BI & dashboards Tableau · Looker · Power BI | Charts of what already happened. Interpretation and action stay with humans. | ●●●●● Every insight needs a meeting to become a decision. | ★☆☆☆☆ No audit trail of what was decided, by whom, or why. |
Workflow & no-code automation Zapier · Make · n8n | Linear pipes between tools. Brittle when context or goals shift. | ●●●○○ Saves clicks, but someone owns every flow forever. | ★☆☆☆☆ Logic lives in diagrams nobody reviews until they break. |
Point AI copilots Per-function GPT wrappers | Local productivity bump inside one app. No cross-function memory. | ●●●○○ Productivity rises in silos; coordination tax does not move. | ★☆☆☆☆ Outputs are unattributed, ungoverned, untraceable. |
OKR & strategy software Asana · Lattice · Mooncamp | A second place to copy-paste goals. Disconnected from the work. | ●●●●○ Strategy and execution drift apart by week three. | ★★☆☆☆ Intent is recorded; outcomes are not enforced. |
Management consultants McKinsey · Bain · BCG · Big Four | Recommendations. Decks. Then an invoice and an exit. | ●●●●● You hire a second team to run the first team's advice. | ★★☆☆☆ Governance ends the day the engagement ends. |
Fractional execs & advisory boards Hours-a-week senior judgment | Senior judgment a few hours a week. No operating surface. | ●●●●○ Wisdom without a system that carries it forward. | ★☆☆☆☆ Institutional memory leaves with the advisor. |
Internal build Data team + ML platform | A roadmap, two senior hires, 18 months, uncertain outcome. | ●●●●● Very high during build — and the build is the easy part. | ★★☆☆☆ Depends entirely on people you must retain. |
Teloris coordination layer One governed operating surface | One layer above your stack. Recommendations come with the capacity to execute, under your approval. | ●○○○○ Coordination is the product — not the customer's job. | ★★★★★ Every approval, override and outcome is typed, traceable, reversible. |