Authority & approvals

Authority & approvals intelligence examining the operating conditions, decisions, dependencies, and evidence that matter in consequential private and institutional environments.

9 pieces
01

Observation / Capital & Diligence

Control Follows the Identity Layer After Close

The buyer may own the shares at close, but practical control follows accounts, administrators, recovery paths and machine identities.
02

Field Guide / Private Capability

Where Automation May Act—and Where It Must Stop

A decision model for AI agents and automation: what may prepare, recommend, approve or execute—and where human authority must remain.
03

Doctrine / Authority & Assets

Delegation Is an Operating System

A practical model for delegating speed without surrendering control: mandate, decision, execution, evidence and reconciliation.
04

Field Guide / Authority & Assets

Advisor Transitions Leave Ghost Access

Why changing lawyers, bankers, accountants or technology providers leaves hidden access—and the day 0, 30 and 90 controls that close it.
05

Field Guide / Authority & Assets

Every High-Value Instruction Is a Trust Decision

Email, voice and video can all be imitated. Here is the operating protocol for verifying high-value instructions without paralysing the organisation.
06

Briefing / Authority & Assets

Who Can Bind the Institution When the Chain Breaks?

A practical model for emergency authority when a principal, director or key adviser is unavailable—and decisions cannot wait.
07

Observation / Authority & Assets

The Assistant May Hold More Power Than the Principal

Why executive assistants can become the practical control plane for identity, money and reputation—and how to govern that authority without destroying speed.
08

Assessment / Access & Continuity

The Principal’s Accounts Form a Single Trust Perimeter

Email, telecoms, devices, financial platforms and assistants share authority. Map them as one trust perimeter before the weakest transfers control.
09

Doctrine / Access & Continuity

Continuity Is an Authority Problem

Systems do not recover themselves. Operational resilience depends on who can declare, isolate, restore, communicate and accept consequence.