Glossary
Strategy glossary
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What is in the strategy1 glossary?
The strategy1 glossary defines the terms used across the site, from the Strategy Twin and the S1 Method to evidence ledgers and red-team reports, plus common strategy terms such as go-to-market strategy, scenario planning and IPO readiness. Each entry gives one plain definition and links to the page that explains it in full.
Terms starting with 0–9
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72-Hour Strategy Bootcamp
The 72-Hour Strategy Bootcamp is strategy1's fixed-fee format for one real problem. In 3–5 days a strategist and AI agents build a starter Strategy Twin and a working strategy you can act on, ending in a decision memo your leadership has signed. The fee is credited if you continue to an Engine Sprint.
72-Hour Strategy Bootcamp: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on The 72-Hour Strategy Bootcamp
Terms starting with A
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Agent Mesh
The Agent Mesh is strategy1's design for how AI agents work together inside its engines. Eight agent types, from the Orchestrator and Research agents to the Red team and Governance agents, each have one job and one guardrail, and every agent reads and writes only through the client's Strategy Twin, never directly to the others.
Agent Mesh: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on The Agent Mesh
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AI-native strategy
AI-native strategy is strategy work designed around AI from the start, rather than with AI added to a traditional process. At strategy1 it means AI agents research, model and red-team over a living Strategy Twin, every calculation runs in tested code, and named people approve every recommendation at signed gates.
AI-native strategy: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on About strategy1
Terms starting with C
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Compression Index
The Compression Index is an independent specialist's baseline time divided by strategy1's time for the same deliverable, both measured in working hours. A higher index means the same work took less time. strategy1 publishes an index only when every check passes, and always with its baseline document.
Compression Index: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on The Compression Index
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Confidence grade
A confidence grade is the rating strategy1 attaches to every key figure, showing how strongly its sources support it: from a verified primary source or the client's own data, through a credible secondary source, to a model estimate. Conclusions that rest on an estimate carry the same grade, so readers see where uncertainty sits.
Confidence grade: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on Evidence and trust
Terms starting with D
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Decision memo
A decision memo is a short document that records a business decision: the question, the options considered, the recommendation, the evidence and risks behind it, and who approved it. It gives leaders one place to decide and leaves a record of why the choice was made.
Decision memo: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on The S1 Method: the Decide stage
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Digital twin of an organisation
A digital twin of an organisation (DTO) is a dynamic software model of how a business works: its structure, processes, resources and performance, kept current with operational data so leaders can test changes before making them. The idea extends engineering digital twins, which model physical assets, to the whole enterprise.
Digital twin of an organisation: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on The Strategy Twin
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Domain Fellows
Domain Fellows are licensed experts who review and sign the technical, financial and legal parts of strategy1's work, paid per review. They include chartered engineers, chartered accountants and lawyers. A Fellow's rate is agreed before work starts, and a Fellow signs only the sections they review, which are marked as signed in the deliverable.
Domain Fellows: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on Domain Fellows
Terms starting with E
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Engine Sprint
An Engine Sprint is a 1–3 week, fixed-fee strategy1 engagement that takes one decision to full depth through one engine. It delivers that engine's full output, such as a launch playbook or an investment thesis, with a red-team report, an evidence extract and a decision memo signed at the human gates.
Engine Sprint: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on Engine Sprint
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Evidence ledger
The evidence ledger is the record that links every number and claim in a strategy1 deliverable to its source, its date and the agent that produced it. Each entry also carries a confidence grade, and entries are chained, so any later change shows. A reader can click a figure and see where it came from.
Evidence ledger: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on Evidence and trust
Terms starting with F
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Forward Deployed Strategist
A Forward Deployed Strategist is a strategy1 strategist who works in the client's pod and frames the decision and its success metric with the client at the Sense stage. They run the engines, work on-site with the client and work with AI agents every day, deciding whether what the agents produce is good enough.
Forward Deployed Strategist: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on Forward Deployed Strategist role
Terms starting with G
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Go-to-market strategy
A go-to-market strategy is the plan for bringing a product or service to its first customers: which segment to launch to first, through which channels, with what price and message, and what success looks like by an agreed date. It turns a launch decision into a sequenced, measurable plan.
Go-to-market strategy: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on Launch / go-to-market strategy
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Governed writeback
Governed writeback is how an approved strategy1 decision reaches a client's systems. The action is staged, checked against the client's policies, approved by the named owner as a dry-run of exactly what will change, and recorded in a hash-linked audit trail. Only then is it written to the CRM, budget or campaign tool.
Governed writeback: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on Evidence and trust: governed writeback
Terms starting with H
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Human approval gates (H1, H2, H3)
The human gates are the three points in the S1 Method where a named person must sign: H1 at Model, H2 at Decide and H3 at Deploy. AI can research, model and draft between the gates, but it cannot pass one. Each signature is kept as an approval record, and work moves on only once it exists.
Human approval gates (H1, H2, H3): why it matters, with FAQsExplained on The S1 Method: human gates
Terms starting with I
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Investment thesis
An investment thesis is a short, evidence-based argument for why an investment should be made: what the opportunity is, why it will create value, what must be true for it to succeed and what would prove it wrong. Companies use one to raise capital; investors use one to decide what to back.
Investment thesis: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on Investment strategy
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IPO readiness
IPO readiness is how prepared a company is to list its shares on a stock exchange, judged across governance, financial reporting, controls, compliance, management depth and equity story. An IPO readiness assessment measures the gap between where the company is today and what a listing requires, and sets out what must change first.
IPO readiness: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on IPO / listing readiness
Terms starting with O
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Outcome-linked mandate
An outcome-linked mandate is a strategy1 engagement in which part of the fee is tied to agreed results, such as launch, savings or event KPIs. The KPIs, their baselines, targets, dates and measurement method are agreed and signed before work starts, and only the client's own system data decides the result.
Outcome-linked mandate: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on The outcome-linked mandate
Terms starting with P
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Pre-feasibility study
A pre-feasibility study is an early assessment of whether a project, such as a power plant, a factory or a real-estate development, is worth studying in full. It compares options for site, size, technology, cost and revenue at a high level, and screens out weak options before a detailed, bankable feasibility study is commissioned.
Pre-feasibility study: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on Asset / project blueprint
Terms starting with R
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Red teaming in strategy
Red teaming in strategy is the practice of having a separate team argue against a plan as a competitor, a regulator, an investor or a customer would, to find how it could fail before it is adopted. It borrows from military and security practice and ends in a written case against the plan.
Red teaming in strategy: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on The Agent Mesh: the red team
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Red-team report
A red-team report sets out the strongest arguments against a strategy and the conditions under which it fails; every strategy1 plan ships with one. Before an option reaches the Strategy Council, critics argue against it from the competitor's, regulator's, investor's and customer's side, and two judges check the result.
Red-team report: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on Evidence and trust
Terms starting with S
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S1 Method
The S1 Method is strategy1's six-stage method (Sense, Model, Simulate, Decide, Deploy, Learn), with a named person signing at three human gates. AI does the research, modelling and red-teaming at each stage, and nothing advances past a gate (H1 at Model, H2 at Decide, H3 at Deploy) without a signed approval record.
S1 Method: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on The S1 Method
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Scenario planning
Scenario planning is a method for preparing a strategy against several plausible futures rather than a single forecast. Teams describe a small set of distinct scenarios, test how their plan performs in each, and agree the early signals, or triggers, that would show which future is unfolding and when to act.
Scenario planning: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on Scenario & risk strategy
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Strategy Council
The Strategy Council is the review body that signs recommendations at the Decide gate of a strategy1 engagement and, on the retainer, reviews drift and next decisions every month. It gives feedback between runs, sees each option only after the red team has argued against it, and must approve a decision memo before it is issued.
Strategy Council: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on The S1 Method: the Decide stage
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Strategy engine
A strategy1 engine is a repeatable pod of strategists, AI agents with guardrails and a red team that produces one family of strategy deliverables. Each engine also runs calculation code strategy1 tests itself, works from the client's Strategy Twin and follows the S1 Method, so the work is done the same way every time. strategy1 has eight engines.
Strategy engine: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on The eight engines
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Strategy Readiness Scan
The Strategy Readiness Scan is strategy1's free, 30–60 minute AI diagnostic of one strategic decision. You answer six readiness questions, one for each part of the Strategy Twin, and get an AI diagnostic, one insight you did not have, and a suggested engine to start with. It can be self-serve or hosted.
Strategy Readiness Scan: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on Strategy Readiness Scan
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Strategy Twin
A Strategy Twin is a living model of one company's markets, competitors, capital, constraints and decisions, which AI agents reason over and people decide on. strategy1 builds and keeps one Twin for each client, separate from every other client's, and each engagement adds to it, so the model stays current as the evidence changes.
Strategy Twin: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on The Strategy Twin
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Strategy Twin retainer
The Strategy Twin retainer is strategy1's annual engagement that keeps a client's strategy current. It includes a living Strategy Twin, a monthly Strategy Council that reviews drift and next decisions, and engine credits for new work as questions arise, so the plan is updated when the evidence changes.
Strategy Twin retainer: why it matters, with FAQsExplained on The Strategy Twin retainer
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