What RECAIP Assesses
RECAIP examines the decision environment, not the preferred solution.
The service is designed to identify whether the structures surrounding a decision are strong enough to remain governable after approval.
The assessment is independent of delivery advocacy and does not seek to redesign the programme.
Authority Retention
RECAIP examines whether the organisation retains meaningful authority to intervene, challenge, pause, redirect, or escalate once the decision has moved into execution or commitment.
Accountability Continuity
The assessment considers whether accountability remains attached to the decision as conditions change, or whether responsibility becomes distributed across parties,
interfaces, governance layers, and delivery structures.
Information Integrity
RECAIP considers whether decision-makers are likely to receive information that remains timely, relevant, consistent, and decision-useful as the programme evolves.
Intervention Capability
A central concern is whether the organisation can still act effectively when uncertainty
resolves badly.
Intervention capability is not the same as formal authority.
It must remain practical, credible, and timely.
Temporal Exposure
Governance conditions change over time.
RECAIP examines where control may degrade after approval as commitments harden,
options narrow, and recovery becomes more expensive.
Governance Survivability
The overall question is whether governance survives contact with real programme
conditions.
RECAIP surfaces where assurance confidence may exceed the organisation's future ability to control outcomes.
