Focused review
The engagement
What we do
- A recorded, structured interview with the founder or CEO — read at mechanism level: not just what was said, but what it implies, what it contradicts, and what it avoids.
- Adversarial verification against your own material: every claim the business makes about itself is tested against the transcript, the numbers, and the market.
- Three hostile hunts: a cold-blooded CFO pass, a read of the story you tell buyers as the sales call it actually is, and an 18-month pre-mortem.
- Each blind spot priced: what not seeing it costs, with the arithmetic shown.
You receive
- The blind-spot register: what the business cannot see from inside — ranked, with the evidence beside each entry.
- The pre-mortem: the three most plausible ways the current strategy dies, written as if it already happened.
- A dated first step against every blind spot that matters.
How it runs
Five beats. None skipped.
Every engagement — this one included — runs the same verification pipeline. The full method →
01
Frame
Your question becomes researchable dimensions, agreed with you before an agent is fielded.
02
Fan out
Parallel agent fleets work the dimensions across the sources — independently.
03
Cross-examine
A second wave tries to refute every claim. Failures are struck through, not hidden.
04
Label
VERIFIED is cited. INFERENCE shows assumptions. UNVERIFIED says so.
05
Land
Every insight ends in a dated first step, sized, with assumptions named.