Will the evidence survive reconstruction?
Issue a defensible IC decision when the evidence chain breaks.
You sit on the Investment Committee. A project claims strong ecosystem performance — but the logs are incomplete, timestamps drift, and several records cannot be independently rebuilt. Some numbers look solid — until you ask whether the chain can be reconstructed.
Decide what survives, what must be validated, and what cannot be taken to the IC at all.
You are serving on the Investment Committee for a programme that allocates capital into ecosystem-linked performance. Your responsibility is to determine whether the evidence presented can survive reconstruction and therefore be taken forward as part of a defensible IC decision.
Your mandate is not to judge the quality of the project, the credibility of the actors, or the desirability of the outcomes. It is to determine what survives reconstruction, what requires validation, and what cannot be used.
If the chain cannot be rebuilt, the claim cannot be taken to the IC — regardless of how strong the indicator appears. Your decision must be defensible under audit.
The reconstruction problem
Three structural failure modes determine whether evidence can be rebuilt.
Missing segments
If a segment of the chain is gone, the claim dies with it. A number without its upstream record is not evidence — it is an orphan.
Timestamp & sequence
When logs drift, the chain becomes non-deterministic. If two systems disagree on order, the reconstruction collapses.
Single-point dependency
If one actor controls the only copy of a record, the chain is fragile. Fragile chains do not survive audit.
Run solo or as a committee that votes. Set up the session, read the mandate (3 min), classify the evidence pack (10 min), debate & vote (10–15 min, optionally on the clock), then trigger the Audit Reveal. ~20–40 min. No sustainability knowledge required — this is about institutional risk.
Built on the Terra Vita evidence discipline: attribution · reconstruction · governance.
Convene the committee
Choose how the room decides, set the clock, then open the reconstruction file.
A visible countdown runs through the evidence & decision phases — decisions under time pressure.
Classify all 10 records
Issue the committee's decision
One decision, on the record. The audit will test it against what the evidence can actually support after reconstruction.
Approve
Finance as presented, at the proposed pricing and risk rating. The performance claims are taken at face value.
Approve with conditions
Finance contingent on reconstruction and independent validation of named records before drawdown; orphaned claims excluded from the case.
Defer
Send back. No financeable case until the broken chains are rebuilt and the file is re-presented.
Reject
Decline. The reconstruction risk is not financeable on any reasonable terms.
The chain, tested under reconstruction
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—Record-by-record findings
The debrief question that turns the game into governance training. Captured in the minutes.
Breakout groups, side by side
The teaching moment is the spread: the same broken chain, different calls, different audit fates. Add this device's group, or paste a group code exported from another room.