Domain Fellows

The experts who sign

AI can structure a problem in hours. It cannot hold professional liability. Domain Fellows are licensed experts who review and sign the technical, financial and legal parts of our work.
Apply to become a Domain FellowWhat a Fellow does
Chartered engineers · Chartered accountants · Lawyers · Retired sector leaders

In short

Domain Fellows are licensed experts, such as chartered engineers, chartered accountants and lawyers, who review and sign the technical, financial and legal parts of strategy1's work. AI can structure a problem in hours but cannot hold professional liability. Fellows are paid per review and sign only what they review.

The role

What a Domain Fellow does

A Domain Fellow is a licensed expert paid per review to sign off technical, financial or legal conclusions. Fellows are chartered engineers, chartered accountants, lawyers and retired sector leaders.

In every engagement, the Decide gate needs two things before a decision memo is issued: the Strategy Council's approval, and a Domain Fellow's sign-off on any part that carries professional liability. Sections a Fellow has signed are marked ✓ in the deliverable, with their name.

Bearded man in glasses reading a printed sheet with a pencil in hand in a bright room with a white brick wall.
Decide gateStrategy Council approval + Fellow sign-off
IssuedSections a Fellow has signed are marked ✓ in the deliverable, with their name.
Fig 4.1The Decide gate needs two things before a decision memo is issued: the Strategy Council's approval, and a Domain Fellow's sign-off on any part that carries professional liability.

For clients

Why it matters to clients

strategy1 provides decision support and blueprints. Licensed professionals sign technical, financial and legal conclusions. A blueprint is not bankable engineering: yield simulation, grid studies, surveys and protection design still need licensed engineers. Fellows make sure our work says where its limits are.

A blueprint is not bankable engineering. Still needs licensed engineers:

  • Yield simulation
  • Grid studies
  • Surveys
  • Protection design

For Fellows

What Fellows get

  1. 01

    Paid per review, at a rate agreed before you start

  2. 02

    Focused work: the parts that need your judgement, with the evidence already traced and graded

  3. 03

    Your name on the sections you sign, and only those

  4. 04

    The right to refuse a review, or to send work back with conditions

Who we need first

Fellows we are looking for first

Our first Fellows are joining now. We publish a Fellow's name only with a signed agreement and their consent.
  • 01Energy
  • 02Finance
  • 03Legal
  • 04Brand

How to apply

Apply to become a Domain Fellow

Tell us your discipline, licence and sectors. We verify your registration before any review.

  1. Apply

    Tell us your discipline, licence and sectors.

    10 minutes

  2. Verification

    We check your registration with the issuing body.

  3. Conversation

    30 minutes with a Strategy Partner on how reviews work.

    30 min

  4. Trial review

    One paid review on a past, anonymised deliverable.

  5. Agreement

    Fellow agreement, conflict rules and consent to be named.

Fig 4.2From application to agreement. We publish a Fellow's name only with a signed agreement and their consent.
Start your application

FAQ

Questions about Domain Fellows

What is a Domain Fellow?
A Domain Fellow is a licensed expert paid per review to sign off technical, financial or legal conclusions in strategy1's work. Fellows are chartered engineers, chartered accountants, lawyers and retired sector leaders. Sections a Fellow has signed are marked in the deliverable with their name, and strategy1 publishes a Fellow's name only with a signed agreement and their consent.
How are Domain Fellows paid?
Domain Fellows are paid per review, at a rate agreed before the review starts. Each review covers only the parts that need the Fellow's judgement, with the evidence already traced and graded, and a Fellow can refuse a review or send the work back with conditions.
What do Domain Fellows sign?
Domain Fellows sign the parts of a strategy1 deliverable that carry professional liability: technical, financial and legal conclusions. At the Decide gate, a decision memo needs both the Strategy Council's approval and a Fellow's sign-off on any such part. Fellows put their name on the sections they sign, and only those.
How do I become a Domain Fellow?
Apply with your discipline, licence and sectors, which takes about 10 minutes. strategy1 then verifies your registration with the issuing body, holds a 30-minute conversation with a Strategy Partner, runs one paid trial review on a past, anonymised deliverable, and signs a Fellow agreement covering conflict rules and consent to be named.

Apply to become a Domain Fellow

Paid per review, at a rate agreed before you start. Your name on the sections you sign, and only those.

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