Horizon
The Long-Term Plan Protection Programme
You have a big plan. But does your plan have what it needs to survive contact with reality?
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Most ambitious businesses have thought hard about where they're going. Far fewer have looked hard at what could stop them getting there - legally, structurally, from a compliance angle - before it's too late to do anything about it.
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That's what 'Horizon' - our legal readiness programme for growing businesses - is for.
What you get out of it
Confidence that your business has everything it needs — legally and from a compliance perspective — to land the plan. A clear, prioritised action plan that tells you exactly what needs to happen, in what order, with what resources: and what the consequences are of not acting. Definitely not just a list of risks to worry about.
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By the end of Horizon, you will have:
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A deep, honest assessment of everything that could legally or structurally undermine your plan, seen from angles your team is too close to see
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A prioritised legal action list: what gets done, in what order, with what resources, and what gets parked and why
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A clear picture of the legal and compliance infrastructure your business needs to hit its goals. Stuff like the processes, resources and mechanics needed to get on top of your legal matters and stay there
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Direct access to a senior strategic legal mind throughout, so nothing that comes up during the programme derails the work
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And something harder to quantify but just as valuable: the confidence to keep pushing forward, knowing someone has helped you look around the corners.
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One thing worth saying clearly: the goal of Horizon isn't to frighten you with everything that could go wrong. It's to give you a clear, honest picture of what actually matters, and a prioritised, manageable plan for dealing with it. Most businesses come out of Horizon feeling more confident than when they went in, not less.
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Because clarity, even about difficult things, is always better than uncertainty.
How it works
Horizon follows a structured process, built around your specific plan and your specific business.
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It starts where everything should start: with a deep dive into what your business is really trying to achieve. Its purpose, its plan, its ambition, its culture. Because legal and compliance thinking that isn't anchored to the plan isn't strategic thinking: it's just legal admin with better intentions.
From there, we bring your Exec and Board together for a structured horizon scanning session using our Radar methodology. This isn't a traditional risk review. No spreadsheets, no likelihood scores, no risk registers. Instead, this involves a carefully crafted set of questions that make your leadership team look at the business from completely different angles, and surface the threats that conventional risk processes miss. The output is four threat heatmaps covering reputational, strategic, operational and financial threats, along with a set of key questions to inform everything that follows.
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That intelligence feeds directly into the most important step: a rigorous, independent diagnosis of exactly what your business needs from a legal and compliance perspective to hit the plan. Not a list of everything that could theoretically go wrong. A clear-eyed assessment of what actually matters, what the consequences are of not addressing it, and what the realistic options are given the constraints of time and money.
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That diagnosis becomes a formal legal priority list that's agreed with you and your leadership team. It sets out what gets done, in what order, with what resources. And, just as importantly, what doesn't get done, and what that means for the business. No ambiguity. No hiding behind legal complexity.
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Finally, we establish the practical infrastructure your business needs to get on top of its legal matters and stay there - the processes, resources and mechanics that mean legal stops being a reactive headache and starts being a quiet, reliable foundation for everything you're building.
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Throughout all of it, you have direct access to me whenever you need it. So the programme never gets derailed by whatever lands on your desk in the meantime.
Who it's for
Horizon is for ambitious businesses with a big long-term plan that either don't have a GC or that have reactive legal resource on hand, and who want an independent, senior pro-active perspective to make sure their plan is properly protected.
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It works particularly well when:
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A business is scaling fast and the legal and compliance picture hasn't kept pace
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A founder or CEO suspects there are legal vulnerabilities in the plan but doesn't know where to look
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A business is about to enter a new phase — new markets, new products, new partnerships — and wants to move with confidence
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A leadership team wants an honest, independent answer to the question: are we really ready for what's ahead?
If you have a GC and want them to lead this kind of thinking from the inside, our Vantage programme is probably the better fit.
The details
4-6 month programme. Worked through collaboratively with you and your leadership team. Includes Radar horizon scanning session with your Exec and Board. Direct access to Andrew throughout. Tailored to your business and your plan.
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£40,000 + VAT
For a business with serious ambitions, this is the question worth asking: what would it cost you if the plan failed because of something you could have seen coming?