Field notes
On audit gaps, hidden fragility, and what holds.
Research and writing on the structural failures that audit and consulting miss. Several pieces include a full report you can download.
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The Hedge Fund Landscape: Why Funds Fail, and What the Metrics Miss
The hedge fund industry manages over $5 trillion, and a high share of funds do not survive five years. The failures that matter share a structure the standard risk tools are not built to see.
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The Consulting and Audit Landscape: What Organizations Pay For, and What They Get
Organizations spend over $700 billion a year on consulting and audit. The evidence on what that spending produces is troubling, and it points to a gap neither service was built to test.
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When Everything Checks Out and You Still Don't Believe It
You brought in the consultants and passed every audit, and something still feels wrong. That instinct is usually right. Why compliant organizations stay structurally fragile, and what tests the layer audit and consulting miss.
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QSIA vs. Audit and Consulting: A Different Category, Not Better Advice
Audit tests what you reported. Consulting tests what you should do. QSIA tests a third thing neither was built to reach: whether the system can hold. Why structural diagnostics is a new category, not a new brand of advice.
Includes downloadable report (PDF) ↓