Risk review

Most systems that produce an analysis have nobody whose job is to disagree with it. The risk mandate reads the desk — the theses the other cards returned — and holds a veto on adoption. Its remit is declared limits, desk concentration, and that veto.

#A refusal is a result

When a question cannot be answered at the as-of date with admissible sources, the mandate deposits a blocked artefact rather than approximating. It carries what was attempted and why it stopped; the contract refuses to deposit it otherwise. That is the most honest answer available, and often the most useful.

EvidenceThe tool that reports a block requires no capability at all — every mandate must be able to say it cannot answer. Refusing is not a privilege.

#What the risk mandate can and cannot reach

• AVAILABLEReading what the other cards concludedThe desk capability, declared by the risk mandate. It is the raw material of a review.
• PLANNEDReaching the open web to check a claimNot for this mandate, and not by oversight: a role that reads the desk cannot reach outward. Checking an external claim is the news mandate’s job, and it holds nothing else.
• PLANNEDA sealed replay of this mandate at workSix of the fourteen mandates have no sealed capture, and this is one of them. Its page shows the mandate and the tools; nothing is shown in place of a run that did not happen.