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Your Team Isn't Unproductive. They're Drifting.

Cognitive drift redirects 3-8% of capacity from innovation toward firefighting, from deep work toward interruptions, from planned features toward invisible support.

Like ocean currents affecting a cormorant's dive, drift is natural. The problem isn't the drift—it's that you can't see it.

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The Universal Problem

This isn't a "your team" problem. It's an industry-wide pattern.

77%

of employees globally are disengaged (Gallup 2024)

83%

of organizations have knowledge silos (Global Business Review)

65%

of capacity consumed by "Keep the Lights On" work (Industry standard)

$8.9T

lost globally to disengagement—9% of world GDP (Gallup)

The "90% of businesses have this problem" claim is conservative. This is the norm, not the exception.

Is Your Team Experiencing Cognitive Drift?

Check any that sound familiar:

Reactive Drift

Same people always working late (effort drifting toward them)

Knowledge Drift

"Only [name] knows how to do that" (concentration forming)

Fragmentation Drift

Meetings dominate calendars (effort dispersing across contexts)

Overload Drift

Surprised by resignations (cognitive load exceeded threshold)

Shadow Drift

Onboarding takes months (tribal knowledge, undocumented work)

Innovation Drift

"We planned Feature X but spent the quarter firefighting"

If 3+ of these patterns sound familiar, you have cognitive drift. The only question is how much capacity it's consuming.

What's It Costing You?

Calculate your hidden annual drift cost

Formula: Team Size × Average Salary × Drift Factor (3-8%)

Team Size	Avg Salary	Drift (5%)	Hidden Annual Cost
10-20	$75,000	5%	$50K - $150K
20-50	$80,000	5%	$150K - $400K
50-100	$85,000	6%	$400K - $900K
100-250	$90,000	7%	$900K - $2M
250+	$95,000	8%	$2M+

*Based on research from Gallup, SHRM, and Forrester

The HEAT Solution

Make drift visible so you can correct course before capacity loss becomes crisis

Before HEAT

"Team worked 400 hours this week"
"Alice is a hard worker"
"Bob quit unexpectedly"
"We're at full capacity"

After HEAT (Drift Visibility)

"Team effort drifted 40% toward reactive work (Support/Blocker tags)"
"Alice shows overload drift: 🔥 Streak 5 days on same blocker"
"Bob exhibited drift signals for 3 months—we missed the pattern"
"65% capacity drifted to Support/Config—only 35% on planned Features"

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How It Works

Discovery → Build → Deploy (Strategy + Technology)

Phase 0

6D Discovery

Map cognitive drift patterns across your team

• Drift vector analysis

• Concentration risk mapping

• Overload signal detection

• Shadow work quantification

• Cascade pathway mapping

$20K

2-3 weeks

Phase 1

HEAT Implementation

Deploy framework for continuous drift visibility

• HEAT Framework deployment

• Integration with existing tools

• Team onboarding & training

• Alert threshold configuration

• Correction playbook

$35K

4-6 weeks

Phase 2

Ongoing Value

Continuous visibility and course correction

• Real-time drift monitoring

• Early warning system

• Weekly drift reports

• Proactive intervention

• Capacity optimization

Included

Continuous

Total Investment

$55K

To prevent $200K-$400K/year capacity loss

ROI: 2-6 month payback period

Proof: StratIQX Methodology in Action

HEAT demonstrates the 6D Foraging methodology works—not just theory

The Pattern We Discovered

Through 6D Foraging analysis across multiple organizations, we discovered cognitive drift affects 83% of teams and costs $8.9 trillion globally.

This isn't anecdotal—it's validated by Gallup, SHRM, and Forrester research.

Learn About 6D Foraging Methodology

The Solution We Built

HEAT is the productized framework we created after discovering this universal pattern. It's not generic software—it's a targeted solution for a specific discovered problem.

This is Strategy + Technology: Discover the problem → Build the solution → Deploy at scale.

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Ready to Make Drift Visible?

Schedule a 6D Discovery call. 30 minutes. We'll estimate your hidden cost and show you where the drift lives.

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Your Team Isn't Unproductive. They're Drifting.

Cognitive drift redirects 3-8% of capacity from innovation toward firefighting, from deep work toward interruptions, from planned features toward invisible support.

Like ocean currents affecting a cormorant's dive, drift is natural. The problem isn't the drift—it's that you can't see it.

Team Size

Avg Salary

Drift (5%)

Hidden Annual Cost

10-20

$75,000

$50K - $150K

20-50

$80,000

$150K - $400K

50-100

$85,000

$400K - $900K

100-250

$90,000

$900K - $2M

250+

$95,000

$2M+