The sixth risk on the register

Your board has been guessing about execution risk.
Now there's a number.

NAVETRA™ is the first governance instrument built from an operator's lens. It reads your execution environment across ten domains and expresses it as Operating Profit at Risk, a dollar figure your board, CFO, and investors can act on. A peer-reviewed research window places exposure between 10¢ and 46¢ per $1 of EBIT — validated across 14,000+ NAVETRA assessments of public and private organisations globally. Your number sits somewhere on that range. The point is knowing where.

Trusted basis: 14,000+ assessments Public & private organisations 8 sectors · Global Patent Pending
NAVETRA · Sample Board Readout
Live
Instrument
NV-OPaR v4.2
Sector benchmark
industrial
Domains read
10 / 10
Reporting period
Q1 FY26
Operating Profit at Risk · Research Window
Mankins · Sull · Kaplan · Blenko · 14,000+ NAVETRA assessments
Exposure by domain · your read 10 domains
Patent Pending Built in Canada · MMXXVI
Recognition
World AI Festival Canadian Delegate 2026 Better Workplace Conference Plenary · 2026 Canadian SME Awards Double Nominee 2025 Niagara Business Achievement Awards Triple Nominee 2026 SaaS North Stage Selected 2025 Industry Today Feature AI Review Magazine Founder Spotlight Black Advisory Hub Featured Founder
Part 01 · The Problem

Every quarter. Five different versions of the same question.

Execution risk has no committee, no standard metric, no line on the board pack. Five stakeholders are living with it anyway.

The CEO
My strategy is right. Why isn't the P&L following?
Sixty-three cents on the dollar is the average strategy realisation. Where the other 37 cents goes has never been measurable.
The Board
What's our execution exposure, in dollars?
The question has no home on the register. Until now, no instrument could answer it.
The CFO & CHRO
I can show engagement scores. I can't show margin impact.
The board wants a dollar figure for capability investment. You need a translation layer from people-signal to EBIT.
The PE Operator
Which portco has the highest execution drag?
Portfolio-level visibility into execution risk changes where capital goes and when. The ranking was guesswork before.
The Consultant
How do I prove the engagement moved the number?
A quarterly re-read surfaces the delta that defends the engagement. A measurement layer that travels alongside the work.
Part 02 · The Answer

One number. One cycle. One conversation the board can have.

01

Placement on a known range.

Operating Profit at Risk expresses your exposure as a percentage of EBIT, placed on the peer-reviewed 10–46¢ window. Board-grade, boardroom-ready, anchored in published research and validated across 14,000+ NAVETRA assessments.

Output · Position on the range
02

Ten measurable domains.

Across three pillars: Direction, Capacity, Conversion. Each domain carries its own exposure, so the board sees not just the size of the risk but where it concentrates.

Grain · Domain-level
03

A quarterly rhythm.

Probe, read, re-read. Every 90 days. Execution risk moves from "quarterly surprise" to "standing line item" with a number that travels with the business.

Cadence · 90-day cycle

Part 03 · The Evidence

1046¢
Research window · OPaR range
Peer-reviewed estimates of strategy-to-execution drag — validated across 14,000+ NAVETRA assessments of public and private organisations globally. Your number sits on the range.
Mankins · Sull · Kaplan · Blenko · NAVETRA assessments
67%
Strategies that miss
Two in three well-formulated strategies fail in execution. Rarely in formulation.
HBR · Carucci · 2017
95%
AI initiatives · no return
Nineteen of twenty enterprise AI initiatives produce no measurable financial return.
MIT NANDA · 2025
14k+
Assessments in corpus
The benchmark library behind every NAVETRA reading. Public and private organisations across 8 sectors globally, growing with every cycle.
NAVETRA™ · Patent Pending
Part 04 · The Casebook

Sixteen failures analysed through the ten domains.

Every case was a governance failure the board did not see coming. We have mapped each one through NAVETRA's ten execution domains and quantified the exposure the instrument would have surfaced. Published in full on purplewins.io.

Aerospace · US 2018–2024
Boeing
$36B
In losses · 346 lives · 32 whistleblower complaints
Read case →
Construction · UK 2018
Carillion
£7.4B
In liabilities · 450+ public contracts · liquidated
Read case →
Energy · Multi-country 2019
Weatherford
$2.1B
Impairment · 16 countries · Chapter 11
Read case →
Healthcare · US 2024
Walgreens
$5.8B
VillageMD write-down · securities suit
Read case →
Automotive · DE 2015
Volkswagen
€32B
Dieselgate · cross-functional governance failure
Read case →
Retail · Canada 2025
Hudson's Bay
355 yrs
Ended · $3.3M in cash · CCAA
Read case →
Automotive · EU/NA 2026
Stellantis
−70%
Margin erosion · pricing & inventory drag
Read case →
Consumer · US 2022
Peloton
$1.2B
Inventory write-off · capability/demand misfire
Read case →
Automotive · US 2024–2026
Ford
Recall surge
Software-led recalls · upskilling & AI readiness gap
Read case →
Conglomerate · US 2017–2021
GE
4 yrs
Of missed signals · write-down was the outcome
Read case →
Real estate tech · US 2019
WeWork
$47B → $0
Valuation collapse · governance & alignment failure
Read case →
Healthtech · US 2015–2018
Theranos
$9B → $0
Fraud · leadership alignment & risk management failure
Read case →
Imaging · US 2012
Kodak
131 yrs
Ended in bankruptcy · upskilling & AI readiness failure
Read case →
Automotive · JP 2018–2024
Nissan
Multi-year
Governance crisis · leadership alignment fracture
Read case →
Edtech · IN 2024
Byju's
$22B → ≈0
Valuation collapse · financial & execution governance
Read case →
Enterprise tech · US 2026
Oracle
−54%
Stock drop · capex vs capability misalignment
Read case →
Part 05 · In the Field

What leaders told us during the probe.

$4.2M
Exposure surfaced · single cycle

We have a risk register. Execution has never been on it. NAVETRA made it possible to put it there with a dollar figure behind it.

Board Chair Industrial Manufacturing · Mid-market · 820 employees
Quarterly
Re-read cadence · standing line item

A dollar figure for execution risk on the register was the number my operating team had been asking me to bring to the board for two years. Knowing where we sat on the peer-reviewed range was the breakthrough.

Audit & Risk Committee Chair Utilities · Cross-border · 2,400 employees
3 BUs
Cross-portfolio ranking · Q1

What I value is the cadence. Quarterly read, quarterly re-read. Execution risk becomes a governed line item, not a quarterly surprise.

Operating Partner Private Equity · North American Mid-market
Part 06 · The Rhythm

Understand. Quantify. Accompany.

A deepening read of the business. A dollar figure on execution risk. A companion across every cycle. One instrument — read through the lens each leader brings to the table.

Beat 01
Understand

An intimate read of the execution environment. Ten domains, three pillars — Direction, Capacity, Conversion — anchored in the organisation's own signals. NAVETRA comes to know the business the way a seasoned operator does.

Output · Ten-domain read of the execution environment
Beat 02
Quantify

The actuarial model turns understanding into Operating Profit at Risk. A dollar figure. The top domains driving it, named and ranked. Clear visibility for decisions in a VUCA environment — volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous — where leaders are being asked to move without a number in front of them.

Output · OPaR in $ · top-domain priorities
Beat 03
Accompany

The reading doesn't end with the first report. Quarter after quarter, NAVETRA re-reads, recalibrates, and travels with the business through every cycle. That is what makes it an instrument — a standing governance line rather than a one-time engagement.

Output · Standing companion · cycle after cycle
Part 07 · The Lens

One instrument. Three leaders. Two governance lenses.

NAVETRA produces one read of the business. Every seat at the table sees it through their own lens. Human capital investment and AI governance are treated as first-class exposures — not adjacencies.

The CEO Lens
Where is execution actually costing me?

Two or three domains, named in dollars, that should anchor the next ninety days of leadership attention. A quantified answer to the question the CEO is already carrying into every weekly operating review.

Anchor · Top-domain priority
The Board Lens
A standing line item on the register.

A dollar figure the board can govern, compare to peers, and report to the audit committee. Execution risk enters the cycle the way financial, regulatory, and cyber risk already do — with an owner, a metric, and a cadence.

Anchor · Governed line item
The CHRO Lens
Proof the audit committee will accept.

Every human capital investment — hiring, training, retention, culture, wellbeing — priced against its exposure impact. The CHRO finally has the P&L translation layer the board has been asking for, for years.

Anchor · People-to-P&L translation
Governance Lens 01

Human Capital Investment Governance

People decisions carry the largest share of execution risk in most organisations, and the smallest share of board-visible measurement. NAVETRA makes human capital investment governable as exposure — priced in dollars against EBIT, reported quarterly, defendable to the audit committee.

The question changes from "is this training worth it?" to "what is this training worth against our exposure?"

Governance Lens 02

AI Governance

Boards are being asked about AI readiness, model risk, vendor dependency, and drift — without a shared instrument to measure any of it. NAVETRA treats AI-related execution risk as one exposure inside a governed portfolio of ten domains, not a separate thread that never reaches the register.

The CFO, CHRO, and CRO finally see AI risk in the same frame as everything else they govern.

Part 08 · The Call

Thirty minutes. No pitch, no deck.

A scoping conversation with the founder. We'll walk through a redacted board readout from a comparable firm, then talk through what your first Operating Profit at Risk reading might surface. You'll leave with a clear picture of fit and a tangible next step.

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Part 09 · Frequently Asked

Before you book, the questions everyone asks.

NAVETRA is an instrument, not an engagement. It reads execution risk quarterly and produces a standing dollar figure for the board. Consulting firms bring strategy, diagnosis, and transformation expertise; NAVETRA sits alongside that work as the measurement layer — so the delta from an engagement is visible, defensible, and stays on the register between visits. Many of our strongest partnerships are with consulting firms whose clients use NAVETRA in exactly this way.
OPaR is a dollar-denominated figure expressing your organisation's execution risk as a percentage of EBIT. A peer-reviewed research window places strategy-to-execution drag between 10¢ and 46¢ per $1 of EBIT — drawing on work by Mankins, Sull, Kaplan, and Blenko, and validated across 14,000+ NAVETRA assessments of public and private organisations globally. Your number sits somewhere on that distribution. The point is knowing where.
The probe is 20 minutes with the CEO and leadership team, plus up to 19 respondents across the organisation. The board-grade PDF report lands in the CEO's inbox within 2 minutes of probe completion. Re-reads are quarterly.
Mid-market CEOs, board directors, audit and risk committee chairs, CFOs, CHROs, COOs, private equity operating partners, and management consulting firms using NAVETRA as the measurement layer for their engagements. Mostly in manufacturing, utilities, energy, and logistics at 50 to 5,000 employees per business unit.
Yes. A redacted board readout from a comparable firm is part of every scoping call. You'll see the exact format, level of detail, and language your board would receive. No obligation, no pitch.
The Free Scan is no cost, no obligation, and produces an initial OPaR figure for a single leader or small team. Enterprise engagements are scoped per business unit based on scale and cadence. Most organisations start with a scoping call to understand fit before pricing.
No employee-level data is retained. Assessment inputs are processed and discarded. A human is in the loop on every cycle. Generative and agentic AI are used for decision-making assistance only. Patent Pending with the USPTO. Built in Canada.
Thirty minutes. Five minutes on the governance gap specific to your sector. Ten on a redacted board readout from a comparable firm. Ten on what a Free Scan or Enterprise read would surface for your organisation. Five on fit and next steps. No pitch, no deck.
One conversation from a standing number

The next board pack could have the number.

Book a 30-minute scoping call or run a Free Scan. Either way, you'll leave with sharper language for the conversation your board is already trying to have.