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Blueprint · Northwind Partners · Sample
Rev 2026·05·18 · v2
§ 06 Organizational topology
Sheet § 06 · 12 sheets · Northwind Partners · Vol. I
In progress · drafted 2026·05·18

Where the firm is concentrated, and where it is thin.

Reporting structure, decision authority, and the three roles whose institutional knowledge is currently a single point of failure.

This sheet is in progress. Roles, names, and the decision-rights mapping are private to the engagement; the public sample preserves the structural finding.

The firm has eleven people on the org chart and three roles holding load-bearing context. Two of the three are partners. The third is a senior associate who, by virtue of having been the only person to attend a particular set of meetings for two years, now serves as the firm’s institutional memory on roughly 40% of active engagements. This is a structural fragility, not a personnel issue.