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Durable, decision-useful writing on executive leadership, founder governance, capital assets, enterprise risk, and healthcare intelligence. Public, crawlable, and built for diligence.

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Founder Control & Governance

Founder-first thinking on leverage, optionality, governance maturity, and board dynamics.

Capital Assets & Allocation

Capital stewardship, asset quality, and allocation discipline that compounds value across cycles.

Enterprise Risk & EBITDA Defense

Hidden risk, margin defense, diligence exposure, and the governance systems that prevent surprises.

Healthcare & Benefits Intelligence (Kincaid IQ)

Evidence-first healthcare intelligence: transparency, governance, and CFO-grade accountability.

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Capital discipline, allocation, and asset stewardship for founders and boards.

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How founders preserve leverage, optionality, and control under scrutiny.

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Capital Assets & Allocation

The Capital Stack Is a Strategy Document

Debt, equity, and covenants are governance—whether you admit it or not.

The capital stack is not a financing detail. It is the operating system that shapes risk tolerance, decision rights, and the speed at which your business can move without breaking.

9 min readcapital stackcapital allocationcovenants

Capital Assets & Allocation

Revenue Recognition Is a Governance Issue

Bad rev rec isn't accounting risk. It's leadership risk.

When revenue recognition is unclear, EBITDA becomes negotiable, diligence becomes painful, and valuation becomes conditional. This is governance—full stop.

10 min readrevenue recognitionEBITDA qualitygovernance

Founder Control & Governance

The Board Is a Control Surface, Not a Stage

If you treat board meetings like theater, governance will treat you like a risk.

Strong boards reduce chaos by enforcing evidence, accountability, and decision rights. Weak boards create surprises by rewarding narratives over truth.

8 min readboard governancefounder controlboard dynamics

Healthcare & Benefits Intelligence (Kincaid IQ)

Healthcare Spend Is a Capital Allocation Problem

Employers treat it like overhead. The market treats it like a liability.

Healthcare cost isn't just HR expense—it is capital leakage that weakens margins, compresses enterprise value, and increases operating risk. Treat it like capital allocation.

10 min readhealthcare costemployer benefitscapital allocation

Capital Assets & Allocation

Capital Allocation Is a Moral Choice for CEOs

Budgets reveal values faster than mission statements.

Capital allocation is not a technical exercise—it is the clearest, most measurable expression of executive values, governance discipline, and leadership integrity under pressure.

9 min readcapital allocationcapital disciplineenterprise value

Enterprise Risk & EBITDA Defense

Poor Governance Destroys EBITDA Long Before It Appears in Financials

Risk compounds quietly until valuation corrects violently.

Enterprise risk rarely announces itself. Governance failures quietly erode EBITDA quality, trust, and valuation long before financial statements show distress.

9 min readenterprise riskEBITDA defensegovernance

Founder Control & Governance

Founder Control Is Lost Quietly—Long Before It's Lost Publicly

Control erodes through governance gaps, not dramatic confrontations.

Founders rarely lose control in a single moment. They lose it gradually through weak governance, optimistic narratives, and delayed truth—until leverage has already shifted.

8 min readfounder controlgovernancedilution

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