Trivex Consulting was formed in Vancouver to make habits and progress routines easier to discuss across specialist and operating teams. The practice grew around small rooms, annotated evidence, and a dislike of polished recommendations that nobody can operate. Its consultants turn habits and progress routines into working documents, workshop sequences, and decision records.
We keep our own methods under version control, and the changelog is a record of our mistakes. Session 9 of any engagement uses the current version, not the one we were fond of when the practice began. Practices that cannot change cannot stay honest.
The rhythm of a project matters more than its plan. Plans assume a calm that never arrives; rhythms survive interruptions because they define what happens next regardless of what just happened. Cadence, not heroics, is what our clients keep after we leave.
When a team tells us their problem is communication, we usually find a decision problem wearing a communication costume. Somebody, somewhere, did not decide — and every downstream conversation has been negotiating the gap ever since. We find the gap and close it.
We work the way we advise: decisions are written down while they are being made, not reconstructed afterwards. Every recommendation carries its evidence, its assumptions, and the name of the person who owns it, so a new team member can pick up the thread without a briefing cycle.
A steady rhythm beats a heroic sprint. We hold scope to what the calendar can genuinely absorb, review at a fixed cadence, and end each cycle with something finished rather than something almost finished. Momentum that survives contact with reality is the only kind we count.
Traceability is not paperwork for its own sake. When a decision is questioned six months later, the record shows what was known at the time, what was uncertain, and why the path taken looked best. Teams that can defend their history move faster, because they stop relitigating it.
We staff engagements with a small number of senior practitioners rather than a pyramid. The people who scope the work are the people who do it, and the client always knows exactly whose judgement stands behind each deliverable. Attention is the service; everything else is logistics.
2005 A compact studio for habits and progress routines, built around evidence and cadence — Vancouver.
2008 Weekly momentum studio
2011 Goal friction scan
2014 Accountability map
Managing Partner & Evidence Lead
Chief Process Cartographer
Senior Research Editor
Director of Decision Rooms