For managers & team leads · the companion portal
Turn drift into visible control across your team.
A named status for every project — not green, amber, red, or a number out of ten.
A shared workspace for your team. Score projects against the ten disciplines, roll up drift across the org, and coach with a common language for ownership, dates, decisions and fallbacks. Built around The Control Standard.
Free to start · No credit card · 5 free snapshots · Built around The Control Standard by Andrew Ward.
Acme Studio · Workspace
Your projects
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Room to Sharpen
Q3 client onboarding
Last check-in 2d ago · 3 of 10 disciplines flagged
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Strong
Internal billing rebuild
Last check-in yesterday · trending up
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Drifting
Sales onboarding pilot
Check-in due · no fallback named
Team trend · 8 weeks
↑ 0.6
Free to try
Free resources to try the standard first.
The portal is the main thing. These free resources are friendly entry points to The Control Standard — run a diagnostic, grab the pocket reference, or browse the image library, then decide if you want a workspace.
Free report · 5 min
Drift Report
Score your work against the ten disciplines and get a named status back — not a number out of ten.
Get my free reportFree report · 5 min
Pain Automation Score
Score one repeated pain. Some are worth software. Most aren't yet — and we'll say so.
Get my free reportFree PDF · printable
Pocket Standard
A printable one-pager of the ten disciplines — the whole language of control on a single sheet for your desk.
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Free with an account
Image Library
Every figure from the book, each with a short lesson — browse, open full-size, and download for a deck or a one-to-one.
Browse the libraryWhat control means here
Not a project tool. An operating layer above the work you already do.
You're carrying the chasing because no one else can see what's drifting. That's not a team problem — it's a visibility problem. Give your team a shared read on ownership, dates, decisions and fallbacks, and "we're on it" stops being where the conversation ends.
Vague
- "WE'RE ON IT"
- "SHOULD BE FINE"
- "CHASING IT NOW"
Under control
- PRIYA OWNS IT.
- NEXT STEP DUE THU.
- FALLBACK NAMED.
Four things hold work under control: owners, dated next steps, decisions and escalations, and fallbacks. Everything in this product is built around making those four visible.
How it works
One loop: learn it, score it, apply it, track it, systemise it.
Not another project app — a control layer above the tools your team already uses. Everything in the portal sits on one loop, built to make ownership, dates, decisions and fallbacks visible across the team.
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Learn
A short course for every chapter of the standard.
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Diagnose
Score where your work is actually drifting.
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Apply
Owners, dates, decisions and fallbacks on real work.
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Track
Watch the drift fall, check-in by check-in.
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Improve
Decide which recurring pain is worth systemising.
Diagnostics & Friction Log free · no credit card · 5 free Control Index snapshots
Interactive courses
Learn the standard, don't just read it.
Short, interactive courses — one per chapter of The Control Standard. They are how every new joiner picks up the same standard the same way — retrieval practice and worked examples, not a slide deck — so "owner, dated next step, decision, fallback" is shared language from week one, not something you have to keep re-teaching.
- Retrieve, don't re-read — questions, decisions, and worked examples, not passive video.
- Bridges to the work — each course ends with the matching chapter assessment and a cue back into the portal.
- Stand-alone, by design — no need to have read the book first.
Orientation + Chapter 1 free, forever · ~10–20 min per sub-module
Two ways to start
Score your team's control, or set up a workspace.
Five-minute Drift Report for the work you're worried about, or a shared workspace your team can join.
A shared vocabulary
Give your team a shared language with The Control Standard.
The book your team can read in chapters and certify against — so "owner, dated next step, decision, fallback" stops being your phrase and starts being theirs.
Beyond the portal · separate service
Pain genuinely software-shaped? Scorchsoft can build it.
If a diagnostic shows your repeated pain is software-shaped, Scorchsoft — the team behind the standard — builds custom portals, workflows, dashboards and integrations around it. Different engagement, different commercials, not part of the portal subscription.