Where to start

Start with the question on the agenda.

Nobody runs eighteen skills at once. Pick the question your board is asking, deploy the organisation that will own the answer, then follow the sequence.

By question

What is your board asking?

The sequence

Deploy the organisation first, then four steps.

Every skill is run by a role. If the roles don't exist, the output has nowhere to land, so step zero sets decision rights and ownership before the first assessment.

0
Before anything

Deploy the org

Every output below needs a named owner. Decision rights, RACI and agent roles come first.

1
Week 1

Baseline

Two diagnostics, one sitting each. A scored picture of the data and the organisation, and a red-flag list.

2
Week 2

Quantify

A defensible dollar figure on what the gaps cost, computed from your own tickets and logs. This is what funds everything after it.

3
Quarter 1

Act

Route the defects to owners. Fix the definitions. The top three red flags become workstreams with names against them. For an agentic AI use case, Day Zero turns the baseline into a hundred-day plan.

4
Every quarter

Monitor

Re-run and trend: Patch Ratio, exposure, maturity. The second run is where the value is, because movement is what a board acts on.

By situation

Combinations that work together.

Start here

CDO Core

The annual baseline. Run it, act on it, re-run it next year and show the movement.

Transaction

For deal teams, and anyone buying, selling or separating a business.

AI Value

For proving what the AI spend is actually producing, and that it behaves.

Cadence

A consulting assessment is a one-off. A skill is a baseline you re-run.

Honest limits

What these skills do not do.

They do not make the decision.Each skill produces a scored, evidenced recommendation. What the business funds is a judgement about appetite, politics and timing.
They do not create the alignment.A framework can't persuade a source-system owner to accept a defect.
They do not carry accountability.A human is always Accountable. Accountability never delegates.
They do not replace domain knowledge.Someone who knows the business still has to answer the questions, and know when an answer is wrong.
They are not a substitute for verification.Turning an asserted finding into an evidenced one is human work.
They do not remove the practitioner.The output is only as good as the framing. That part is worth paying for.

Not sure which one fits?

Tell Harveer the question and he'll point you to the first skill.