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Weight
How serious the underlying matter is on its own terms, read from the record rather than from how loudly it was reported.
Deliverables
Every engagement resolves into one scored, sourced and readable assessment. Below is the standard we read against, and a redacted specimen of the assessment itself.
01The standard
One scale, applied the same way every time.
A search returns records. It does not tell a board what the record means, how much of it survives scrutiny, or what remains once the good news is credited. We read each finding on a 1-10 scale, adjust it through seven consistent factors, and express the result as what is left over.
02
Recency
Age is credited on a set curve. Recent matters carry full weight; older ones ease only where nothing since suggests otherwise.
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Repetition
One event is an event. The same event across separate counterparties is a characteristic, and is treated as one.
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Support
What actually stands behind the assertion. Anything unsupported is reported as unsupported and never scored as fact.
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Status
Whether a matter is concluded or still live. A live matter is exposure; a concluded one is history, and they are not scored alike.
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Correction
Evidenced corrective action reduces what remains. Asserted correction, without evidence, does not.
07
Transfer
How much of the exposure would actually move to you on signature. The same record reads differently for different counterparties.
Because the standard is disclosed, the conclusion can be questioned, repeated and defended in front of a committee.
02The deliverable
What arrives at the end of an engagement.
A single document a board can act on: a composite view, a summary of what the record shows, and a closing position. Below is a specimen with the subject, sources and counterparties removed.
Specimen assessment
Subject withheld · Pre-decision review
Prepared for counsel · Purpose established in writing
79%
Composite
Low residual exposure
Hover or tap a point to read what that measure covers.
Eight measures. One consistent view.
Every subject is read against the same measures, on the same scale, using the same disclosed standard. The shape is not decoration; it is the composite taken apart, and any point on it traces back to the record that produced it. Comparisons stay honest because the yardstick never moves.
- Scale
- 1-10 per measure
- Adjustments
- Applied consistently
- Output
- Single composite
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Released to verified requesters under NDA, following a short scoping call.
03Where it is applied
A signature is a decision about a record.
Most organisations make that decision on a press cycle and a reference call. The same standard applies whether the subject is an executive, a partner, an investment or a public figure attached to a brand.
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Before a signature
Partnerships, endorsements, senior appointments and investments, cleared against the record before consideration moves.
02
Alongside the network
The principals, sponsors and counterparties standing next to the subject, read to the same standard.
03
For the life of the deal
Where coverage is retained, the composite is re-derived on a cycle so the file in front of the committee is current.
Scope, depth and delivery windows are confirmed on a short scoping call. Samples are released to verified requesters under NDA.