The Assessment is a structured investigation of your Decision Infrastructure — conducted with your leadership team and scored into a single Institutional Score. It is not a benchmark and not a survey. It is a structural read of how your organization actually makes, owns, and defends its consequential decisions. What follows are representative of the questions a complete finding resolves — not the assessment itself. The instrument that produces the Institutional Score is proprietary and principal-led.

Where your decision authority is documented — and where it is only assumed.

A clear read on which consequential decisions have owned, defensible authority behind them, and which would not survive a regulator, board, or acquirer asking who decided and on what basis.

Where institutional reasoning is retained — and where it walks out the door.

Whether the intelligence behind your consequential choices is preserved as an institutional asset, or lost when the people who hold it leave.

Where your decision-making carries structural friction.

A map of where decisions slow, stall, or reverse under organizational pressure — and the structural conditions producing those outcomes before they reach the board.

Where your exposure is concentrated — and what to stabilize first.

A single Institutional Score, the structural risks behind it, and a prioritized 90-day plan for closing the gaps that matter most.

These questions are illustrative only — representative of what a finding resolves, not the assessment itself. The full assessment, the scoring system, and the structural determinations behind your finding are proprietary to Monarc and delivered by the Principal Architect. They cannot be reproduced from a question list.

02Sample Output

This is what your
organization receives.

Scored, mapped, and delivered live — the complete deliverable set, rendered as your leadership team receives it.

Your organization

0/48

✓ Applied

Sample output · the finding is yours

Pricing confirmed at discovery

Scope confirmed at discovery

90-min debrief

Architect Decisions. Engineer Outcomes.™

03What You Receive

Five deliverables.
One architecture path.

Every Assessment produces a structured deliverable set — institutional-grade output giving leadership an unambiguous picture of where your Decision Infrastructure stands and what it costs to leave gaps open.

D-01

Institutional Score
Decision Health

Your 0–100 score with dimension breakdowns and band classification — the number your board references when evaluating your decision layer.

Includes Risk Flag assessment

D-02

Decision
Friction Map

A structural map of where decisions stall, where authority is ambiguous, and where the absence of Decision Infrastructure generates compounding risk.

Mapped to your organization

D-03

Top 5 Structural
Risks

Your five highest-priority gaps ranked by institutional exposure — regulatory, reputational, and operational — with the remediation architecture for each.

Ranked by institutional exposure

D-04

90-Day Stabilization
Plan

A sequenced stabilization plan for your most critical architecture gaps, paired with a full architecture brief — the document that replaces months of internal planning.

Scoped per engagement

All five deliverables delivered in a 90-minute live debrief with the Principal Architect.

01

Output: Scored Assessment Set

The Assessment

The Monarc Principal Architect conducts a structured assessment session with your leadership team. No preparation required — the assessment is designed to surface what is there, not what has been prepared.

02

Output: Institutional Score · Friction Map · Risk Report

The Analysis

Responses are scored against the institutional framework. The structural risk evaluation system assesses signals throughout. The Decision Friction Map is built from the structural data before the debrief.

03

Output: 90-Day Plan · Architecture Brief · Next Steps

The Debrief

A 90-minute structured debrief delivers your Institutional Score, walks through the Decision Friction Map and Top 5 Risk Report, and presents your 90-day stabilization plan and architecture brief. Every finding explained. Next steps confirmed.

Engagement scope defined per client during discovery · No template engagements

04The Process

Three steps.
One clear
verdict.

The Assessment protocol is built for executives who cannot afford months on an internal assessment that produces a findings memo no one acts on. Every step produces a specific output. No discovery sprints. No alignment workshops. No deliverable drift.

What you receive at the end is a complete assessment — not a starting point for a longer conversation. The architecture brief inside every Assessment is the bridge from assessment to action.

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The Forcing Function

The architecture gap just
became a legal obligation.

On December 2, 2026, the enforcement mechanism becomes explicit and the penalties become quantified. For organizations deploying AI without a documented decision authority record, the exposure is not theoretical — it is the standard already applied in analog precedent, now extended to every AI-influenced decision.

176

Days to enforcement

EU AI Office · Dec 2, 2026

€35M

Maximum penalty, or 7% of global revenue

EU AI Act · Art. 99

72h

Window to produce a decision authority record on inquiry

Regulatory response standard

63%

Of AI-breach organizations had no governing policy

Prefactor · Mar 2026

Assess Your Exposure → Priority scheduling for organizations with active EU AI Act exposure

05The Engagement

Priced to clear the room
that approves it.

Calibrated to the approval threshold below which most regulated-industry organizations move without a formal procurement process. It does not require a board vote. It requires a decision.

$20,000

Starting price · The Assessment

Institutional Score · Decision Health (0–100)

Decision Friction Map · Mapped to your structure

Top 5 Structural Risk Report · Risk-ranked

90-Day Stabilization Plan + Architecture Brief

90-minute live debrief · Monarc Principal Architect

Credit

100% of the engagement fee is credited toward any subsequent Monarc engagement.

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CCOCLOCRO Chief AI OfficerPE-BackedEU AI Act Exposure

You are not paying for a report. You are funding the first layer of a permanent institutional system — built where the cost of the architecture gap is already accumulating.

06Begin Your Assessment

Request your Assessment.

Full Name

Email

Organization

Your Role

Annual Revenue

Employees

Primary Strategic Challenge

Add context (optional)

Delivered personally by the Monarc Principal Architect · Board-grade output standard · Response within 72 hours

Mutual NDA standard on every engagement

72h

Response Time

Every assessment request receives a response within 72 hours. Priority scheduling for organizations with active EU AI Act exposure.

90

Minute Live Debrief

The Monarc Principal Architect walks through every deliverable in a 90-minute structured session. No recorded video. No async deck. A live architectural conversation.

100%

Fee Credited Forward

The full Assessment engagement fee is credited toward any subsequent Monarc Decision Architecture engagement. The assessment is the first investment in the architecture.

NDA

Standard on Every Engagement

A mutual NDA is standard on every Monarc engagement — not an add-on or a request. All engagement materials are treated as confidential from first contact.

The Monarc Standard

Every Assessment engagement delivers the complete set — Institutional Score, Decision Friction Map, Structural Risk Report, and 90-day Stabilization Plan — walked through in a live debrief with the Monarc Principal Architect. Not a summary presentation. Not a findings memo. The full deliverable set is committed in writing in your engagement scope before work begins.

What Happens Next

Your request is in.
Here is the sequence.

MPA Response

You receive a direct response within 72 hours. Organizations with active EU AI Act exposure are prioritized for scheduling.

Within 72 hours

The Assessment

A structured assessment session with your leadership team. No preparation required — it is designed to surface what is there, not what has been rehearsed.

Structured session

The Debrief

A 90-minute live debrief delivers your Institutional Score, Friction Map, Top 5 Risk Report, and 90-day stabilization plan — rendered on screen in real time.

90-minute live debrief

Delivered personally by the Monarc Principal Architect

Institutional-grade documentation

Board-grade output standard

Mutual NDA standard on every engagement

Before you can architect AI decisions, you need to understand them.

What itreveals.

This is what yourorganization receives.

Five deliverables.One architecture path.

Three steps.One clearverdict.

The architecture gap justbecame a legal obligation.

Priced to clear the roomthat approves it.