Delivery leadership for CTOs, CPOs & delivery execs

You’re about to commit to a
delivery date you don’t trust.

Your teams are busy. Velocity looks fine. And you’re still shipping late, with no clean answer for the board. TAD finds why your dates keep slipping, in your own data, then either hands you the fix or owns the repair with you. Not coaching. Not a framework. Diagnosis, then repair.

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+52%
Quality delivery gain in a single quarter
700+
Person regulated-FS domain stabilized
50+
Teams stood up and stabilized
2
Engagements open for Q4 2026
Track record

Built on real enterprise delivery, not theory.

TAD’s diagnostic is the productized version of what Darius Yates did by hand inside complex, regulated engineering organizations, including a 700+ person financial-services domain restored from reactive to proactive.

Client details anonymized. PMP · regulated financial services · fintech · HR technology · enterprise delivery.

Two ways in

The diagnostic is the scan. Advisory is the surgeon.

Direct engagement

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A 30-day embedded diagnostic, fractional delivery leadership, or async advisory, from the operator who built the diagnostic engine. Diagnosis first, then the repair, inside your org.

From $3,500/mo · 2 engagements open for Q4 2026

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Self-serve diagnostics

Run the diagnostic yourself

Start free with the Delivery Health Check and see whether the date you’re about to commit to is one you can trust. Go deeper with the paid Diagnostic when you need the root cause proven in your own data.

Free → $997 · instant start, no sales call

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Different problem

Your AI governance framework is written. Can you evidence it operating?

Policy is written by risk. Controls are implemented by engineering. The attestation is signed by you. An independent readiness assessment of whether your AI controls exist inside the delivery process, or only inside the policy document.

AI Governance Readiness →4-6 weeks · fixed scope
Sound familiar?

You know delivery is off. You just can’t see why.

A board update is coming. Your CEO or an investor wants a date. And the last two you gave were wrong. Your teams are busy, Jira has data, and none of it tells you what’s actually going to slip.

You gave leadership a delivery date. You have already missed it twice.

Teams are busy, velocity looks fine, and features still ship late.

Unplanned work derails every sprint and leadership is losing trust.

Your Jira data exists but doesn’t tell you what’s structurally wrong.

You’ve tried coaching, process changes, and new tools. Same problems, new quarter.

The problem is not effort. The problem is visibility. Dashboards show what happened. They don’t show why it’s happening, or what’s about to.

The real problem

Dashboards measure output. They don’t diagnose systems.

What dashboards show
That cycle time went up
Velocity numbers by sprint
How many tickets are open
Charts to review quarterly
What TAD diagnoses
Whether the date you just committed to is actually achievable
Whether the data behind your metrics is trustworthy
Cross-team bottlenecks compounding across your org
Root causes spanning intake, WIP, and team structure at once

Dashboards are rearview mirrors. TAD is the diagnosis that tells you what breaks next.

Built by an operator

Darius Yates built TAD inside the delivery systems it now diagnoses.

Darius has spent years embedded inside engineering organizations, not advising from the outside, but working inside delivery systems, diagnosing why work ships late, why metrics mislead, and why the same structural failures keep appearing across teams, departments, and companies, including inside regulated financial services.

The TAD diagnostic engine is his patterns, productized. Advisory is those patterns, applied by hand.

Darius takes on a small number of direct engagements alongside the product. Currently: 2 engagements open for Q4 2026.

About Darius Yates & TAD →

Start free. Prove it in your data. Then fix it.

A free directional read, a paid diagnosis proven in your own data, or the operator himself inside your org.

Delivery Health Check
Free

See whether your date is one you can trust

A fast, email-gated check that returns a Delivery Confidence Score and the single biggest reason your dates slip.

Delivery Confidence Score in under 10 minutes
1 team, directional read
Names the #1 risk to your next date
Immediate on-screen results
Email-gated. No credit card, no sales call
Start the Health Check
Then: the repair

Most serious buyers start with the 30-Day Embedded Diagnostic($7,500) → Fractional Delivery Leader(from $9,500/mo). Async lane: Delivery Advisor($3,500/mo). Every rung credits toward month one of Fractional.

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Stop guessing at the date.
Know what breaks next.

Your dashboards will not tell you why the date is going to slip. TAD will. Start with the free Delivery Health Check. If the signal confirms what you suspect, go deeper.

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No account required · Instant results · Data never sold