Intrenion

Technology Decision Readiness Review

Focused on contract commitments and operating model consequences

Decision Readiness Review for Board, Budget, and Contract Commitments

Projects rarely fail because teams lack analysis or slides.

They fail when unclear decisions collapse just before a technology commitment becomes hard to reverse.

That moment is usually one of these gates:

Up to that point, ambiguity can survive. At the gate, it cannot. Questions surface, contradictions appear, ownership is unclear, and progress stalls or reverses.

This review exists to surface those failures before they become expensive.

The problem this addresses

Most project materials look structured but mix decisions, assumptions, and intentions into a single narrative. Different stakeholders read the same text differently and believe different things have been decided.

This does not matter while plans are still soft. It matters when technology procurement decisions begin to lock in scope, responsibilities, data handling, workflows, or accountability across functions.

In all cases, the issue is not missing information. It is missing decisions.

What the Decision Readiness Review does

The review takes your existing project and procurement material. It rebuilds it into a decision backbone: a short list of explicit, testable decisions that can survive scrutiny at the commitment gate you are approaching.

Each decision is expressed as a single, concrete sentence that states:

There is no narrative, no justification, and no interpretation required. Every sentence can be accepted, rejected, or corrected without debate.

The result is a control artifact that all contracts, plans, slides, and discussions must align with.

What you get

At the end of the review, you receive:

If something cannot survive scrutiny, it is corrected or removed before the commitment is made.

What this is not

To avoid misunderstandings:

The work is judgment under pressure, not content creation.

Common failure points at decision gates

These are recurring patterns observed when decisions are implicit rather than explicit.

Examples of decision backbones

The links below show complete decision backbones produced using this approach. They are not summaries or templates; they are finished control artifacts.

They show what “ready” looks like when decisions are explicit.

Engagement format

What happens next

The review is not delivered as a fixed sequence of steps. It is an iterative working phase focused on getting a set of decisions through a specific commitment gate.

Work typically includes the following categories, not all of them at once, and not in a predefined order:

  1. Material intake and commitment framing
    Reviewing existing drafts, notes, slides, or contract material and clarifying the commitment, the decisions must survive.
  2. Decision extraction and drafting
    Identifying implicit commitments and turning them into explicit decision statements that can be accepted, rejected, or corrected.
  3. Analytical stress testing
    Attacking decisions against real constraints, incentives, risks, and likely objections rather than internal logic alone.
  4. Joint detailing and correction
    Working through decisions together to remove ambiguity, contradictions, or hidden dependencies.
  5. Stakeholder discussion support
    Preparing decisions for exposure, responding to pushback, and adjusting wording or scope to address real resistance.
  6. Alignment and narrowing
    Reducing options, clarifying ownership, and making downsides explicit as pressure increases.
  7. Rework and hardening
    Iterating until the decision backbone is internally consistent and ready for an irreversible commitment.

These activities repeat as needed. There is no fixed number of rounds.

Timing: Three weeks is an optimistic guideline. Actual duration depends on stakeholder availability, escalation paths, and the extent of conflict that surfaces, not on the amount of work performed.

Output: A decision backbone that has already survived real scrutiny and can be used with confidence at the commitment gate.

After the review

The Decision Readiness Review includes unlimited support for the specific technology commitment we are working toward.

That means stakeholder pushback, clarification, and correction required to get the decisions through the commitment gate are covered. We iterate until the commitment is made or explicitly stopped. Once the gate is passed, the review ends.

Continued support beyond that point is set up separately as a bounded retainer for a project, program, or decision process. Nothing rolls over automatically.

Pricing

Decision Readiness Review

For one specific technology contract, sourcing decision, or operating model commitment.

Price range: 15.000 EUR - 30.000 EUR

This covers:

This does not cover:

The exact price is fixed before work starts and depends on decision quality at intake, the number of stakeholders involved, and the expected level of commitment pressure.

Pricing is tied to decision commitments, not hours or documents. If no irreversible commitment is approaching, the review is usually not worth doing.

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