Strategic Red Teaming
We do not validate strategies. We break them.
For board members: Start with the [Diagnostic Snapshot].
See what the output looks like before reading the method.
The Strategic Stress Test covers: The Shift to Agentic AI / Five Master Questions / The Pressure Map / The Governance Envelope / What to Do Next.
For For CIOs and CDOs: Start with [How It Works].
The adversarial AI layer and evidence discipline.
For For external advisors: Start with the [Engagement process]. The four phases, evidence discipline, and what your client receives.
Every strategy will be attacked.
By regulation. By competitors. By market shifts.
By the systems that now execute decisions faster than any board can review.
Most strategies do not fail because leaders are wrong.
They fail because the strategy was never exposed to the conditions it will actually face.
Why this matters
In a world where AI systems make decisions, regulators demand proof, and critical dependencies concentrate in fewer hands, an untested strategy is no longer ambition.
It is liability.
Boards and regulators no longer ask: What is the plan?
They ask: Can you prove it holds under pressure? Can you exit what you depend on? Can you defend every decision that was made?
If the answer is no, the strategy is exposure, not strategy.
We subject your strategy to sustained, adversarial pressure until every weak assumption is exposed.
Not through workshops. Not through opinions. Through a structured, evidence-based process that treats your strategy as a system, and tests whether it holds when reality pushes back.
What fails is removed. What survives is rebuilt.
Not a story. Not a vision. A strategy that holds.
Our core proposition
Not a report.
A forensic map of your strategic and technological exposure.
A verified understanding of where your strategy will break.
Tested concentration and exit readiness across critical dependencies.
A rebuilt course of action that has already survived hostile pressure.
Not a vision.
A strategy that holds when the world pushes back.
Our deliverables
"In a world of machine-made decisions, an untested strategy is unmanaged risk"
The first step: Strategic Intake
What happens exactly?
What it is
A structured, one-day scoping session. External intelligence only. No internal disruption.
What you receive
A written assessment of which strategic domains carry the highest exposure, a scoping recommendation for the full Strategic Exposure Scan, a preliminary Pressure Map, and an explicit go/no-go recommendation.
What it takes
10 business days. One briefing conversation. No committee.
What is the investment
€3,640 ex. VAT
What it does not do
It does not commit you to a full engagement. You can stop after seeing the findings.
"Every additional AI-assisted decision increases exposure faster than governance can catch up"
Our Engagement Process
A forensic, adversarial approach to identifying systemic weaknesses and verifying structural resilience.
01
Strategic Exposure Map
Before any red-teaming begins, we build a forensic map of where your strategy depends on things you do not fully control:
Technologies. Vendors. Data sources. Jurisdictions. AI models. Cloud providers.
We analyse your dependencies across more than 100 criteria including data sovereignty, legal jurisdiction, auditability, exitability, concentration risk and geopolitical exposure.
This reveals where your strategy is truly sovereign. And where it is dangerously exposed.
Strategic Red Teaming cannot begin until this map exists.
02
Adversarial Stress Testing
Your strategy is tested from every angle that could break it.
We become every voice with a stake in the outcome. The regulator demanding proof. The competitor looking for the weakest assumption to exploit. The market, shifting without warning. The sceptic, who sees what everyone else chose not to.
Every assumption is challenged. Every dependency is tested. Every scenario that could destroy the strategy is built out and examined systematically, not speculatively.
03
Concentration & Exit Readiness
We assess whether your critical dependencies can actually be exited, audited and defended under pressure.
Not in theory. With tested exit plans, documented switching paths, and verified continuity logic.
Increasingly expected by supervisors and auditors in regulated sectors (under DORA and NIS2). Not as best practice. As proof.
A dependency that cannot be exited is not infrastructure. It is risk.
04
Strategic Reconstruction
When the failure modes are clear, we rebuild.
Weak assumptions removed. Governance gaps closed. Dependencies corrected. Control points installed.
What remains is a strategy that can be executed, defended and trusted. Under audit. Under competition. Under regulation. Under failure.
Apparens combines strategy, AI, data, regulation and execution into one adversarial model. That is resilience engineering for decision systems
What you receive
Concrete, board-ready outputs. No theory decks.
Strategic Exposure Map
A forensic inventory of strategic dependencies, assumptions, and control gaps. Technology, vendors, data, jurisdictions, AI systems.
Adversarial Stress Test Results
Your strategy tested across 60+ diagnostic questions. Independently scored as Green, Amber, or Red.
Governance Envelope Assessment
A clear determination of whether your organisation operates inside or outside demonstrable control.
Decision Document
A concise decision brief. Invest, adjust, or stop. Each recommendation backed by explicit evidence.
All outputs are delivered as a single board-ready package. No interim decks. No status updates. One delivery.
Phase 1 runs independently of internal politics and can be stopped after delivery.
Findings focus on structural exposure, not individual decisions or performance.
What it requires from you
Focused access.
Minimal disruption.
Access to relevant strategy, AI and IT architecture, and governance documentation.
Two to three interviews with senior stakeholders.
No workshops. No self-assessments. No surveys.
Timeline
Fast, contained, and deliberate.
Phase 0: Strategic Intake
A structured, one-day scoping session to determine whether a full diagnostic is warranted and what it should cover. This is not a sales conversation. It is the first layer of analysis.
Includes:
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Preliminary review of publicly available strategic signals;
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Scoping of the diagnostic surface;
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Initial exposure assessment;
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Written summary of findings and recommendation.
Fee: €3,640 ex. VAT, plus travel expenses. Subject to a mutual non-disclosure agreement.
If the engagement proceeds to a full Strategic Exposure Scan, the Phase 0 fee is credited in full against the engagement total.
Phase 1–4: Strategic Exposure Scan, Adversarial Stress Testing, Concentration & Exit Readiness, Strategic Reconstruction. Typically three to four weeks from kickoff to delivery.
