Phase Three · The Pathway

Why your playbook broke.

The next decade rewards leaders who upgrade themselves, not just their tools.

Most leaders have a felt sense of two speeds.

Analogue speed: slow, physical, one step at a time. Letters in the post. Newspapers in the morning. A new product every five years. There was always time to adapt.

And digital speed, the soundtrack of the last forty years. Analogue to digital. Dumb phones to smartphones. Manual cars to self-driving. Fast, but rideable. We have language for it. We have lived experience of it.

A third speed is already starting. It arrives in the weekly drop of new AI capabilities, and there is no language yet for what it actually is: the intelligence explosion. Technology improving itself, recursively, without us in the loop. AI becoming singularly best at mathematics, medicine, strategy, all at once. The curve stops being a curve. It becomes a jump.

You do not course-correct mid-jump. The coordinates set before the jump determine where a business arrives.

The two to three year window ahead is the pre-jump window, the only time left to set the heading. The Phase Three argument is what to set it to, and the pathway below is how Really Conscious Group works with leaders to set it well.

Really Conscious Group is the team that delivers. Our founder, Thomas Green, is the voice and the practice, the evangelist for human upgrade. One belief, two roles, and on this pathway you are working with both.

01 Self-Identify

Where are you right now?

Awareness
"I want to understand what AI really means for me and my business."
Start: The Phase Three Audit
Decision
"I want to think with you for an hour about one decision."
Start: The Decision Hour
Orient
"I want my leadership team or board oriented on AI, fast and without the hype."
Start: The Briefing
Proof
"I want to see how you work before I commit to more."
Start: The Capability Taster
Plan
"I need a clear plan I can act on Monday morning."
Start: The Monday Plan
Opportunity
"I want to find my single biggest AI opportunity, with my team in the room."
Start: The 1 Day Opportunity Sprint
Prototype
"I need a working prototype that solves a specific problem."
Start: The 4 Week Diagnostic Sprint
Event
"I'm running an event, training program, or leadership offsite."
Start: Speaking / Training
Leader
"I personally need to upgrade my thinking, my state, my decisions."
Start: The 90-Day Upgrade
Cohort
"I want a year in a cohort of founders transforming together."
Start: The Phase Three Program
02 The Pathway

Eleven rungs, one heading. Start where you are.

01
Entry · Owned Media

The Manifesto

"What is actually changing, and why your existing playbook will not carry you through it."

Outcome
A shared frame for the next decade. The argument for why human upgrade matters more than tooling.
Format
Long-form essay, podcast appearances, keynote speeches. Owned media.
Next: The Phase Three Audit
Free
Read, share, sit with it
02
Diagnostic · Free

The Phase Three Audit

"I want to understand what AI really means for me and my business."

Conscious OS layer: the audit covers both your business position and your personal readiness, an IQ, EQ and SQ baseline.
Outcome
A personal readiness score and a customised next-step recommendation, plus the leader's eye-opener: where your blind spots are.
Format
Self-serve diagnostic, around 10 minutes. Email follow-up with results and recommended rung.
Next: a paid rung calibrated to your readiness
Free
10 minutes · self-serve
03
Paid Consult

The Decision Hour

"I want to think with you for an hour about one decision."

Conscious OS layer: the hour is as much about the quality of the question as the quality of the answer. We work on the decision, not just the data.
Outcome
A single decision made well, with the reasoning, the trade-offs, and the next concrete step clear in your head when you hang up.
Format
60 minutes, one-to-one with Thomas. Pre-call brief from you. Written summary after.
Next: depends on the decision
$500
fixed · AUD ex GST · paid upfront
04
Orientation · Team or Board

The Briefing

"I want my leadership team or board oriented on AI, fast and without the hype."

Conscious OS layer: the room leaves aligned, not just informed. We work on how your leaders think about the shift, not only what they should do about it.
Outcome
Your leadership team or board leaves with a shared, clear-eyed view of what AI means for your business, where you are exposed, and what to weigh first. The arguments stop and the real questions surface.
Format
90 minutes, in-person or virtual. Leadership-team tier up to 10 people. Board tier tailored for directors. Briefing note follows.
Next: The Capability Taster, The Monday Plan, or The 1 Day Opportunity Sprint
$1,500 / $3,000
leadership team / board · AUD ex GST · paid upfront
05
Paid Proof

The Capability Taster

"I want to see how you work before I commit to more."

Conscious OS layer: this is a hands-on exercise done with you, not to you. You see how we think, not just what we make.
Outcome
A guided working exercise that leaves you with usable prompts, and a tangible artefact where scope allows, plus first-hand evidence of how we work before any bigger commitment.
Format
Two 60-minute working sessions over 10 days. Done together, scope agreed upfront, fixed price.
Next: The Monday Plan or The 1 Day Opportunity Sprint
$2,500
fixed · AUD ex GST · paid upfront
06
Strategy Day

The Monday Plan

"I need a clear plan I can act on Monday morning."

Conscious OS layer: the plan is yours to execute, built from your reality, not a template.
Outcome
A written, prioritised plan you act on the next working day. Not a deck, not a strategy document. A plan with first moves named, sequenced, and owned.
Format
A full day with Thomas, in-person or virtual. Pre-day brief, working day, written plan delivered within 72 hours.
Next: The 1 Day Opportunity Sprint or The 4 Week Diagnostic Sprint
$3,500
fixed · AUD ex GST · paid upfront
07
Team Day · Opportunity

The 1 Day Opportunity Sprint

"I want to find my single biggest AI opportunity, with my team in the room."

Conscious OS layer: a room thinks better than a person. We facilitate the team to see the opportunity together, and to own it.
Outcome
Your team leaves with one prioritised, validated opportunity worth real money, and a clear sense of what capturing it would take. Run it as "solve your $10M problem" or "find your 10X opportunity", depending on where your team's energy sits.
Format
A facilitated full day with your team, in-person or virtual. Pre-day brief, working day, prioritised opportunity and first-move map within 72 hours.
Next: The 4 Week Diagnostic Sprint or The Operating System
$7,500
fixed · AUD ex GST · paid upfront
08
Scoped Build · 4 Weeks

The 4 Week Diagnostic Sprint

"I need a working prototype that solves a specific problem, without a long commitment."

Conscious OS layer: includes a leader-state check at week 1 and week 4, how clearly your team thinks under change.
Outcome
A working AI prototype that solves a specific named problem, plus a workflow map and the path to roll it across the business. The pod model, run for a single focused month.
Format
4 weeks, pod-delivered. Discovery, build, demo. One month, no three to six month lock-in. Continue into an Operating System pod only if it earns its place.
Next: The Operating System (AI Pod)
$25,000
fixed · AUD ex GST · one month · no lock-in
09
Stage · Room · Team

Speaking / Training / Facilitation

"I'm running an event, training program, or leadership offsite."

Conscious OS layer: every session integrates the Phase Three argument. Your team leaves with a frame, not a list of tools.
Outcome
Your audience or team leaves with a shared frame, a sense of urgency, and a starting point. The Manifesto, made live.
Format
Keynote (45 to 90 min), workshop (half or full day), multi-day leadership facilitation, MC and host. In-person or virtual.
Audience leads to The Phase Three Audit. Buyer leads to The Monday Plan or The 90-Day Upgrade.
from $5,000
launch tier · scales with portfolio
10
Leader Transformation

The 90-Day Upgrade

"I personally need to upgrade my thinking, my state, my decisions."

This rung is the upgrade. The conscious OS work is not an add-on, it is the centre of the work. Intellect to Intellect-Plus.
Outcome
You exit the 90 days as a different leader: AI-native in how you think, regulated in how you respond under pressure, clearer in the decisions you make and the ones you stop making.
Format
90 days, one-to-one with Thomas. Weekly working sessions. Daily practice. Mid-program leader-state assessment.
Next: The Phase Three Program or The Operating System
$27,000
fixed · AUD ex GST · staged
11
12-Month Cohort · The Terminus

The Phase Three Program

"I want to spend a year in a cohort of founders transforming together."

Conscious OS layer: this is the full architecture. Personal OS, business transformation, peer accountability, 12 months. Designed for founders setting their coordinates before the jump.
Outcome
Three layers: your business materially positioned for Phase Three; your personal operating system upgraded for the jump; eleven founder peers you actually trust.
Format
12 founders. Quarterly one to two day in-person intensives. Monthly group calls. One-to-ones with Thomas. Faculty input. Six-month operating-system guarantee.
Continues: alumni community and The Operating System inside each business
$250K–$280K
AUD ex GST · staged over 12 months · founding cohort $250K
Where the practice meets the operation. The work above runs through Thomas Green, our founder. The two engagements below are delivered by the Really Conscious Group team, activated when your business needs ongoing capability, not a moment of insight.
12
Ongoing Capability · RCG Delivery

The Operating System

"I need ongoing AI capability inside my business, not another project."

Conscious leadership embedded: a monthly leadership coaching session built into the pod cadence. The organisation evolves consciously.
Outcome
A fractional AI department running inside your business: strategy, training, engineering, project management. Without the six-month recruitment cycle or the bad-hire risk.
Format
One pod is a strategist, pod leader, engineer or engineers, and customer success. Quarterly cadence. RCG-delivered, Thomas advises.
Next: Embedded Transformation (multi-pod)
$24K–$66K
per pod · per quarter · 2-quarter minimum · billed quarterly
13
Full Transformation · RCG Delivery

Embedded Transformation

"We're transforming the whole business, AI integrated into how we operate."

Conscious leadership embedded: a quarterly executive offsite. Leadership-team consciousness work runs alongside the operational transformation.
Outcome
Multiple pods across functions. AI integrated into how the business operates, leads, and grows. A genuine competitive position before the pre-jump window closes.
Format
Two to three pods minimum. 12-month engagement. Embedded leadership and quarterly executive offsites with Thomas.
The real transformation tier. Built for the leaders who move first.
$30K–$60K+
per month · 2 to 3 pods · 12-month engagement
03 How we work

Five principles that hold the boundary so the work can stay alive.

i.

Fixed pricing

Every offer is priced. Every price is published. Nothing is negotiated in the room. The number is the number.

ii.

Billed in advance

Sprints and consults: paid upfront. Larger engagements: staged, each stage paid before delivery, never after. Retainers: monthly or quarterly in advance.

iii.

Outcomes, not hours

You do not buy time. You buy a result. Hourly billing commoditises the work and rewards inefficiency.

iv.

One scope, no creep

If the brief expands mid-engagement, the price is re-scoped and agreed before more work begins. Always.

v.

Conscious by default

The inner-work layer runs through every rung. Not an add-on, not a workshop. It is why the work holds when the pressure rises.

Ready to find your rung?

A 30-minute conversation. We will listen, ask, and tell you which rung is the right place to start. If we are not the right fit, we will say so.

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Evangelist for human upgrade.