Can your decisions withstand scrutiny?
A concise, evidence-based checklist for boards and executives — 24 questions across six areas, drawn from the framework in Built to Be Examined. Work through it against a real matter your organisation handled in the last twelve months. Any question you cannot answer from the file is the answer.
What the checklist covers
Each area carries four checks you can evidence today, plus the red flag that most often shows up when the ground has not been laid.
- 01
Decision ownership
Who decides what, on what authority, and where that is recorded at the time.
- 02
Intake and triage
One consistent way concerns enter the organisation, assessed against a written threshold.
- 03
Records made as the work happens
Contemporaneous records that survive retrieval years later, with amendments tracked.
- 04
Evidence preservation
What counts as evidence here, who secures it, and from what moment.
- 05
Reasoning made visible
Why the chosen course was chosen, including the options that were rejected.
- 06
Independent examinability
Whether an outsider could reconstruct the decision from the file alone.
The checklist is a companion to Built to Be Examined, Daniel Baulch's guide to building decisions, records and systems that withstand scrutiny.
Six sections. Twenty-four questions. No score.
Five pages you can take into a board meeting. Work through it against a matter that is already finished — the cost of laying the ground is lowest before the next one starts.
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