R4-05 Economy of force audits

Supports slide 23.

“Concentrate on the anchor” isn’t a slogan. I run an economy of force audit: one of five leadership commitments I set on 8 April 2026. Each run scores how concentrated the company is and names what to cut.

The audit history

Date	Force concentration score	What it found
15 Apr 2026	3.8 / 5 (baseline)	Cuts recommended: shelve DeepFeedback.ai; give RegGenome an April 30 deadline; delegate AssuredBook to Jody; content and marketing at 4 blocks a week.
15 May 2026	3.2 / 5 (down 0.6)	Wins: STIGViewer free plan and friction-free signup; RegGenome closed 29 Apr; Edify closed 11 May. But new work was stacked on without cuts.

The score went down, not up. That’s the honest reading: I was good at recommending cuts and slow at ratifying them. The May audit says so in plain words: the system “can recommend but not yet ratify.”

Cuts the audits kept flagging

• DeepFeedback.ai formal shelving. Recommended 15 Apr, still open 15 May.
• Content and marketing under 10% of my time. Flagged on every kanban from 17 Apr to 15 May.
• Skills-audit milestones not tracked. The founder-run Apollo sequences from the Module 5 canvas weren’t run.

How it scores

Five dimensions, each 1 to 5: revenue, engineering, CEO attention, team alignment, strategic clarity. The overall score is the average.

Not yet evidenced: a Q3 2026 audit run. The record I have ends at the 15 May re-audit.

Sources:

• Economy of force audit history, project memory (project_economy_of_force_audit.md), covering the audit files Q2-2026-Economy-of-Force-Audit.md (15 Apr) and Q2-2026-Economy-of-Force-Audit-2026-05-15.md