Engage — Three Paths
Three engines. Three intake paths. One audit standard.
The firm is engaged through one of three written intake paths, one for each operating engine. There is no calendar to book and no pricing to pre-approve. The firm reviews fit before quoting. Every engagement is anchored to a named principal, a named decision, and the counterfactual the firm will be asked to reject.
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§ 01 Choose the path that names your decision
Audience
Clinicians, founders, operators, domain experts evaluating a market entry, a relocation, a launch, or a structural change in their practice or company.
Deliverable
A Stage-3 AI Mirror Full Report. Two-pathway opportunity / friction modelling, comparator-set analysis, an explicit recommendation, and a separated Decision-Maker Briefing in the report's own block.
Validation standard
VERIDEX Core (22 gates) plus engine extensions G·24–G·27.
Indicative timeline
6–10 weeks from intake acceptance to Stage-3 Full Report.
What the intake asks
- 01 The decision you are trying to make, named without ambiguity.
- 02 The two or three pathways you are weighing — even roughly.
- 03 The two or three constraints that already disqualify some answers.
- 04 The horizon over which the decision binds you (months, years, a career).
- 05 The counterfactual — what you would do if the firm were not engaged.
Begin AI Mirror intake →
Audience
US-domiciled enterprises and operating ventures requiring a firm-grade evaluation — geographic expansion, market entry, dual-revenue modelling, capital-entry sizing, jurisdictional comparison.
Deliverable
A VERIDEX BI USA Stage-3 Full Report. Two-pathway modelling at firm scale, capital-entry envelopes, jurisdictional tax and regulatory load, P50 / P10 / P90 revenue and margin trajectories, and a separated Decision-Maker Briefing.
Validation standard
VERIDEX Core (22 gates), engine-specific extensions, jurisdictional fiscal review.
Indicative timeline
8–12 weeks from intake acceptance to Stage-3 Full Report.
What the intake asks
- 01 The firm or venture, named, with current state of operations.
- 02 The decision under consideration — geography, scale, structure, or capital.
- 03 The capital you would bring to bear at the low and high ends.
- 04 The comparators you already consider relevant.
- 05 The audit standard the deliverable will have to satisfy downstream (board, investor, regulator).
Begin VERIDEX BI USA intake →
Audience
Sovereign principals, ministries of finance, central banks, multilateral institutions, and quasi-governmental bodies commissioning a fiscal-framework, public-finance, or macro-structural evaluation.
Deliverable
A Sovereign Mirror briefing or full report — typically two to four interlocking artefacts (e.g., Domestic Resource Mobilisation, Health Financing, Sovereign Fund, Sectoral Revenue) with a Decision-Maker Briefing in each.
Validation standard
VERIDEX Core (22 gates) plus the Sovereign Mirror extensions; explicit primary-source citation; counterfactual block per recommendation.
Indicative timeline
10–16 weeks from intake acceptance to first set of briefings.
What the intake asks
- 01 The principal, the ministry or office of authority, and the convening occasion (if any).
- 02 The fiscal or structural question, named without ambiguity.
- 03 The four to six instruments under consideration — even directionally.
- 04 The horizon and the political binding-window over which the brief must hold.
- 05 The audit standard the deliverable must satisfy on receipt (cabinet, IMF Article IV, multilateral co-financier, public release).
Begin Sovereign Mirror intake →
§ 02 The intake standard
What every intake holds to.
Fit before quote.
The firm reviews the intake before discussing fee. If the work is not a match for one of the three engines, the firm says so on the call rather than building an engagement around the wrong instrument.
One principal, one engagement.
Every engagement names a single decision-maker on the receiving side. The Decision-Maker Briefing is written for that reader. The firm does not run multi-stakeholder engagements without a named principal.
Counterfactual on the record.
Every Stage-3 deliverable carries the counterfactual — what the firm rejects and why — in the same paragraph as the recommendation. Engagements that cannot tolerate that discipline are not a fit.
Primary-source standard.
The firm cites primary sources, names institutions, and tags temporal provenance. Statistics that would not survive an audit do not enter the deliverable.
§ 03 If you are unsure which path applies
Write to the firm before you choose.
If your decision sits between two of the three paths — for example, an
operator working with a sovereign convener, or a clinician evaluating
a firm-grade expansion — the firm prefers a short note to a guessed
intake. A single paragraph naming the principal, the decision, and the
horizon is enough to route the question.