The flagship service
The Expedition
Design Review.
An independent pressure-test of your plan — ninety minutes with someone who has already made the mistake you're about to, a written report, and one verdict: ready, ready with actions, or not yet. Not coaching. Not a course. A professional call on whether you're actually ready to go.
90 min
conversation
written report
5 routes
add-on ready
48 hr
turnaround
Who this is for
Riders about to attempt
something bigger
than last time.
✓ Good fit
First remote solo trip — Dalton, Cassiar, Cape York, Iceland
✓ Good fit
First trip loaded to full expedition weight
✓ Good fit
First trip crossing a real weather regime change
✓ Good fit
Post-crash return-to-riding after a load-related incident
✗ Not this
You want gear recommendations only — Instagram is free
✗ Not this
You want a coach or a training plan — different discipline
✗ Not this
You want validation of a plan you're not open to changing
✗ Not this
You need certified mechanical inspection — see your dealer
What actually happens
Before we speak
You · async · ~30 min your time
Before we talk, you fill in a short brief. Route, dates, rig, previous longest trip, whatever's already keeping you up at night. If you've run your plan through Expedition OS, share the output — it saves us the first fifteen minutes of the conversation.
- ·Trip type, route, dates, dominant weather
- ·Vehicle: make/model/year, weight-when-empty, tyres, mods
- ·Trip history: last three trips of more than 3 days
- ·Specific concerns you already know about
- ·Optional: your Expedition OS plan output
The conversation
90 minutes · Video call (in-person by arrangement)
Not a script. A structured conversation about whether your plan actually holds up. We walk it front-to-back across nine plain areas — medical, tools and repair, water, camp and sleep, food, cooking, electronics, navigation and documents, personal gear — stopping wherever it's thin, generous where it doesn't need to be, or built on an assumption that won't survive the first hard day. Every question comes back to one thing: does this plan actually serve why you're taking the trip.
- ·Route intelligence: known hazards, weather windows, resupply gaps
- ·Load: front/rear balance, C.G., dry weight vs total weight
- ·Mechanical: pre-trip checks, spares kit, common failure modes for your rig
- ·Comms + emergency: coverage gaps, plan filing, medivac plan
- ·Sleep + shelter: what your setup actually does at 3 am
- ·Food + water: realistic caloric budget vs what you're carrying
The report
48-hour turnaround · delivered as PDF
You get a written Expedition Readiness Report — a document you can print and take with you, or hand to whoever's waiting for you to call in. Every recommendation is rated Critical / Advised / Optional so you know what to fix before you leave and what can wait, and the whole thing ends in one verdict.
- ·Readiness verdict up front — green, amber, or red, no hedging
- ·Priority tier: Critical (fix before departure) / Advised / Optional
- ·Rationale in one line — no hand-waving
- ·Suggested substitutions with links, no affiliate weight
- ·A one-page pre-departure checklist derived from the review
The follow-up
Within 6 months of departure · async, 15 min
One short async follow-up is included. Send a photo of your final loadout, or a question that came up on the road. If the review changed the outcome — good or bad — I want to know. That's how the next one gets better.
- ·One 15-minute async follow-up included
- ·Any question the review didn't cover
- ·Post-trip debrief encouraged, not required
- ·Anonymised outcomes feed back into Expedition OS
The Expedition Readiness Report
Coming soonA preview of the document you'll actually take with you.
We're building a live preview of the report itself — same structure, same verdict engine, redacted sample content. Here's what's in it.
Concept preview — report layout
Concept mockup — final layout may differ.
Report anatomy
- 1Mission
- 2Readiness Status
- 3Critical Actions
- 4Executive Summary
- 5Route
- 6Weather
- 7Communications
- 8Medical
- 9Logistics
- 10Equipment
- 11Load Distribution
- 12Risk Review
- 13Operations Plan
- 14Appendices
Readiness Status — the last page you read first
🟢 Green
Ready to Depart
No significant issues. Proceed as planned.
🟡 Amber
Ready with Required Actions
Achievable once listed actions are done.
🔴 Red
Not Recommended to Depart
Significant weaknesses. Redesign first.
From the Cape York sample review — excerpt from the Mission section (preview, redacted)
“Stated mission: a bucket-list solo crossing, not a race. Current plan is built like a race — compressed timeline, no weather buffer, fuel margins that assume nothing goes wrong. Nothing here is unrideable. It's just not built for the trip you said you're taking. That gap is the finding, not the tyres.”
— Sample preview · names and specifics redacted
Add-on to the Review
Route Intelligence Add-on
Optional · flat $95 USD
For five reference routes — Dalton, Cassiar, Cape York, Kimberley (Gibb River Rd), Iceland F-roads — add a route-specific brief to your Review: weather-window strategy, fuel plan, comms gaps, and the three failure modes that catch first-timers on that route.
Not on the list? Ask. If we've ridden it, we'll say so. If we haven't, we won't pretend.
The guarantee
If you don't leave the conversation with at least three things you'll change, the Review is free.
No fine print, no forms, no arbitration clause. Send a one-line email within 24 hours after the conversation and I refund the fee. This has never happened. It exists because it should exist.
Ready
First ten Reviews at $150 USD.
Founding Expedition Rate. After the tenth, the price returns to $295 USD. Route Intelligence add-on stays at $95 USD either way.
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