Your commitments keep falling apart
Strategic plans get announced with fanfare but dissolve within months. Commitments that seemed binding evaporate when the leader who made them leaves. Nothing sticks. This isn't weak leadership—it's missing enforcement architecture.
The outcome we're working toward:
Commitments that survive leadership changes—bound by structure, not goodwill.
You're experiencing this if:
These aren't failures of intention—they're symptoms of missing enforcement primitives.
The Diagnosis
Commitments without enforcement architecture are just announcements.
For a commitment to persist, it needs five primitives: binding (what makes it obligatory), persistence (what makes it survive leadership change), verification (what makes compliance observable), enforcement (what makes violation costly), and non-bypassability (what prevents workarounds).
Most institutional commitments have one or two of these at best. Without all five, strategic commitments dissolve into operational noise—not because people are dishonest, but because the architecture permits dissolution.
The Framework
What we've developed and want to test.
Commitment Enforcement Framework
A structural framework built on five enforcement primitives: binding, persistence, verification, enforcement, and non-bypassability. It audits existing commitments for which primitives are missing and designs mechanisms to close the gaps—making commitments structurally binding rather than merely rhetorical.
Status: Framework developed. Seeking pilot implementations to test and refine.
What piloting involves
- Auditing your existing commitment architecture
- Identifying which commitments lack binding, persistence, or verification
- Designing enforcement mechanisms that survive leadership change
- Testing the framework on a real strategic commitment
What we need from you
- An organization with commitments that keep dissolving
- Leadership commitment to the pilot process (3-6 months)
- Access to historical commitments and their outcomes
- Honest feedback on what works and what doesn't
Good pilot candidates
The Research Behind This
Working papers that develop these ideas in depth.
Interested in piloting?
If your organization has commitments that keep dissolving despite good intentions, we'd like to talk. No fees for pilots—just commitment and honest feedback.
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