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The Windy Hill Toolkit

Practitioner-grade tools. Free, because diagnosis should be.

Nine working tools for transformation and operational excellence leaders — built by a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, not a marketing department. Map your process, find your constraint, score your readiness, and put a dollar figure on the waste. No login. No trial clock.

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The Builders — tools that make deliverables

Not quizzes. These produce the artifacts you'd otherwise spend an afternoon fighting a diagramming tool for — branded, export-ready, and built on proper mapping conventions.

Swimlane Studio

Type the procedure, dictate it with your microphone, or upload the SOP you already have. Get a professional cross-functional swimlane map with clean 90° connectors and standardized decision routing — Yes right, No down, every diamond, every time.

PDF ExportVisio .vsdxSVGVoice Input~5 min
Open Swimlane Studio →
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SIPOC Explorer

Build a SIPOC through guided prompts — then click any supplier, input, step, output, or customer and watch everything it connects to light up. The Process column renders as a live flowchart. Trace a chain, export that exact story.

Click-to-TracePDF ExportSVG · CSV~8 min
Open SIPOC Explorer →

Diagnostics & Calculators — know before you commit

Each one takes minutes, ends in a score or a dollar figure, and tells you what to do next. Use them before you fund a project, buy an automation platform, or promise leadership a timeline.

Automation Readiness Score

AI and automation scale whatever they're pointed at — including the chaos. Twelve questions across standardization, exceptions, controls, and data quality tell you if this process is ready for touchless workflow.

Output: Score /48 + verdict — Ready · Stabilize First · Not Yet
Score a process →

Cost of Poor Quality Calculator

Rework and escapes never appear as a P&L line — they hide inside payroll. Six inputs produce your annualized COPQ and where you sit against world-class benchmarks. Most leaders are off by 5–10x.

Output: Annual $ figure + internal/external split + benchmark
Calculate the number →

Readiness Blueprint

The full 30-point organizational readiness assessment — the six gap areas that stall first-time transformation functions, from mandate to measurement infrastructure.

Output: 30-point gap profile across six readiness dimensions
Run the assessment →

First Win Selector

Your first project sets the function's reputation. Score up to five candidates on impact, effort, data, sponsorship, and visibility — get a ranked answer and the risk to manage on the winner.

Output: Ranked list /100 + recommended first win
Rank your projects →

Mandate Clarity Diagnostic

The most common gap in new transformation roles isn't methodology — it's mandate. Twelve honest answers on sponsorship, success definition, resourcing, and authority show where you actually stand.

Output: Clarity score /48 + risk flags + next three conversations
Score your mandate →

Flow & Bottleneck Calculator

Everyone knows where the work piles up — now prove it. Little's Law on your steps, capacity, and WIP: true lead time, per-step utilization, and the constraint that sets your ceiling.

Output: Lead time + named constraint + exploitation plan
Find the constraint →

ROI Calculator

Estimate the financial return of a focused improvement engagement before you fund it — built on the same math we use to scope real projects.

Output: Projected ROI on engagement scenarios
Estimate the return →

The tools tell you where. We help with how.

If a score came back lower than expected — or the map surfaced a mess nobody owns — that's exactly the conversation we have every week with leaders standing up new functions. Twenty minutes, no deck, no pitch.

Talk It Through With Us →