Governance governs all
Directs, authorizes, and checks every domain, including itself, and checks the running business directly.
How the five domains work together →What it answers
- Which policies and controls exist, and which exist only on paper?
- Who owns each one, and who has authority to change it?
- What was actually approved, by whom, and when?
- Do the key controls work when tested, not just when asserted?
- Where do decisions stall or get made by default?
For whom. PE owners after an acquisition or ahead of an exit; boards and CEOs of growing firms whose governance has not kept up; firms preparing for a regulator, an auditor, or a new owner.
How the evidence is produced
We inventory from the documents, then confirm ownership and approval with the people named, then test the critical controls directly: we trace a real case through, or check the record a control should have left. Every status in the register says how it was established: documented, confirmed by the owner, or tested.
What you receive
The decision and ownership register
Every in-scope policy, control, and recurring decision, with its owner, its approval status, and where the record lives.
Control test results
For the controls that matter most, a test of whether they fire, with the evidence.
The gap list
What has no owner, what was never approved, what doesn't work, ranked by exposure.
A short adoption plan
A few governance habits the firm can adopt in the next quarter, and the decisions it needs to make first.
What it takes from you
Policy and procedure documents, board and committee minutes, organization charts; interviews with the owners named; access to the records the critical controls should produce.
Where this leads
Proof
We publish results only with the client's agreement and against a stated baseline. None are published yet.