The Audit
Find the gap before Washington does.
A review of how your policy, communications and legal teams work together, and a roadmap for the operation you need before your next fight.
What you get
Your scores are built on the Five Fires, the diagnostic Forward Strategies uses to read a live policy fight, and you keep the annotated system.
A misalignment map.
Where your policy, comms and legal teams are pulling in different directions, and who decides when they disagree.
An exposure read.
The specific fights headed your way in Congress and at the agencies, and how ready you are for each one.
An integration roadmap.
The operating rhythm, tiger team and decision rights that make the function move as one instead of in pieces.
Board-ready budget language.
The case, in numbers, that gets the plan funded.
Is this you?
The Audit is built for companies where at least one of these is true:
- A policy fight is live or on the calendar, and your functions aren't moving together
- Your regulatory exposure is growing faster than your public affairs team
- AI is spreading across your departments with no one owning the governance story
- You're hiring a senior government relations leader and want the structure ready before they start
- You've lost a policy or communications fight you should have won
How it works
- 01.
Apply.
Ten minutes. Tell us a little about your company and what you see coming.
- 02.
Scoping call.
If it's a fit, we book 30 minutes to agree on scope.
- 03.
The Audit.
A few hours of your team's time and several weeks of the firm's. One fixed fee, set on the scoping call.
If it isn't a fit, you'll hear that directly, with a pointer somewhere better.