable in both directions.
“Forward is a direction. Reverse is a direction. Up and to the right is a policy. I do not confuse the three, and neither should your CFO.”
Dr. Xavier Ugmund Thrale-Lascaux IVChief Reversal Officer · Read the vita →68%
Of clients engage the reverse service within 14 months
31%
Engage it before the forward engagement concludes
2
Invoices per outcome, minimum
N/A
Reverse-rate premium, disclosed
Service Pairs
Forward on the left. Reverse on the right. Invoice in the middle.
Each Futtbucker service line is paired with its equal and opposite service line. Clients may enter at either end. Most enter at both.
Forward
Bucketization
Your buckets have been consolidated into one bucket. There is only The Bucket. You are inside it.
Reverse
Debucketization
Should stakeholders require multiple buckets, we offer granular rebucketization at standard bucket rates. Bucket count is scoped separately. Bucket names are scoped separately from bucket count.
Forward
Synergization
Stakeholders are aligned. Verticals are horizontal. Everyone is one Futtbucker family now.
Reverse
Desynergization
Marketed as Strategic Autonomy Restoration™. Some organizations discover that synergy was the problem. We discover that too, at a later date, for a fee.
Forward
Horizontalization
Your verticals are laid flat. Every silo is now a floor. Nobody can find the stairs.
Reverse
Reverticalization
Verticals are stood back up with enhanced posture. Silos are reinstated, now with executive sponsorship and a naming convention.
Forward
Alignment
Everyone faces the same direction. The direction is confidential.
Reverse (Two Tiers)
Realignment / Non-Alignment
Three billable states. Non-Alignment is the premium tier: every stakeholder faces a different direction, each one strategically justified in its own deck.
Forward
Streamlining
We remove friction. Approvals, handoffs, and the person who asked why are all eliminated.
Reverse
Restreamlining
We reintroduce curated friction. Your teams have grown complacent. A four-signature approval chain restores their sense of purpose, and ours.
Forward
Digital Transformation
Everything is now in the cloud, including several things that were doing fine in the filing cabinet.
Reverse
Analog Restoration
A return to paper, with an enterprise governance layer. The filing cabinet is reinstated. It now has a SKU, a service-level agreement, and a dashboard.
Forward
Directional Correction
Your Q3 numbers are now directionally correct. They point somewhere. We have confirmed this.
Reverse
Directional Recorrection
If the direction changes, so do we. Numbers are re-pointed toward the new direction at the moment the board notices the old one.
Forward
Offshoring
The work goes somewhere else. Somewhere with a favorable time zone and an unfavorable phone connection.
Reverse (Three Tiers)
Reshoring / Nearshoring / Whereshoring
Whereshoring™ is location-agnostic resourcing. The work is somewhere. We are confident of this. A locator engagement is available.
Forward
Rightsizing
Your organization is now the right size. We determined the right size. We did not write it down.
Reverse
Re-Rightsizing
Right is a moving target. So are we. Annual re-rightsizing is recommended, then required, then invoiced.
Roundtrip Pricing
The Full Cycle Engagement™
We implement and reverse in a single quarter, so your board sees activity on both ends. Two kickoffs. Two closing ceremonies. Two invoices, each referencing the other as a dependency. Ask your Engagement Partner about bundling. There is no bundle discount. There is a bundle.
Reverse engagements are priced slightly above their forward equivalents. This is not explained.
The Synergy Lifecycle, Revised
Four stages. Two of them are invoices.
- Initial Confusion. The engagement begins. Nobody is sure why.
- Recurring Invoice. Clarity is achieved by Finance, if no one else.
- Reversal Assessment. We return to evaluate what we did. Findings: we did it.
- Recurring Invoice (Reverse). The lifecycle is complete. The lifecycle restarts.
The Reversibility Guarantee
Every deliverable is fully reversible. Reversal is a deliverable.
Futtbucker guarantees that any change we make can be unmade by Futtbucker. This guarantee does not extend to changes made by anyone else, changes made by us on a different engagement, or the original state, which was never documented. Documentation is available as a service. Documentation of the documentation is available as a separate service.
★★★★★
“They bucketized us, then debucketized us. Both invoices were directionally correct.”
Reggie Talmadge
SVP Client Retention, Whitfield & Corr
Your organization has been synergized.
Reversal services may not restore original state. Original state was never documented. Documentation available as a service. The Bidirectional Value Doctrine™ is a registered philosophy of Futtbucker Corporation, Inc. and may not be reversed without a separate engagement.