Plan
Six steps, asynchronous
Agents research and structure. Your own people challenge, edit and sign off each step. Every unsigned line is labelled Draft.
Living Plans · Prospectus
Release 2026-09-09 · Nordic · Open sources only
A maintained Plan, not a document
Uncertainty is not the enemy. Unexamined assumptions are.
Living Plans turns the strategy you already have into a Plan that knows what it assumed. Each week it checks those assumptions against dated evidence, and names the decision now standing on nothing.
The register is free and needs no account. The evidence pass, the Assumption Audit, is €390, VAT excluded.
Latest public audit · 2026-10-10
Metso: Metso's end-2028 targets, one year into 'We go beyond.'
0 broken · 8 unresolved · 1 holding
- Assumption states
- Holds · Broken · Unresolved
- Watch cycle
- Weekly, one question
- Evidence
- Every finding carries a link
- Decision authority
- A named human, always
- Draft label
- On every unsigned line
- Beachhead
- Nordic, 200 to 5,000 staff
§ 01The register
Assumption Register
Extracted 2026-08-24 09:12 UTC
- 01
Clients will keep paying for advisory work priced by the hour.
Unresolvednot yet - 02
Our senior people are the scarce resource in every engagement.
Unresolvednot yet - 03
No competitor can produce a comparable report inside a week.
Unresolvednot yet - 04
Public procurement keeps favouring incumbent framework suppliers.
Unresolvednot yet - 05
Regulatory reporting work grows faster than we can staff it.
Unresolvednot yet - 06
Our regional offices are the reason we win local mandates.
Unresolvednot yet
6 of 14 shown · none checked yet
Specimen wording for a professional-services firm of 400 staff. Not a client register.
Your strategy, stated back to you as beliefs.
Give us the document you already have. Living Plans reads it and lists the assumptions it rests on, each with the sentence it came from. No commentary, no scoring, no colour.
Most organisations have never seen these sentences in one place. A plain numbered list is the sharpest thing we can show you.
Every one starts Unresolved
§ 02The problem
Strategy is still delivered as a document. The world moves on.
An organisation spends six weeks and a great deal of expert time producing a strategy. The document describes a world. The world then moves. Nobody rewrites the document, because rewriting it costs another six weeks.
So decisions keep being made against assumptions that quietly expired. Nobody can say which ones. This is not a knowledge problem. It is a maintenance problem.
The people who carry this are the ones personally accountable for the strategy holding up: heads of strategy and operations, continuity and preparedness leads.
They already did the work once. They know parts of it are no longer true, and they cannot prove which parts. They need a defensible answer when a board member asks whether the plan still holds.
What answers that question today
- A consultancy
- Sells the six-week cycle, then leaves.
- A foresight platform
- Describes the environment, not your plan.
- A monitoring service
- Delivers volume, never a verdict.
- A chat model and slides
- Produces an output nobody can audit.
- The register of risks
- Unopened since the last board meeting.
Each describes the future. None of them maintains a commitment.
§ 03The break
Then evidence arrives, and one belief is named.
Watch asks one narrow question each week: did anything happen that breaks something we assumed? Findings attach to the assumption they bear on, dated and sourced.
An assumption is Broken only when a named person confirms it and signs. The system narrows the options and exposes the consequence. It never chooses.
Assumption Register · after the evidence pass
Cycle 2026-08-17 · 14 checked
- 01
Clients will keep paying for advisory work priced by the hour.
Broken2026-08-17 - 02
Our senior people are the scarce resource in every engagement.
Unresolved2026-08-17 - 03
No competitor can produce a comparable report inside a week.
Broken2026-08-17 - 04
Public procurement keeps favouring incumbent framework suppliers.
Holds2026-08-17 - 05
Regulatory reporting work grows faster than we can staff it.
Holds2026-08-17 - 06
Our regional offices are the reason we win local mandates.
Holds2026-08-17
2 broken · 1 unresolved · 11 hold
Evidence Trail · assumption 01
Broken
- 2026-07-14
- Statistics office release: fixed-fee share of advisory revenue up 9.4% year on year.
- 2026-08-02
- Two listed competitors' interim reports name outcome-priced mandates as the growth line.
- 2026-08-11
- Two of the firm's three largest clients moved to fixed scope at renewal.
Decisions resting on this assumption: the 2027 pricing model, and the senior hiring plan.
Broken · signed by the head of operations · 2026-08-02 14:30 UTC
Specimen. In the product every line links to the source it came from, and the Break record is a one-page document you can put in a board pack.
§ 04The method
Borrowed from military planning, where a plan has to outlive the day it was written.
Militaries solved this long ago, not by guessing better, but by treating a plan as a structured object: explicit assumptions, named forces, branches, decision points, a defined end state.
When reality contradicts an assumption, you know exactly which branch just became invalid. Language models make that structure cheap to build, and cheap to keep alive.
The name is the claim. A living plan is one someone maintains against the record. The alternative is a document that was true on the day it was delivered and has been decaying quietly ever since, unread.
Figure 1 · scenario branches, two invalidated
- 01
Current state
Where the organisation actually stands, stated plainly.
- 02
Threats and opportunities
What could move against you, and for you.
- 03
Driving forces and counterforces
What pushes the situation forward, and what pushes back.
- 04
Scenario branches
The alternative courses the situation may take.
- 05
Decision points
Where a choice must be made, and by whom.
- 06
End state
The outcome the Plan is built to reach.
§ 05Three surfaces, one engine
Watch
One question each week
Did anything happen that breaks something we assumed? Evidence comes from open sources and any feed you pin to a named assumption.
Run
Execution against the Plan
Decision points with dates and owners, and a Revision history showing what changed, on what source, signed by whom.
§ 06Two hard constraints
Every claim traces to a source.
A plan you cannot inspect cannot be defended to a board, a regulator or a parliamentary committee. So the reasoning is built to be checked rather than to impress.
Human decision authority is absolute.
Every machine-written line carries the Draft label until a named person signs it. Living Plans narrows options and exposes consequences. It never decides.
Living Plans works on open sources and the material you supply. It does not watch people. The hosted product cannot take classified input, and we say so before anyone has to ask.
§ 07What it costs
One-time purchases, payable on a corporate card.
A consultancy sells the sprint and walks away. Living Plans sells the audit and the Plan in order to sell the maintenance, which is where the value sits.
Prices in euros, VAT excluded. The Assumption Audit is open now. The Plan and the Maintained Plan are scoped with a person first.
Start an Assumption Audit- Assumption Audit
- Give us the strategy you already have. We state its assumptions back to you, then report which ones open evidence already contradicts.
- €390
- Plan
- The full six-step Plan, built on the audited assumptions, edited and signed by your own people.
- €4,900
- Maintained Plan
- Twelve months of Watch and Run on one Plan. A one-time licence, re-bought at expiry. We do not bill recurringly.
- €12,000
The engine in public
Every week, one published strategy, audited in the open.
Living Plans takes a publicly published strategy, states its assumptions, and publishes which ones open evidence already contradicts. Sourced and dated. Never naming or mocking a person: the subject is always a document.
Your own document goes through the same machine. Send it, read the register it produces, and decide then whether the evidence is worth €390.
§ 09The briefing
One audit a week, by email, the day it is published.
A document, the assumptions it rests on, the verdicts and the dated sources behind each one. Nothing else is sent to this list, and one click leaves it.