Recommendation to the board
- Leading course on these weights: Negotiate a discount for prompt payment.
- Sensitive to: Likely recovery (counted one and a half times).
Legal Intelligence
Legal Scenario and Decision Intelligence
Compares possible lawful responses with their procedural risks, costs, uncertainty and the counsel review each needs, as a structured comparison for people.
Demonstration: Meridian Freight Group (fictional) · Freight and logistics. Fictional data and a scripted answer.
The situation
- Organisation
- Meridian Freight Group (fictional)
- Who is asking
- General counsel
- Industry
- Freight and logistics
- What happened
- A major customer disputes a large invoice and threatens to withhold payment; the board wants the strategic options laid out.
The question asked
Which course should we take on the disputed invoice, and does the answer depend on how we weigh risk against relationship?
What it reads, and who can see the result
- Contract and correspondence summary documentThe legal position in outline.
- Commercial context documentThe size of the relationship and alternatives.
- Reads
- A summary of the legal position and the commercial context, prepared by the general counsel.
- Does not read
- The full privileged file.
- Permission
- General counsel enters the summary.
- Who sees it
- General counsel, the CEO 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.
- 1Negotiate a discount for prompt paymentFast, concedes principle.Likely recovery: 3Low cost and time: 5Protects the relationship: 5Sets no harmful precedent: 13.67
- 2Mediation with a structured paymentMiddle course.Likely recovery: 4Low cost and time: 3Protects the relationship: 4Sets no harmful precedent: 33.61
- 3Suspend service until paidLeverage with contract risk.Likely recovery: 4Low cost and time: 4Protects the relationship: 2Sets no harmful precedent: 33.28
- 4Issue proceedingsStrongest recovery, longest and costliest.Likely recovery: 5Low cost and time: 1Protects the relationship: 1Sets no harmful precedent: 53.00
The leader would change if Likely recovery (counted one and a half times). Treat the order as sensitive to that judgement.
Leader's margin over the next option: 0.06. 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 top-ranked course is: Negotiate a discount for prompt payment (score 3.67).
The options are scored against what the business cares about [S1][S2]. The answer is could change under the weightings tested; it would change if Likely recovery (counted one and a half times), which is why the board's attitude to the relationship matters as much as the law.
Suspending service looks attractive on paper but may breach the contract, which the legal summary flags; the ranking cannot see that, which is why a lawyer reads the table, not just the order.
Relies on: S1 · Legal position summaryS2 · Commercial context note
Review and approval
The general counsel decides. Approving records the ranking as the legal recommendation to the board. It does not start any step against the customer.
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 judgements, not forecasts of outcome.
- The ranking cannot see contract risks that are not in the scoring.
- 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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