Client discovery
Gather information about your clients and their objectives. (Consultants workflow)
- Sessions
- 7
- Steps
- 46
- Last edited
- Dec 3, 2025
- Created by
- Nova
About this process
Client discovery is the first stage of a management consulting engagement. During client discovery, the consultant dives below the client organization's surface to gather information about the organization, the team, their objectives and probe deep into whatever problems the organization is facing. Use this workflow to add additional sessions and build the right workflow for your client.
The process in detail
7 sessions · 46 stepsDiscovery questions
20 stepsUnderstand your customer and their business
- 1
Prepare the session by adding additional information in the Session Goals / Instructions
- 2
Tell us more about your team and organization.
- 3
What does the company do?
- 4
What is the company name, address, phone number, email addresses?
- 5
What is the company’s mission statement and vision?
- 6
What’s the story behind how the company was founded?
- 7
What is your competitive advantage? And how does the customer perceive it?
- 8
Why does the user need your solution? What are they trying to avoid?
- 9
Who are your major competitors?
- 10
Can you name 5 major influencers in the market? (optional)
- 11
Define your market size? What’s your footprint in the marketplace?
- 12
What’s your current goal?
- 13
How do you think we can help you?
- 14
Points of contact
- 15
Technical Setup
- 16
Business activities updates (optional)
- 17
Meetings & communication
- 18
Marketing collateral (optional)
- 19
Does your business have a brand guideline? (optional)
- 20
Additional team notes
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2. Tell us more about your team and organization.
3. What does the company do?
4. What is the company name, address, phone number, email addresses?
5. What is the company’s mission statement and vision?
6. What’s the story behind how the company was founded?
7. What is your competitive advantage? And how does the customer perceive it?
8. Why does the user need your solution? What are they trying to avoid?
9. Who are your major competitors?
10. Can you name 5 major influencers in the market? (optional)
11. Define your market size? What’s your footprint in the marketplace?
12. What’s your current goal?
Increase sales, maintain current relationships and sale new products to current customers, etc What barriers do you have to reach your current goal? What extra resources do you need?
13. How do you think we can help you?
How do you think we help? What would be the ideal situation? What's your budget for this project?
14. Points of contact
Who is on the management/executive team? (is the website up to date on this?) Who is responsible for overseeing marketing in the organization? Who should we contact when we have questions? What is the best way to get in touch with your team? Who will be reviewing/approving deliverables?
15. Technical Setup
How would you like to communicate with us? (Mainly email, slack, phone, etc) If applicable, how would you like to share files between team members?
16. Business activities updates (optional)
Where would you be sharing business updates and stories? Where would you share conferences, trade shows, and events calendars?
17. Meetings & communication
How often do you want to have a meeting with us? Who will be joining our meetings? When should we schedule those meetings?
18. Marketing collateral (optional)
Do you have marketing collateral, sales sheets or other presentation materials developed? Add the link below.
19. Does your business have a brand guideline? (optional)
Add the link below.
20. Additional team notes
How do you perceive the client? What are the barriers do you see? What are the next step?
Kick-off Call
Discuss with your team your strategy and your findings. This is a good time to have a work session and develop a proposal.
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- Milestones
- Definition of success
- Objective
- Communication & Team
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- Description
- [Add Definition of success]
- What?
- What?
- What?
- Result Result
- Result Result
- Deliverable 1 Deliverable 2
- Result Result
- Deliverable 1 Deliverable 2
- Result Result
- Deliverable 1 Deliverable 2
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- Name| Role/ Dept
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Brand Guidelines
16 stepsWhat do you need to work with your customer? Create a single source of truth with all the information about your customer's brand
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About the organization: Introduction
- 2
About the organization: What service / products do you offer?
- 3
About the organization: Value proposition
- 4
About the organization: What's your purpose?
- 5
About the organization: What is the company’s vision statement?
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About the organization: What's is the company's mission statement?
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About the organization: Who makes this possible?
- 8
Brand: Logo
- 9
Brand: What's your tagline?
- 10
Brand: How should stakeholders use your logo and when? (optional)
- 11
Brand: What color palette and font would you recommend using?
- 12
Brand: Create a board with illustrations, color recommendations, etc (optional)
- 13
Communication: What channels do you use to communicate and connect with your audience?
- 14
Communication: What's your tone of voice?
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Communication: Keywords that are relevant in your industry
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Contact Information: Who is responsible for overseeing marketing / branding in the organization?
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1. About the organization: Introduction
What does the company do? Keep it short.
2. About the organization: What service / products do you offer?
Describe your service and products and include a positioning statement - how are you different from your competitors?
3. About the organization: Value proposition
What is your competitive advantage? And how does the customer perceive it?
4. About the organization: What's your purpose?
Why do you exist?
5. About the organization: What is the company’s vision statement?
Tip: A vision statement is a declaration of an organization’s overarching objective. What are your hopes and dreams? If everything goes the way you want, what is the problem you would be solving for the greater good? The vision statement dictates the mission and is meant to be inspiring, big and exciting! The vision will provide the company with a direction.
6. About the organization: What's is the company's mission statement?
Tip: A mission statement is a formal summary of the values of an organization. What problems does it solve? For who? How? It describes how you act and it proclaims for who you are doing whatever you do, what you provide and how you do it every day. The mission drives the company.
7. About the organization: Who makes this possible?
Who is on the management / executive team? Who is on the advisory board? Do you have any partners?
8. Brand: Logo
Include a link to all your logo documentation. Include the illustration file and the logo for white and black backgrounds, if applicable.
9. Brand: What's your tagline?
10. Brand: How should stakeholders use your logo and when? (optional)
Provide Guidelines or a link to those guidelines.
11. Brand: What color palette and font would you recommend using?
What styles do you use for the following areas: What font style and size do you use for titles? How do you highlight text? Do you use bold? Do you use a different color? What background colors do you use? What type of illustrations do you recommend? Can you provide a package? Add as much information as you think would be necessary and will reduce the number of mistakes and design reviews.
12. Brand: Create a board with illustrations, color recommendations, etc (optional)
Use this board to discuss and evaluate your color, design, illustration, and product usability before defining it in the next steps.
13. Communication: What channels do you use to communicate and connect with your audience?
Be specific. Email campaigns, Facebook, Instagram, etc
14. Communication: What's your tone of voice?
- Casual
- Confident
- Neutral
- Joyful
- Optimistic
- Friendly
- Urgent
- Analytical
15. Communication: Keywords that are relevant in your industry
Create a list of words that are vital for your communication strategy. For example, at Nova, we tend to use the following words: Creative, visionary, alternatives, innovative, open, communicative, visual, original, testing, revolutionary, friendly, reveling, impactful, successful, development, launching, team, disrupting, explorers, visualize, feel, possible, opportunity, challenges, investigate, accelerate, different, playful, fun, discussion, open conversation, technology-oriented, future, flexible, experiential, competitive edge, to uncover, dynamic, in-depth discussion, engaging, connecting, synchronicity, new thinking, powerful, customer’s desires, insights, full potential.
16. Contact Information: Who is responsible for overseeing marketing / branding in the organization?
- Brand Characteristics
- Research & Evaluation
- Competitors
- Logo
- How do you represent who you are? Where and when should you use the logo? Provide Guidelines.
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- Colors
- Brand Identity
- Define your main colours, background colours, etc
- Personality, Self-image, etc
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- Inspiration
- Typography
- Tone of voice
- Font, sizes, etc
- Energetic, personal, etc
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Proposal & Contract
3 steps- 1
📋 Please review the attached proposal.
- 2
Please indicate if any changes or updates are needed. Add notes inside the document.
- 3
Contract. ✍
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1. 📋 Please review the attached proposal.
2. Please indicate if any changes or updates are needed. Add notes inside the document.
- Approve
- Request changes
- Decline
3. Contract. ✍
Once the proposal has been approved, our team will attach a contract here, reflecting the suggested changes. 📅 This usually takes [a few days]. We’ll let you know when it’s ready, and it will be visible here.
You can then download the document and upload the updated and signed version when you’re ready.✍✍
Team Directory
2 steps- 1
🧔♀👨🦰👵🙍♂ This is our team directory.
- 2
Updates and decisions
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1. 🧔♀👨🦰👵🙍♂ This is our team directory.
We want to make sure you have this handy so that whenever you need to schedule a call with us or contact someone specific from our team, you can find their available times directly on their calendar—without the hassle of sending an email. 🔥 We believe in getting things done—without unnecessary steps that take up your time.
Just click on the person’s name, and the link to their calendar will be available.
- Schedule a meeting with [ NAME]
- 🪄🎯 Find our which workshops I am leading soon and join us.
2. Updates and decisions
[ Add information ]
- Option 1
- Option 2
Meeting Notes
3 steps- 1
🎯✔ ✔ To-do
- 2
📌 Key decisions, 🕺 Changes or/and ⏲🐢Delays.
- 3
Agree or disagree
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1. 🎯✔ ✔ To-do
🎯 [Objective of the meeting]
Agenda
👉 Topic
👉 Topic
2. 📌 Key decisions, 🕺 Changes or/and ⏲🐢Delays.
Add any new decisions made during the meeting, any changes to the plan that should be recorded, or any delays that require adjustments and good coordination among all affected. 📋
3. Agree or disagree
Please acknowledge that you have been informed, understand the decisions that have been made, and agree to the points that have been reached. If anything is still pending, it’s because it has been agreed to be resolved outside this meeting for the sake of efficiency.
- 👍Yes, I agree
- 🔴 I disagree.
To-do with Notes
2 steps- 1
🎯✔ ✔ To-do List
- 2
📋📌 Key decisions, 🕺 Changes or/and ⏲🐢Delays.
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1. 🎯✔ ✔ To-do List
2. 📋📌 Key decisions, 🕺 Changes or/and ⏲🐢Delays.
Add any new decisions made during the meeting, any changes to the plan that should be recorded, or any delays that require adjustments and good coordination among all affected. 📋 ⏲🐢🕺