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Evidence notes from the operating chair.

Short, testable, written natively in English. Every published note carries a hypothesis, the evidence that tested it, and a verdict standard you can apply to your own decisions. No thought leadership. No unattributed claims.

  • 14
    notes published
  • 6
    frameworks
  • 1
    verdict standard per note
Frameworks

Six frameworks. One discipline.

Each framework groups the notes that test the same class of decision. Pick the one closest to the decision on your desk this quarter.

Deal Reality · ForthcomingCash & Capital · ForthcomingGovernance under pressure · Forthcoming
All notes

The Discipline · Deal Reality · MarginLeak · Cash & Capital · AI, honestly · Governance

16 notes · 14 published
  • 01The Discipline
    Evidence before scale
    The one rule that reorders every other rule in the firm.
    1 min read
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  • 01AI, honestly
    AI, honestly
    The frame for the whole framework: no vendor pitches, no unattributed claims.
    1 min read
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  • 01MarginLeak
    Your revenue is visible. Your margin leakage is not.
    How true profitability by customer, product, channel and payment behaviour hides in the data you already own.
    1 min read
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  • 02The Discipline
    Written natively, never machine-translated
    Two languages, one evidence standard. Where translation quietly loses the verdict.
    7 min read
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  • 02AI, honestly
    Human-in-the-loop, honestly
    Where the loop actually catches errors — and where it just makes the deck look responsible.
    7 min read
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  • 03The Discipline
    The operating chair
    What separates the seat that decides from the seat that advises.
    7 min read
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  • 03AI, honestly
    Governance for models that keep learning
    The controls a board needs when the model in production is not the one it approved.
    7 min read
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  • 04The Discipline
    Ninety minutes is a discipline
    Why the first evidence loop is short by design, and what fits inside it.
    7 min read
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  • 04AI, honestly
    Productivity is a P&L claim, not a demo
    How to test productivity gains against the ledger, not the slide.
    7 min read
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  • 05The Discipline
    The refusal list
    The rules we keep so the evidence stays honest — including the mandates we decline.
    7 min read
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Method

How we write.

Hypothesis first

Every note opens with a claim we can be wrong about. If the claim is safe, the note does not ship.

Evidence in the note

Sources, samples and math live inside the note, not in an appendix. If you cannot re-run it, we have not written it.

Verdict you can apply

Each note closes with a verdict standard — a rule you can apply to your own decision on Monday morning, not a call to think differently.

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