Pre-Execution Pressure Test

Pre-Execution Pressure Test™

Validate decisions before they hit reality

Most organisations can generate decisions.

Far fewer can reliably determine whether those decisions should execute.

The Pre-Execution Pressure Test reveals where real decisions break before consequence binds — across scenario, authority, and execution.

Where decisions break before execution

⚠️ The Gap

Where decisions actually fail

Decisions do not usually fail in the model.

They fail at the point where execution is about to happen.

• capital committed without full assurance
• decisions made outside authority conditions
• execution triggered before validation
• rework caused by incomplete or misaligned decisions

🔴 What the Pressure Test Does

What the Pre-Execution Pressure Test does

The Pre-Execution Pressure Test evaluates real decisions at the moment execution would bind consequence (T=0), to determine whether execution is admissible.

It does not model decisions in theory.

It tests whether those decisions would actually hold when they are about to execute.

Decision exists → execution trigger → admissibility check → execution

Most organisations do not have a control point at this commit-time boundary.

This is pre-execution validation of enterprise decisions.

Scenario Integrity

Does the model make sense?

Decision Integrity

What is actually being committed?

Authority & Admissibility

Can this be executed?

Execution Admissibility Assurance

The Pre-Execution Pressure Test™ is the entry point to Execution Admissibility Assurance.

It identifies where actions are allowed to execute without:

• valid authority
• current state
• acceptable context
• sufficient evidence

🧱 Core Method

How it works

Scenario → Decision → Authority → Execution

Mandate → Delegated Authority → Decision Actor → Admissibility Check → Execution Event

This method maps how decisions become executable actions, and where authority and admissibility must be explicit before execution is permitted.

This method determines whether execution would be admissible at T=0.

🟡 Authority Pressure Test™

Authority Pressure Test™ (Core Mechanism)

The Authority Pressure Test maps the full decision authority chain behind execution.

Mandate → Delegated Authority → Decision Actor → Admissibility Check → Execution Event

• reveals implicit authority
• identifies governance gaps
• exposes uncontrolled execution

📦 What You Receive

What Your Team Gains

The value is not only in the output. It is also in how your team learns to see decision-to-execution risk more clearly.

• A clearer mental model of how decisions become executable
• Better visibility into where authority actually sits
• A practical way to identify execution risk before commitment
• A stronger internal capability for structuring and validating decisions

🧭 Where it is used

Banking

• loan approvals
• payment blocking or release
• credit limit changes

Insurance

• claims approvals
• automated claim rejection
• fraud escalation decisions

Infrastructure & Utilities

• capital project approvals
• automated operational responses
• safety incident escalation

Government

• eligibility decisions
• compliance enforcement
• automated regulatory actions

⚙️ Engagement model

Scope: 1 critical decision or workflow

Duration: 2–4 weeks

Client effort: 2–3 workshops

No system integration required.

Uses your existing data, decisions, and authority structures.

Process

1. Scenario and decision selection
2. Decision and authority mapping
3. Pressure testing
4. Admissibility evaluation
5. Findings and guardrails

From Pressure Test to Architecture of Record

The Pre-Execution Pressure Test is not an isolated diagnostic.

It is the starting point for defining how enterprise architecture must operate to ensure decisions are controlled before execution.

The Pressure Test produces the first version of the Architecture of Record (AoR), which defines where control must exist across decision and execution.

🔴 Pre-Execution Pressure Test

Diagnose where control is missing

• identifies where decisions break before execution
• reveals implicit authority and uncontrolled execution paths
• exposes where admissibility is not enforced
• surfaces cross-domain conflicts and constraint failures

🟡 Architecture of Record (AoR)

Define how control should operate

• defines control surfaces between decision and execution
• establishes authority structures and decision ownership
• specifies admissibility evaluation points
• introduces commit boundaries and execution constraints
• defines system and process boundaries

🔵 SCIA / Execution Admissibility Architecture

Implement persistent control

• enforces admissibility before execution
• introduces non-bypassable control points
• ensures consequence is bound only after validation
• enables governed, repeatable execution across systems

This progression enables organisations to move from identifying isolated decision risks to establishing a coherent, enterprise-wide control architecture governing how decisions are executed.

This is how we move from diagnosing isolated decision risk to designing enterprise-wide execution control.

In practice, organisations typically begin with a Pressure Test on a high-consequence decision or workflow.

This provides a concrete foundation for defining the Architecture of Record and implementing Execution Admissibility Architecture.

🔷 Architectural context

Why this matters architecturally:

• Execution Admissibility Architecture
• SCIA Reference Architecture
• Architecture of Record (AoR)

🎯 Final CTA

Most organisations discover these issues during delivery.

We surface them before execution.

Start with one high-consequence decision.

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