The capacity read taken before the money moved.
The read was fielded across three weeks in November 2025 and delivered to the deal team on 24 November. It produced eight recommendations, all dated before the purchase agreement was signed. One was delivered on time. Two arrived late. One was declined. Two were never started. One was deferred behind another workstream, came back seven months later, and is still open.
No Momentum Decision is published on a reading before signature. There was no engagement yet whose intensity needed setting.
Transaction named
Partners were signatories. The instrument named the transaction and asked about it directly.
Equity partners
26
57.7
Intention
A group split down the middle, and the split runs on years to runway rather than on anything the deal team was looking at.
Composite 57.7. Intention at 54 is the lowest of the three and governs capacity here.
61
Motivation
54
Intention
58
Attention
No recommendation attached to this finding
Transaction undisclosed
A confidential deal is not disclosable to staff, so these groups answered a culture and engagement survey run by their own managing partner. Nobody was asked about a transaction.
Directors
58
48.3
Motivation
The constraint was fully visible seven weeks before signature, and the deal team was reading twenty-six signatures.
Composite 48.3. Motivation at 44 is the lowest of the three and governs capacity.
44
Motivation
52
Intention
49
Attention
Practitioners
341
64
No single constraint
No single constraint. Three hundred and forty-one people with nothing structurally wrong before the deal.
Composite 64.0. The spread across the three dimensions is four points, so the instrument returns no single constraint rather than naming a governing dimension.
66
Motivation
64
Intention
62
Attention
No recommendation attached to this finding
Firm operations
74
57.7
Intention
Intention was the exposure before anyone knew there was a deal, and the recommendation was a schedule.
Composite 57.7. Intention at 55 is the lowest of the three and governs capacity.
58
Motivation
55
Intention
60
Attention
Risk
18
71
No single constraint
No single constraint, and the highest composite in the pre-close read.
Composite 71.0. The spread across the three dimensions is four points, so the instrument returns no single constraint rather than naming a governing dimension.
71
Motivation
73
Intention
69
Attention