What We Fix

The problem:

Every "innovation" conversation eventually turns into:

"How do we tweak the status quo?" instead of "What would we build if nothing constrained us?" Smart teams end up optimizing a broken model instead of designing a better one.

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What Torchlight does:

• Run "zero-gravity" strategy sessions where rules, funding limits, and legacy structures are temporarily suspended

• Use structured scenario modeling (not loose brainstorming) to unlock 10X ideas instead of 10% incrementalism

• Translate bold ideas into funding paths, policy levers, and implementation steps so they survive budget scrutiny, legislative committees, CMS, etc.

• Bring outside-sector thinking (e.g., tech, military strategy, gamer culture, behavioral science, media design) into rooms normally trapped in healthcare groupthink

 

End result: ideas that move us from transforming to transcending the complexities of the modern healthcare system.

The problem: most "value-based payment" models are just fee-for-service with extra paperwork. Providers are asked to reinvent care and become data analysts and manage risk and complete 47 reporting templates. All for marginal bonus dollars and no actual reductions in admin burden. The result? Burnout, resentment, and no actual ROI.

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What Torchlight does:

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Facilitate "innovation labs" where model participants share lessons learned, case studies, and promising practices across organizations.

• Care model first, payment model second — the financial model should follow the clinical redesign, not dictate it.
• Payers own the analytics, not providers. With today's data infrastructure, there is no excuse for clinic-level reporting burden.
• End the commoditization of care  — measure performance holistically, not condition-by-condition.
• Incentives that far surpass the scope of funding needed to operationalize the care model.

The problem:

You're surrounded by strategy docs, roadmaps, and operational frameworks, but stuck in limbo waiting for resources, authorization, and implementation.

What Torchlight does:

• Executive-level advisory on 90-day implementation plans with owners, timelines, and funding routes

• Stand-in COO/Project Director leadership to drive execution when internal bandwidth is gone

• Policy + finance alignment (so legal, budget, and operations can finally say "yes")

• Help leadership make and champion real decision, not more talking points.

• Real milestones + dashboards — not endless "next steps"
  
  End result: strategy that moves, not strategy that stalls.

The problem: the process becomes the product. Nothing ships.

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What Torchlight does:

• Replace committee paralysis with decision-focused design sprints 

• Stakeholder engagement and synthesis (interviews, focus groups, surveys   --> single decision brief)

• Rapid-cycle design sprints to replace annual planning logjams

• Execution governance — not advisory governance

• Negotiated alignment that holds everyone to outcomes, not opinions

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End result: escape the meeting hell. Respect for everyone's limited time.

The problem: 

Most consultants are loyal until the contract gets uncomfortable. Then they retreat to neutrality, protect their reputation, or quietly side with the funder. You're left exposed, holding the bag, and fighting the politics alone.

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What Torchlight does:

• We take a public stance when the work demands it — not just behind closed doors.

• We defend the vision in rooms you aren't invited into (legislature, exec boards, media, etc.)

• We help shape the narrative so you're not the only one carrying the risk.

• We don't ghost when funding gets tight, leadership flips, or critics get loud.

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End result: not just another partner — you have a trusted companion who takes the hits with you.