This document brings together the key public pages and engagement terms in one place, in a form that can be printed as a single pack.

Bespoke independent decision reviews

You receive a structured written Independent Decision Review (IDR) of how decisions are made inside your organisation.

This is a bounded, written external review designed to help organisations understand how decisions are made — and where risk or uncertainty may be accumulating. It is intended to strengthen decision confidence under complexity.

The work focuses on judgement: how choices are framed, how uncertainty and risk are handled, and how patterns of decision-making shape outcomes over time. It is intended for situations where complexity, pressure, or consequence make simple answers or additional process unhelpful.

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Context

This kind of work is already familiar in many organisations. Companies of all sizes routinely commission governance, risk, and decision-making reviews—often through major professional services firms. Here, you are offered a smaller, more bounded alternative that retains seriousness and independence without assuming scale or theatre.

What this is — and is not

The review is interpretive rather than prescriptive. You are not given instructions, certifications, or assurances. Instead, you receive a clear, independent view of what appears to be working well, where decision risk may be accumulating, and what may be worth closer attention.

How it helps

Engagement begins with a paid Discovery Review and Report — a self-contained piece of work that allows you to test whether the approach is useful before deciding whether anything further is needed. Where further analysis would be helpful, focused or fuller review options are available, shaped by the questions that matter most to you.

Examples

Examples of the kinds of issues a review may raise for further consideration include:

• Where important decisions are actually being made (formally and informally), and whether that is visible to the right people.
• How disagreement and dissent are handled under time pressure, and whether apparent consensus masks unresolved uncertainty.
• Whether decision criteria remain stable over time or shift in response to urgency, personalities, or external scrutiny.
• What kinds of risks are treated as background noise, and whether that noise is increasing without being noticed.
• How accountability works in practice: where responsibility is clear, shared, or quietly becomes diffuse.
• How past failures and near-misses are remembered, learned from, or avoided.
• How information is filtered as it moves upward, and what senior decision-makers are systematically not being shown.

Throughout, decisions remain yours. The purpose of the work is to support confidence in how you are deciding, not to replace leadership judgement. This work is typically commissioned by leaders, trustees, or senior teams who want an independent view without taking on a consultancy programme.

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Designed around you

The process is intentionally asynchronous and low-interruption. You engage with the work in your own time, responding when it suits you rather than around fixed meetings or schedules. This is designed to fit around how you actually work, not how consultants typically operate.

Scope and commissioning are confirmed in writing. Engagement terms can be read here →

Written, not conversational

The review process is designed so that questions and answers are handled in writing. This is intentional: it ensures that both sides can respond carefully, check what has been said, and reduce loss of meaning or accuracy that can occur in live conversation.

Where useful, a brief face-to-face meeting can be arranged purely to introduce ourselves and “put a face to the name”. This is not used for substantive questioning or decision analysis. Because the reviewer also has commitments as a primary school teacher, availability for in-person meetings is limited and will need to fit around existing responsibilities. If travel is required, reasonable travel costs may be invoiced to the client.

Discovery Review and Report

Engagement begins with a short Discovery stage. This is a focused piece of paid work intended to test whether the approach is useful for you before anything larger is commissioned. Discovery results in a concise written memo setting out initial observations and whether further analysis may be helpful.

Discovery involves a small number of structured questions designed to surface how decisions are made in practice. You answer these in your own time and can provide responses in stages rather than all at once.

Where useful, brief follow-up questions may be asked to clarify context or resolve ambiguity.

As part of Discovery, a set of focus questions is proposed for further analysis. These are framed as areas of inquiry rather than conclusions, and are intended to help you decide what would be most useful to explore next.

Focussed Review and Report

Where a targeted piece of analysis would be helpful, a Focussed Review and Report is available. This addresses a defined subset of the focus questions identified during Discovery, chosen by you.

The scope of a Focussed Review and Report is deliberately limited and agreed in advance. It is intended to provide depth in a specific area without requiring a full review of the organisation.

Full Review and Report

Where further analysis would be helpful, a Full Review and Report is available. The Full Review and Report builds on Discovery and addresses a broader, adapted question set informed by the focus identified during Discovery.

Scope, inputs, timescales, and deliverables are defined in advance and set out in an engagement letter. Work does not proceed without this agreement.

Inputs and information

To protect intended accuracy against change, Discovery-stage inputs and related quotes are time-bound: responses are requested within 3 calendar weeks.

Inputs are structured and proportionate. The focus is on information that helps illuminate judgement and decision-making conditions rather than exhaustive documentation. Please do not send names, HR data, medical data, or other identifiable personal information.

Interpretation and limits

The work is interpretive rather than prescriptive. It is not an audit, investigation, or assurance exercise, and it does not replace governance, legal, or compliance functions.

Clarification and close

A post-report clarification stage is included following delivery of a focused or Full Review and Report. This allows questions to be asked and answered to support understanding and thoughtful application of the analysis.

Any further exploration or follow-on work, if appropriate, is treated as a separately scoped engagement.

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Pricing is deliberately simple and proportionate.

The aim of the pricing structure is to make this type of analysis accessible, while preserving the time and care required to do the work properly. Pricing reflects scope and organisational complexity rather than outcomes, and is designed to support thoughtful engagement rather than iterative consultancy.

Pricing overview

Further services are optional. This is not upselling: you may choose no further services.

How pricing works:

All prepaid services aim to deliver within 5 working days once all required inputs are received.

Discovery Review and Report

The Discovery Review and Report is commissioned only once both sides agree it would be useful. There is no charge for initial contact or discussion. Discovery is a paid piece of work, with payment due once the report has been accepted by the client.

Where a focused or Full Review and Report is subsequently commissioned, the cost of the Discovery Review and Report is credited against the report fee.

Engagement terms (commissioning, fees, confidentiality, escalation) can be read here →

Focussed Review and Report

Focussed Review and Reports are quoted within the price ranges shown once a specific focus question has been agreed. Pricing reflects the nature and complexity of the question being explored and is confirmed in advance, before any commitment is made.

Full Review and Report

Full Review and Reports are paid in advance, with scope, inputs, timescales, and deliverables confirmed and set out in an engagement letter before work begins.

Clarification and follow-up

A post-report clarification stage is included following delivery of a focused or Full Review and Report. Any further exploration or follow-on work, where appropriate, is treated as a separately scoped engagement.

All prices are exclusive of VAT. VAT is charged where applicable.

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This work exists to support better judgement

The immediate purpose of each review is to help you understand how decisions are being made in practice, where confidence is well-placed, and where risk or uncertainty may be accumulating unnoticed. The aim is not to prescribe action, but to strengthen the conditions in which good decisions can be made and sustained over time.

Supporting the community

Beyond individual engagements, Orion Constellation Enterprises Ltd is structured with a longer horizon in mind. The business exists to enable meaningful, lawful employment and to generate income that can be directed toward charitable and community projects. This is not an operational focus of the work itself, and it does not shape the analysis or its conclusions, but it is an intentional feature of how the company is organised.

At this early stage, community support is directed first toward providing much-needed funding for the school in which I teach and the children learning there: West Park C of E Primary School (Goring-by-Sea). If this work proves successful, the intended outcome is to extend support to a wider range of charitable and community projects over time.

Implication for our clients

In practical terms, this means the work is designed to be:

• proportionate rather than extractive,
• careful rather than expansive,
• independent rather than aligned to follow-on consultancy.

You are engaging a piece of analysis, not entering a relationship that depends on continuation. The value lies in the clarity it brings, not in the volume of work that follows.

The end served here is confidence: confidence that decisions are being made with appropriate care, awareness, and responsibility — and that the resources committed to understanding those decisions are used thoughtfully, without excess.

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This work depends on clarity and trust. Boundaries are explicit; process is documented; scope is confirmed in writing; and supporting information is published so it can be read in advance.

Boundaries and scope

We set clear limits on what this work is and is not. This avoids false expectations, protects judgement, and ensures scope and responsibility remain properly understood.
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Documents and policies

Key documents are published so they can be read in advance and relied on without ambiguity.
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Engagement terms

Engagement terms describe how work is commissioned and how scope, fees, confidentiality, and escalation are handled. They exist to protect clarity on both sides and to ensure scope is confirmed in writing.
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About

This work is not anonymous. The about page explains who does the work, the stance it is written from, and the limits of what can be claimed.
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Legal and privacy

Legal and privacy information can be read here.

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Send a message → (through the online form)

The most effective way to get in touch is through the contact form on this website.

Using the form allows you to outline your enquiry in your own time and ensures messages are directed appropriately. There is no obligation attached to making contact, and no charge for initial discussion.

If your enquiry relates to a potential Discovery, Focussed Review and Report, or Full Review and Report, a short description of your organisation and what prompted the enquiry is usually sufficient at this stage.

Formal or regulatory correspondence should be sent to the address provided for that purpose - regulatorsandcompliance@orion-c.co.uk.

Please note that unsolicited marketing messages and postal mail are not monitored.

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Who is doing the work?

I write these reviews as a practitioner, not as a consultant operating within a large firm or a regulated advisory profession.

My professional background is in education, where I have worked as a primary school teacher (holding Qualified Teacher Status) and I have held middle and senior leadership roles in high-accountability environments. This work involved making and supporting decisions under constraint: limited resources, safeguarding responsibilities, external scrutiny, and the long-term consequences of everyday judgement calls.

Over time, this led to a sustained interest in how decisions are actually made inside organisations — not how they are described in policy or process documents, but how judgement operates in practice when time, risk, responsibility, and uncertainty collide.

 
 

The impact of produced reviews

The approach used in these reviews has been shaped by that experience. It values clarity over certainty, restraint over expansion, and independence over alignment. The focus is on recognising patterns, trade-offs, and decision environments rather than prescribing actions or offering assurance.

I do not hold myself out as a lawyer, auditor, regulator, or professional adviser, and this work is not intended to replace specialist advice where that is required. It exists to provide a thoughtful, independent perspective that can support confidence in decision-making where complexity makes simple answers unhelpful.

The work is deliberately written, bounded, and asynchronous. It is designed to fit around the realities of leadership and organisational life, rather than asking you to adapt to consultancy-driven models of engagement.

This work has clear boundaries

The reviews provided are intended to support judgement and understanding, not to replace decision-making, governance, or professional advice. They offer an independent perspective on how decisions appear to be made in practice and where risk or uncertainty may be accumulating.

The work does not constitute:

• legal advice,
• financial or investment advice,
• audit or assurance activity,
• regulatory compliance assessment, or
• investigation of individuals or incidents.

No opinions are offered on the legality, probity, or correctness of specific past decisions. The focus is on patterns, conditions, and decision environments rather than outcomes or fault.

What can this process do for clients

Reviews are based on the information you choose to provide and on reasonable interpretation of that material. They are not exhaustive and should not be treated as definitive statements of fact. Any conclusions are necessarily limited by the scope agreed and the information available at the time.

The work is written for your internal use. While you may choose to share it, responsibility for how it is interpreted or relied upon by others rests with you.

These boundaries exist to preserve clarity, independence, and usefulness. They ensure the work remains proportionate, honest about its limits, and focused on supporting better judgement rather than creating false certainty.

Some information may be processed using automated computation to support the review process. The reviewer remains responsible for the report.

This website is operated by ORION Constellation Enterprises Ltd.

The information provided on this website is for general information purposes only. Nothing on this site constitutes legal, financial, investment, or professional advice, and no reliance should be placed on it as such.

Engagements for Discovery reports, focused reports, or full reports are governed by written engagement terms agreed in advance between ORION Constellation Enterprises Ltd and the client. Engagement terms can be read here →

No obligations arise from website content alone.

All content on this website, including text and structure, is the property of ORION Constellation Enterprises Ltd unless otherwise stated. You may not reproduce, distribute, or reuse material from this site without permission.

ORION Constellation Enterprises Ltd accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising from use of this website or from reliance on information contained within it, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Privacy notice

This website does not use cookies or tracking technologies.

Personal data is collected only where you choose to provide it, primarily through the website contact form. The information you submit is used solely for the purpose of responding to your enquiry and managing any subsequent engagement.

The data collected may include your name, contact details, and any information you choose to include in your message. No unnecessary personal data should be submitted.

Personal data is not shared with third parties unless required by law or necessary to fulfil a contractual obligation arising from an agreed engagement.

Data is retained only for as long as necessary to respond to your enquiry and to meet legal or accounting obligations where applicable.

You have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data. Requests can be made using the contact form on this website.

If you have concerns about how your data is handled, you have the right to raise a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Registered company details

• Registered company name: ORION Constellation Enterprises Ltd
• Director: Andrew JF Clarke BA(Hons) QTS
• Registered in England and Wales
• Company Registration Number:
• Registered E-mail: regulatorsandcompliance@orion-c.co.uk (contact form here)
• Registered office: ORION Constellation Enterprises Ltd, 61 Bridge Street, Kington, HR5 3DJ (unsolicited marketing messages and postal mail are not monitored)
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These are the full terms and conditions that apply to all ORION Constellation Enterprises Ltd’s services and products.

ORION Constellation Enterprises Ltd - Engagement Terms

1. Purpose and nature of the service

ORION Constellation Enterprises Ltd (“ORION”, “ORION Reviews”, “we”, “us”) provides structured review and analysis services intended to support organisational thought and decision-making.

Our work is: · interpretive and analytical; · non-prescriptive; · provided for the benefit of the Client’s own judgement.

Important: We do not provide legal, financial, medical, or other regulated professional advice. Where such advice is required, the Client should obtain it from an appropriately qualified professional.

2. Contract formation and acceptance

These Engagement Terms apply to all services supplied by ORION Constellation Enterprises Ltd.

A contract is formed when: 1. the Client submits responses to ORION’s questions together with the required acceptance confirmation (see below); and 2. ORION confirms acceptance of the engagement, or provides the relevant deliverable.

Acceptance confirmation (required) I confirm that I have read and accept the Terms & Conditions in force on the date below at: orion-c.co.uk/t&c/

To proceed, the Client must supply: · their name; · their role/title in the organisation; · their organisation name; and · the date of acceptance.

This constitutes acknowledgement that the Client accepts the Terms & Conditions in force on that date at: orion-c.co.uk/t&c/

3. Client eligibility and authority

The Client confirms that the person completing the intake questions is authorised to: · provide information to ORION; and · bind the Client to these Engagement Terms.

4. Confidentiality and handling of information

ORION will treat Client-supplied information as confidential unless:
· disclosure is required by law;
· disclosure is necessary to perform the engagement (e.g., payment processing or agreed subcontracting); or
· the Client has explicitly authorised disclosure.

Client instruction: Please do not provide personal data unless strictly necessary. Where individuals must be referenced, use role/title rather than names wherever possible.

If personal data is included, the Client confirms they have authority to disclose it to ORION for the purposes of this engagement.

5. Time sensitivity and accuracy

ORION’s work is time-sensitive: organisational conditions may change quickly.

Accordingly: · Discovery-stage inputs and quotes are time-bound. The Client is asked to respond within 3 calendar weeks to protect intended accuracy against change. · Where inputs are provided outside this window, ORION may:

• proceed using the available information; and/or
• request reconfirmation and updates.

6. Stages of engagement and deliverables

6.1 Outreach (pre-engagement) Any outreach communications are informational only and do not create an obligation to purchase services.

6.2 Engagement intake (questions)

ORION may request structured written responses including: · Part A — Standard Discovery Questions · Part B — Standard Full Questions (recommended, optional unless later commissioned)

ORION may, once per engagement stage, request a single set of clarification questions to ensure internal consistency and avoid avoidable error.

6.3 Discovery Report

ORION provides a Discovery Report based on information supplied by the Client.

The Discovery Report: · may include options for further services; · may indicate where further work is unlikely to be valuable.

Further services are optional. This is not upselling. The Client is free to choose no further services.

6.4 Focused Report (optional, prepaid)

A Focused Report addresses one defined question area and is supported by: · Part D — Bespoke Focused Questions

6.5 Full Report (optional, prepaid)

A Full Report is broader and more detailed and is supported by: · Part C — Bespoke Full Questions

6.6 Part E — Reconfirmation / update questions (as needed)

Where time has elapsed or circumstances have likely changed, ORION may issue Part E questions to preserve intended accuracy.

7. Delivery timelines

Discovery Discovery-stage responses should be provided within 3 calendar weeks.

Prepaid services (Focused / Full / other) For prepaid services: · ORION aims to deliver within 5 working days (typically within 1 calendar week) after all required inputs have been received in complete form. If this is not possible due to unavoidable unavailability (e.g., illness), the Client will be informed at the earliest opportunity.

8. Clarification (included once per report)

Where a report includes a clarification allowance, the Client may provide a set of clarification questions.

All questions will be processed into a single Clarification Report as one deliverable.

Clarification: · addresses questions within scope where possible; · identifies where questions cannot be answered and why (out of scope, insufficient information, specialist domain, etc.); · may include quotes for additional work where appropriate.

9. Fees, invoicing, and payment

Discovery Report pricing ORION may provide a Discovery Report with a fixed price which becomes payable only if accepted by the Client. · If accepted: the Discovery fee is payable and may be credited against a subsequent commissioned report (if stated in the quote/invoice). · If not accepted: the Client may decline at no cost; ORION may invite optional remuneration at the Client’s discretion.

Prepaid services All Focused Reports, Full Reports and Clarification Reports are prepaid, unless explicitly agreed otherwise in writing.

The first Clarification Report (where offered as part of a report package) is included; any additional Clarification Reports are prepaid.

10. Refunds and non-response If the Client commissions a prepaid service but does not provide required inputs within the applicable timeframe: · ORION may offer, at ORION’s discretion:

• reconfirmation/update questions (Part E); or
• a completed report accurate to the information that is received; or
• where appropriate, a partial refund (e.g., 50%) if ORION is unable to proceed.

11. Client responsibilities

The Client is responsible for: · completeness and accuracy of information provided; · deciding what actions to take (or not take) based on ORION’s work.

12. Limitations of liability (B2B)

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for: · death or personal injury caused by negligence; · fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or · any liability that cannot be excluded by law.

Subject to the above, ORION’s reports are decision-support services and ORION will not be liable for: · indirect or consequential losses; · loss of profit, revenue, goodwill, or anticipated savings; · outcomes arising from decisions made by the Client.

Any limitation of liability applies only insofar as it is permitted and reasonable under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 (UCTA).

13. Data protection and privacy

ORION will handle personal data in accordance with its Privacy Notice.

Privacy information is available at: orion-c.co.uk/legal/

Where automated computation tools are used to support the review process, ORION remains responsible for the work product.

14. Governing law

These Engagement Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction (unless otherwise agreed in writing).