How Cipher helps

Start with the decision. Build only the evidence path it needs.

Six decision domains organise commissioned work. Choose the closest exposure or commitment; Cipher then narrows the evidence path around the decision.

Business Advisory & Managed Governance is commissioned through whichever remaining decision domain or domains fit the client's decision and agreed scope. Fees and timing follow scope, evidence, geography, review burden and separately approved specialist costs.

Service route index

Six routes into commissioned work.

Use the closest route as the starting point. Scope can then narrow around the exposure, evidence gap, decision deadline and level of assurance required.

Infrastructure and capacity decisions

A decision context for counterparty, supply and strategic dependencies within another agreed intelligence scope. CIG does not offer power or microgrid diligence, data-centre site or permit readiness, engineering feasibility or technical sign-off.

Counterparty, supplier and procurement decisions

Procurement, supplier risk, OEM/distributor exposure, delivery risk, supply-chain diligence, concentration risk and logistics fragility.

Strategic investment and influence decisions

Strategic Investment & Influence Mapping tests where capital, ownership, operating rights, infrastructure, technology, data, supply chains or policy exposure create leverage.

Market, policy and growth decisions

Emerging-market entry, market intelligence, strategy and growth choices, market selection and partnerships. Public-Sector Evidence & Options requires evidenced competence and separately agreed scope; CIG provides no formal assurance, audit or value-for-money opinion.

Transactions support decisions

A decision context only, not a standalone CIG service or general capability. Specific questions must fit the agreed scope of another approved service.

Due Diligence & Background Intelligence

Specialist formats for structured counterparty, nominee, individual, corporate and background-risk intelligence.

Route 01 · Decision domain

Infrastructure and capacity decisions

What clients usually receive

Infrastructure Evidence & Dependency Review is a distinct documentary review subject to separate scope and specialist gates; it is not a replacement for retired infrastructure offers. Start with the question to establish whether any approved service fits.

Documentary evidenceDependenciesSpecialist boundaries

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Route 02 · Decision domain

Counterparty, supplier and procurement decisions

Procurement, supplier risk, OEM/distributor exposure, delivery risk, supply-chain diligence, concentration risk and logistics fragility.

What clients usually receive

Clients usually receive a counterparty decision note, exposure maps, evidence confidence view, residual uncertainty statement and next verification actions.

Typical output

Procurement & Supplier Risk Note

For tender exposure, supplier credibility, OEM/distributor risk, delivery risk and evidence-backed procurement decisions.

Typical output

Supply-Chain Exposure Map

For concentration risk, supplier dependencies, geographic exposure, logistics fragility and mitigation actions.

ProcurementSupplier riskSupply-chain diligenceDue diligence

Procurement and supplier risk →Start with a decision →

Route 03 · Decision domain

Strategic investment and influence decisions

Strategic Investment & Influence Mapping tests where capital, ownership, operating rights, infrastructure, technology, data, supply chains or policy exposure create leverage.

What clients usually receive

A scoped SIIM Sector Exposure Review examines exposure patterns, actors and dependencies. Other decision-pack or security formats require separate scope and approval; they are not a single standard package.

Strategic Investment & Influence Mappingcapital leveragecontroldependencypolicy risk

Strategic Investment & Influence Mapping →How Cipher works →

Route 04 · Decision domain

Market, policy and growth decisions

What clients usually receive

Clients may receive an Emerging-Market Entry Brief, Market Opportunity Brief or Strategy & Growth Options Paper with evidence gaps, uncertainty and practical decision gates.

Typical output

Emerging-Market Entry Brief

For market-entry decisions, operating context, counterparties, delivery risk, regulatory friction and local execution assumptions.

Typical output

Market Opportunity Brief

For opportunity sizing, route-to-market choices, partner options, uncertainty bands and commercial decision gates.

Typical output

Strategy & Growth Options Paper

For growth choices, prioritisation, market selection, partnership decisions and board-level action options.

Emerging-marketMarket intelligenceStrategygrowthPublic-sectoradvisory work

Emerging-Market Entry Brief →Start with a decision →

Route 05 · Decision domain

Transactions support decisions

A decision context only, not a standalone CIG service or general capability. Specific questions must fit the agreed scope of another approved service.

What clients usually receive

Scope the question to due diligence, procurement, market and growth intelligence, strategic investment mapping or a bounded infrastructure evidence review where appropriate. CIG provides no legal, tax, audit, valuation, corporate-finance or regulated investment advice.

Transactions supportred flagsdecision controls

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Route 06 · Decision domain

Due Diligence & Background Intelligence

Specialist formats for structured counterparty, nominee, individual, corporate and background-risk intelligence.

What clients usually receive

CIDDR, CIDDR-CP, BDAN and BDAN-PSR are commissioned due-diligence and background-intelligence formats. Signals and Lookahead are publications, not commissioned products or default monitoring subscriptions. Wider advisory uses its own scoped notes, briefs, maps and options papers.

CIDDRCIDDR-CPBDANSignalsLookahead

View specialist format structures →Signal archive →Source library →

Output structures

See how advisory and specialist outputs are organised.

First-pass heading sets show likely structure before commissioning the work, without turning a standard structure into a fixed scope.

View output structures

Decision brief

Unsure which route fits?

Send the decision, exposure, context, parties and deadline. Cipher will recommend the smallest useful scope.

Start with a decision