Skill

Authority-conflict checker

Packaged know-how that tells an agent how to do a job well.

You might say…

The fractional CMO role looked clean on paper. The conflict checker showed me I'd be sitting above a full-time head of marketing with no exit clause. That's a setup for failure.

What it does

Surfaces where the proposed model's authority level collides with existing roles — CxO mandate overlapping a sitting executive, board seat creating a governance conflict — before committing.

Trigger: Use as a sanity gate once a candidate model is chosen, especially in organisations with existing leadership, before finalising the engagement form.

I/O: Proposed engagement model + existing leadership map → conflict flags with severity and suggested resolution

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