The Unravelling Map™

The real risk is not “tension”.

It is delayed decisions, confused authority, and value leaking out of the business while partners look sideways at each other.

You see it in:

• Decisions that should take days dragging for weeks.
• Partners avoiding each other or running separate agendas.
• Key staff starting to look elsewhere.
• Drawings and expectations that no longer match profit or contribution.

This is the point where a solvable commercial problem turns into an expensive, public dispute if it is left to drift.

The Unravelling Map™ is the intervention.

It is a four-week, fixed-fee process that gives you a clear picture of the conflict, the commercial risks, and the real options before litigation gets involved.

How the Unravelling Map™ works

The Map is a structured process, not a series of open-ended chats.

We move quickly to get to a concrete view.

Step 1: Map the risks and issues

• Speak with the key people.
• Build a factual timeline of what has happened.
• Identify the structural breaks driving the crisis (ownership, roles, decision rights, money).
• Set out the main commercial risks and where value is at risk.

Step 2: Clarify roles, ownership, and outcomes

• Make clear who holds what authority and responsibility now.
• Surface what each party wants and what they can live with.
• Document the current state in plain language that everyone can recognise, even if they do not like it.

Step 3: Set out the viable options

• Use litigation experience to outline how this could play out if you do nothing, fight, or fix it.
• Define the main options: stay, restructure, or separate.
• Test the consequences of each for value, control, and reputation so you can make a commercial decision, not a reactive one.

The result is a short written report that becomes the basis for either structural repair or an orderly separation.