Advisory Services

Every organization has an incentive architecture — whether or not anyone intentionally designed it. You've now read cases of this pattern producing the wrong outcome inside banks, government programs, sports leagues, and public companies. If one of them named something you recognized in your own organization, that recognition is data, not a verdict.

The Incentive Architecture Audit

BFR's diagnostic tool is a structured, evidence-based examination — twelve questions across seven diagnostic areas. The four-question lens in this newsletter provided its starting logic, but the Audit is a different undertaking: it examines one organization's own records, not a public case already told.

It is not a survey or a self-assessment — every answer requires evidence: actual compensation structures, promotion decisions, named examples from the past twelve months. Where evidence doesn't exist, that absence is itself a finding, weighted equally with what is present.

The Audit is the engagement's actual deliverable — not a precursor to one. Findings are delivered as a formal written report identifying exactly where your organization's declared strategy and its actual reward structure diverge, and what that divergence is producing.

Who this is for

Executives with the authority to act on what the Audit finds — C-suite, EVP, VP, or equivalent, or someone writing on their behalf. This works best for a specific, presenting problem, not a request for a proposal before any conversation has happened.

How it starts

A Discovery Call. Free. No pitch, no fee discussion, no deliverables described in detail. Its only purpose is to determine whether a diagnostic engagement is the right next step for your situation — and if it isn't, that's a legitimate outcome too.

For the reasoning behind this framework, see the About page.

Wayne Repich · wayne@waynerepich.com · (510) 381-9087