What is a 5-day value scan?
A value scan is a short, fixed-fee engagement that finds the growth opportunities already inside a business and sizes each one in dollars. A 5-day value scan compresses that into a single week: five ideas, each priced, stress-tested, and traceable to its assumptions. Pilot to Payoff's version is the Meridian Value Report — five days, $15,000 flat.
What a value scan tells you
Three things, in dollars:
Where new revenue could come from — the segments, offers, and channels implied by what you already do, that nobody inside has named yet. What each opportunity is worth — a figure with visible assumptions, shown as a range your team can challenge, not a flattering average. And what your team can actually run — every idea scoped to a four-to-six-quarter execution window, because an opportunity you can't staff isn't an opportunity.
A 5-day value scan vs. a big-firm strategy engagement
The traditional route to these answers is a strategy engagement: a team embedded for months, an open-ended scope, and a fee that published 2026 guides put in the mid six figures and up at the largest firms. That model exists for questions that need it.
A value scan is built for a different question — what's the value, where is it, what's it worth — and answers it in days:
Months
Five days
The honest trade: a value scan won't restructure your org or run a six-month transformation. It tells you, fast and in dollars, whether there's something worth transforming for.
A value scan vs. a diagnostic
Rapid diagnostics look backward and inward: cost, compliance, working capital, the finance function. Useful — and a different tool. A value scan looks forward and outward: new revenue, priced. If your question is "where are we leaking?", get a diagnostic. If your question is "what could this business become?", that's a value scan.
When a value scan is the wrong tool
If you want a readiness assessment, a maturity score, or a general strategy review, this isn't that — and we'll tell you so on the first call. If you're mid-crisis and the question is survival rather than growth, fix that first. A value scan pays when the business is stable enough to build.