Case Study: Structural Alignment

The ₹18 Lakh Leak No One Could See

I once worked with a football-focused marketing agency that looked healthy from the outside but was quietly bleeding from the inside. They had clients. They had growth. What they didn’t have was alignment.

The Cost of Misalignment

Visualizing how structural drift converts revenue into silent waste.

Agency Ops Delivered Value The Leak (₹18L) MISALIGNMENT REAL WORK
INPUT: RESOURCES & TIME OUTPUT: PROFIT VS WASTE

The Diagnosis

When I stepped in, I didn’t audit campaigns. I audited how decisions were flowing across the organisation. Sales chasing one reality, delivery living in another, leadership assuming a third.

"Structural drift isn't fraud or laziness. It's invisible friction."

Once we mapped revenue, workload, ownership, pricing logic, and incentives across the structure, the number became unavoidable. ₹18 lakh in annual value was leaking purely through misalignment.

01

Understanding the Real Market

They thought they were a marketing agency. In truth, they were solving operational chaos for football clubs that didn’t even know how to articulate what they needed.

This reframing alone killed half the friction between sales promises and delivery reality. Suddenly, they weren't selling posts; they were selling operational solutions.

02

Creating Organisational Alignment

We rebuilt the spine of the organisation. No vague goals. We implemented:

  • KPIs that matched how value was actually created.
  • OKRs that linked daily behaviour to business outcomes.
  • Ownership chains so every metric had a human being accountable for it.

Now when something slipped, the system didn’t argue. It pointed.

03

Removing the Silent Waste

Alignment exposed everything. Duplicate work. Underpriced services. Departments optimising locally while damaging the whole.

The waste wasn’t hidden anymore because the organisation finally spoke one language.

Projected Recovery

Impact of alignment on Operating Expenses (OpEx) over 3 months

Start Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 100% OpEx -40% Costs

Where They Are Now

₹18L
Identified Leak
Annual value recovered
40%
Expense Cut
Projected in 3 months
0
Layoffs
Pure structural fix

They are on course to save around 40% of their overall expenses within the next three months, not by cutting people, but by cutting misalignment.

Structure doesn't make people work harder.
It makes them stop working against each other.

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