Legal input to the board
- Lowest legal risk on these weights: Country A.
- The order is sensitive to: Light data-localisation burden (counted one and a half times).
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Demonstration: Brightwater Software (fictional) · Software. Fictional data and a scripted answer.
The situation
- Organisation
- Brightwater Software (fictional)
- Who is asking
- General counsel
- Industry
- Software
- What happened
- The company plans to open a subsidiary in one of four countries and asks legal to rank them on legal risk.
The question asked
Which of the four countries carries the least legal risk for our software business, and is the answer robust?
What it reads, and who can see the result
- Legal assessments by country documentShort notes prepared by local counsel.
- Data and IP summaries documentLocalisation and IP enforcement notes.
- Reads
- Local counsel's notes and the summaries the legal team provides.
- Does not read
- Any privileged advice beyond the notes shared.
- Permission
- General counsel access.
- Who sees it
- General counsel, the CFO and the board.
Try it
Change how much each criterion matters. The ranking is recomputed, and the page tells you whether the leader would survive a different judgement.
- 1Country AMature courts, strict localisation.Legal certainty: 5Light data-localisation burden: 2Strong IP enforcement: 5Simple corporate and tax compliance: 33.95
- 2Country BLight localisation, slow courts.Legal certainty: 3Light data-localisation burden: 5Strong IP enforcement: 3Simple corporate and tax compliance: 43.64
- 3Country CSimple compliance, weaker IP.Legal certainty: 4Light data-localisation burden: 4Strong IP enforcement: 2Simple corporate and tax compliance: 53.55
- 4Country DFast growth, uncertain rules.Legal certainty: 2Light data-localisation burden: 3Strong IP enforcement: 4Simple corporate and tax compliance: 22.86
The leader would change if Light data-localisation burden (counted one and a half times). Treat the order as sensitive to that judgement.
Leader's margin over the next option: 0.32. The leader can change under another weighting.
The answer
Simulated answer. Written for this fictional case, not produced by a live model. Only the figures in it are computed, from what you decided above.
With these weights the lowest legal risk is Country A (score 3.95).
Each country is scored from local counsel's notes on four dimensions and combined with the weights you set [S1][S2][S3]. The order is could change under the weightings tested; it would change if Light data-localisation burden (counted one and a half times).
A software company that depends on IP will weigh enforcement heavily; one that mostly processes personal data will weigh localisation. Move the weights to see how much the answer depends on that judgement.
Relies on: S1 · Local counsel notes, four countriesS2 · Data localisation summaryS3 · IP enforcement summary
Review and approval
The general counsel decides. Approving records the ranking as the legal input to the board's choice. It does not choose the country or commit the company.
Ready for the reviewer.
In the product this is a different person with the right permission. Here you play that role to see the rule.
What it produces
Limits of this example
- Scores are counsel's judgements on synthetic notes, not measurements.
- Legal risk is one input; commercial reasons may differ.
- This is a scripted demonstration on fictional data. No model was called and no real organisation, person or result is shown.
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