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Memory Drift

MEMORY DRIFT — IC meeting in January, partner at whiteboard with high-confidence revenue claim. Fourteen months later: 'How are we tracking against the underwrite?' Analyst: 'Let me dig up the memo.' Partner, deadpan: 'The memo isn't the problem. The problem is what came after.'

Decisions don't fail. Memory fails.

The IC memo is rigorous on day one. Twelve months in, the question 'how are we tracking against the underwrite?' becomes a forensic project. The original thesis was a system. Now it's institutional memory.

This is what decision continuity prevents — not by writing the memo for you, but by keeping the memo testable.

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Don't trust the dashboard. Trace the numbers yourself.

Three downloadable deal packs across the lifecycle. Every KPI cites its source cell. Open kpis.csv, follow the citation, the number matches.

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