The Execution Gap Diagnostic
Eight dimensions. Each measures whether an operational mechanism that converts detection into correction is present, absent, or partially built. This is not a maturity model — it does not measure aspiration or intent.
The evidence standard: score what the system does, not what the documentation says it should do. A charter that specifies authority the body does not exercise is a 2 at best.
Before you begin, gather three documents:
- Your governance body's charter
- Your last three sets of minutes
- One open finding
Designed for CFOs, compliance officers, inspectors general, and program directors — the people downstream of the governance body, not inside it. Takes about ten minutes. Runs entirely in your browser; nothing you enter is transmitted or stored.
Where your profile sits against the corpus
Figures computed from the frozen v3.0 corpus: 1,006 substantive-finding oversight report records, 3,437 tracked recommendations. Traced recurrence across the corpus runs 49 percent; the flagged repeat-finding baseline is 22.5 percent; among follow-up reviews the prior condition was confirmed 94 percent of the time. Even closed recommendations saw the underlying condition recur 58 percent of the time.
Your remediation sequence
Ordered by the corpus-derived action sequence: prerequisite conditions first, then the consequence gate, then workflow gates, then resilience. Each entry names the close-out mechanism the book specifies for that dimension.
This instrument is a structured first reading built from the corpus's coded fields; it is unvalidated by design, with validation planned against post-publication use. Corpus figures describe the coded corpus, not the universe of federal findings. Full methodology: Appendix A of the book; verification record at insidethework.com/dataset.
The diagnostic measures the current state. The Execution Standard specifies the target state. The gap between the two is the work.
Read the full framework in Designed to Detect, Not to Correct — join the launch list. To put these results in front of your leadership team, inquire about an executive briefing.