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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