The diagnostic pilot, covering 20 to 40 dealer locations, is designed to be live within seven days of the scoping call where the pilot scope is agreed. Day one of the pilot includes the competition audit delivery. The Risk Engine is active from day one, not at the end of a configuration period.
The seven-day deployment timeline is possible because the pilot uses a standardised configuration rather than a fully bespoke setup. The escalation hierarchy, alert thresholds, and monitoring parameters are configured using the Locus home improvement industry template, which has been designed specifically for the dealer network governance challenges in this vertical. Brand-specific customisation is layered on after the pilot validates the core setup.
Full network rollout, covering the brand’s complete dealer network, typically takes four to eight weeks depending on the number of locations, the complexity of the escalation hierarchy, and the brand’s internal readiness. The primary dependencies on the brand side are providing accurate location data, defining the escalation hierarchy by location, and ensuring that the relevant regional managers and operations team members are set up in the system.
Brands that have done thorough preparation ahead of rollout, particularly on location data accuracy and hierarchy mapping, consistently see faster deployment than those who discover data quality issues during the rollout process. The pilot often surfaces these issues in a smaller set of locations, which allows them to be addressed before full rollout begins.
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