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The Human System Behind AI

ShiftDegree builds the operating system, governance, and capability behind real AI business outcomes.

Description

ShiftDegree helps Phenom customers get full value from the platform by working on the leadership decisions, ownership, and daily workflows that drive adoption. Co-Founder Leah Merli implemented Phenom in her previous executive role, working with Phenom implementation partners, before starting ShiftDegree to focus on readiness and adoption. Co-Founder Meghan Smith brings 25+ years of experience helping CEOs and executive teams redesign operating models, workflows, decision rights, and organizational capability through periods of growth and transformation. We work alongside Phenom and its implementation partners so leadership, governance, ownership, workflow, and adoption decisions move in parallel with the technology build. SCAN is our most common starting point, a focused, fixed-fee diagnostic that shows what is slowing adoption and what should happen next, with later phases separately scoped and gated.

Solution Overview

Phenom gives talent teams a strong foundation for hiring and talent management, and the return grows as recruiters and hiring managers build it into their daily work, AI capabilities move from pilot to scale, and leaders take ownership of the results.

How it works

  • SCAN. A readiness diagnostic ending in an Executive Readout and a roadmap your leadership can act on.
  • SHIFT. Named owners sign for outcomes, decision rights for AI in hiring are set, and each pilot gets a go, park, or stop decision.
  • SUSTAIN. We take one priority workflow through design, build, and embed in an 8 to 10 week sprint, helping the team adopt the new way of working and measuring the business value it creates.

Why ShiftDegree

  • Phenom experience. Leah has run a Phenom implementation from the customer side and knows the platform and its partner ecosystem well, which makes ShiftDegree easy to bring into an existing Phenom program.
  • Speed. The organizational work runs at the same time as the technology build, so teams are prepared to use the platform as it goes live.
  • Operators in the work. We are operations leaders who have held the roles our clients hold, and we work with teams to redesign workflows, clarify ownership, and measure whether the change is delivering value to the P&L.
  • A practical way to start. SCAN is a fixed-fee first step and each later phase is separately scoped, so clients can move forward without a large upfront consulting commitment.

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Testimonials

ShiftDegree’s SCAN assessment showed us where management time was going across our 180 locations and which workflows to change first. We redesigned labour scheduling and markdown planning, and through SHIFT we clarified decision rights and made District Managers accountable for operational performance. Those changes returned 900 hours of management time each week, the equivalent of more than 22 full-time managers. We have redirected that time to sales-floor leadership, customer service and decisions that protect margin, with no additional management headcount.

Enterprise Retail Organization

AI-enabled operating model redesign

We had already built AI into our product, but we wanted to make sure it was properly embedded across the business. We engaged ShiftDegree, who started with a SCAN that showed us where our governance and decision-making had not kept pace. They partnered with us to identify what was getting in the way and where we needed to make clearer decisions, which is exactly what we needed. We came away with clear priorities, a practical path forward, defined decision rights, and a plan our own team could own and run. The result was more than a roadmap. Our leadership team left aligned on how AI should support the business, clear on who owned what, and ready to move the work forward ourselves.

A full-service event technology solutions provider

AI adoption and workflow redesign

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