Governance describes what should happen. Intervention proves what can happen.
An organisation can hold AI governance, risk controls, named human oversight and a documented escalation path, and still be unable to show that a consequential system could be stopped or constrained once it is running.
The immediate problem is not the policy on paper. It is the evidence that intervention can actually happen, and the gap often surfaces at the worst possible moment. There is a ten-question diagnostic that puts it to an organisation directly.
- Detect that something has gone wrong.
- Decide that it has to be stopped.
- Intervene before the harm is irreversible.
Who the Network is for.
A question like this does not travel well from a stranger. What matters is not a contact list. It is enough judgement and standing to recognise when an organisation should confront this question at all.
- Former regulators and supervisors
- Who know what a supervisor asks next, and what an unsatisfying answer sounds like.
- Former CROs and risk executives
- Who have carried the accountability themselves and know where the evidence usually runs out.
- Independent governance and risk advisers
- With live client relationships, at or one step from the accountable executive.
- Specialist consultants
- Where the intervention conditions are particular and the general framing does not reach them.
- Experienced chairs and non-executives
- Who have put the question to an executive and know how rarely it gets a straight answer.
Two boundaries, stated plainly rather than buried. Anybody holding a current supervisory or regulatory role is outside this entirely. A current fiduciary role at an organisation does not prevent you taking part, and it does mean no payment arises in relation to that organisation.
We ask you to forward one link. Not to make the case.
The role is deliberately small, because a small role is one you can fill without spending standing you took years to build.
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One person.
Somebody you believe genuinely carries accountability for a consequential system already running.
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One link.
The Intervention Readiness Snapshot, on a link that identifies you. Ten questions, about two minutes, result free with no details required.
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Your judgement that it is relevant.
Nothing beyond that. If the question does not apply to anyone you know, it does not apply, and saying so is useful.
- Sell AGDA™.
- Explain Intervene.
- Qualify the prospect.
- Negotiate anything.
- Defend the methodology.
- Make a high-stakes commercial introduction.
Establishing the need, qualifying the opportunity and carrying the commercial conversation is our work. If a recipient has questions, they come to us.
Early sight of a field still being defined.
Intervention Readiness is new enough that the evidence base is still forming. Participation puts you close to that work, and close to people carrying the same question in other sectors. What is on offer is intellectual access, not commercial access.
- Occasional discussions
- Small groups, experienced people, one problem at a time. Chatham House Rule where it helps. No pitch, no training, nothing to sign, and sometimes a short anonymised note afterwards.
- Early sight of the evidence
- Selected findings from the Intervention Readiness Index as the evidence base develops.
- Somewhere for sector experience
- How intervention fails is particular to a sector. Submitting that experience, or challenging what we have concluded, runs through the same documented route open to any external practitioner and is judged on quality alone.
- Occasional briefings
- A short research note when there is something worth saying.
What this is not. Participation is not accreditation and carries no authorisation of any kind. It grants no access to the AGDA™ criteria or rubric, no licence to use the method, and no standing to assess anybody. There is nothing to progress through and nothing to qualify for.
Participation creates no commercial relationship. Intervene sometimes works directly with advisers, researchers and specialists where there is a specific reason to, and such an arrangement is separate work rather than a step up from anything. It confers no authority over an assessment and no influence on a verdict.
Your link says it came from you. It says nothing about who you sent it to.
Attribution and identification are two separate events, and keeping them separate is what makes the mechanism legible rather than covert.
- On arrival
- The code is read and removed from the address bar. It is held in the page for that visit and written nowhere on the reader’s device.
- What it identifies
- Which participant the visit came through. It carries no recipient identity, and none can be derived from it.
- On completion
- We know a Snapshot was completed on your link. We do not know who completed it.
- If they identify themselves
- They may choose to give their details to receive the fuller result. That is a separate act, taken later and by them, and it is the only route by which we come to know who they are.
- What you are told
- Only that an organisation has been attributed to you, and only once that organisation has volunteered itself. You are never told who received your link.
What this does not claim: that a recipient can never become known to us. They can, by their own choice, in their own time. What it claims is narrower and checkable. We never learn who they are through your link. How this is recorded is set out in the privacy notice.
Nobody with a commercial interest goes near the verdict.
AGDA™ is sold as an independent assessment. The Network is therefore designed so that commercial relationships cannot reach the assessment itself.
- A commercial introduction never affects AGDA™ evidence, interpretation, scoring, findings or verdict.
- No commercial payment varies according to the outcome of an AGDA™ assessment. Any fee arises on contract signature.
- Commercial participation confers no methodological authority. Evidence, challenge and sector insight may be submitted through the same documented route open to any external practitioner, and are judged on quality alone.
- Participation is not open to anybody holding a current supervisory or regulatory role.
- Where somebody holds a current directorship, trusteeship or fiduciary role at an organisation, they may take part, and no payment arises in relation to that organisation.
- No payment arises where it would be improper under an organisation’s own policies, or would breach law or regulation, including the Bribery Act 2010.
- Where a commercial arrangement exists, the client is told before they sign, not when the verdict arrives.
We would rather lose an introduction than answer a question about whether a verdict was bought.
Taking part carries no fee, and most people who do will never have a commercial arrangement with us. Where it is appropriate and you are able to accept one, Intervene may separately agree a disclosed commercial introduction arrangement, on terms set out in that agreement rather than here and subject to everything above. If that is of interest, say so when you write. If it is not, nothing changes.
There is no form. There is a conversation.
Write to us and we will reply. If it makes sense, we talk for twenty minutes, and if it still makes sense after that you are issued a link of your own. Nothing is signed and nothing is joined.
A person replies within one to two working days. We do not auto-reply.
Intervene Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 17317647. This page is not an offer of payment and creates no contractual engagement. Taking part confers no status and no commercial entitlement. Any fee arises only under a separately signed agreement and is unaffected by the outcome of any assessment.