Proof
A demo proves a demo. We are after something harder.
Anyone can show software succeeding at chosen work on a chosen afternoon. Proof that a company runs without its founder has to survive a hostile reading: a buyer's diligence team, a lender's underwriter, your own worst skepticism.
Standing behind it
Client work is private. The claim has to be provable anyway.
A client's operating history belongs to the client, so it will not appear here as marketing. The burden of proof does not go away because of that. It moves onto three things built to be checked: the standard and the fee structure in public, and the record itself in diligence.
01 · THE STANDARD
Ten questions any claim of founder independence must answer. Published so you can hold us to them, in writing, in diligence.
02 · THE RECORD
Evidence accrues from the start of an engagement: dispositions, interventions, verified effects, held-out results. Built to be rerun, not summarized.
03 · THE FEE AT RISK
The largest fee is earned only after two independently measured results. Doubt is priced into the structure, on our side of the table.
The bar
Ten questions a claim of independence must answer.
Proof is a chain of evidence, not a benchmark or a highlight reel. For any claimed operating scope, the record should answer all ten, and a serious proof window fixes its scope, definitions, and failure conditions before the result is known.
- What was the complete denominator of required work, before results were known?
- What did the successor handle, refuse, escalate, or leave unresolved?
- Under what conditions and authority was it operating?
- Were effects verified independently of what the tools reported?
- What were the business outcomes, over which measurement windows?
- How often did the founder or staff intervene, counting the hidden rescues?
- How severe were the errors, and how fast and clean was recovery?
- How did it perform on cases withheld from its construction and improvement?
- Was it stable across time, relationships, interfaces, and changing company state?
- What responsibilities remained owned by people, and were they visibly owned?
Five dimensions stay separate in the record: coverage, conformance, reliability and continuity, intervention burden, and business outcomes. Every piece of due work receives a disposition, including completed, corrected, failed, deferred, transferred, unobserved, missing, or unresolved. Nothing averages away.
Commercial proof
The two tests behind the contingent fee.
Commercial proof is a separate determination from technical evidence, and it is deliberately conjunctive: the $200,000 build fee is earned only when both tests pass. Technical autonomy can explain why the numbers moved. It cannot substitute for either test.
TEST_01 · VALUE
2×
Independently measured sale value reaches at least 2 times the agreed normalized baseline. No completed sale is required.
TEST_02 · TIME
−80%
Founder operating time falls at least 80 percent below the agreed baseline.
If either test fails, the $200,000 is waived; the Foundation fee and earned managed-operation fees are not. Exact instrumentation, reviewer roles, and measurement protocol are controlled by the applicable agreement. Read the complete offer.
The deliverable
The Succession Dossier.
Evidence is only useful if the people who need to trust it can hold it. The Dossier is the designed form in which a company's record reaches a buyer, a lender, a family successor, or a management team.
The Dossier binds a claimed result to the exact evidence cut, calculations, evaluator versions, exclusions, unresolved cases, and reproduction procedure behind it, so a diligence team can rerun the reasoning instead of taking a summary's word. It is valid only for the operating scope, releases, authority, company state, and time interval it actually tested; later changes narrow, expire, or supersede it without rewriting the historical record.
Its exact contractual role, schema, and recipients are settled in the applicable agreement.
Next
Proof starts with a company that can produce it.
The evidence chain above can only be built where the work leaves a record. The fit screen checks whether yours does, in about ten minutes, privately in your browser.