Will your decision survive the audit?
You sit on the Investment Committee. A project needs financing. The file mixes hard proof with self-reported claims, broken logs, and gaps where attribution should be. Decide what can be relied on, what must be validated, and what cannot be taken to the IC at all.
Three failure modes determine whether evidence holds under scrutiny.
Attribution
If a claim can't be traced to a real source, the claim collapses.
Who said this — and how do they know? Without an answer, a number is just a number.
Reconstruction
If the chain can't be rebuilt, the evidence is gone.
When logs break, the only question is whether independent records can restore them — or whether the claim dies with the gap.
Governance
If structure is missing, confidence becomes the substitute — and confidence fails audits.
Governance is what makes evidence hold under scrutiny, instead of resting on conviction in the room.
Convene the committee
Choose how the room decides, set the clock, then pick the deal on the table.
Classify all 12 items
Use this to classify each evidence item before deliberation.
Issue the committee's decision
One decision, on the record. The audit will test it against what the evidence actually supports.
The file, re-examined under scrutiny
Item-by-item findings
Which evidence items changed your decision — and why?
The debrief question that turns the game into governance training. Captured in the minutes.
Breakout groups, side by side
Use this to classify each evidence item before deliberation.
The teaching moment is the spread: same evidence, different calls, different audit fates.