Who signs during the founder's sick leave
2026NowDeadline · Decision window: 9 days before the CEO's long-term leave
Realistic synthesis
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The question to decide
During the CEO's eight-month absence, two core supply contracts must be renewed. The co-founder has little financial experience, and an experienced outside candidate requires a role of at least one year, while joint signatures could delay decisions. To handle the contracts on time and also prepare for the CEO's return, who should be given which decision rights?
Who decidesTwo co-founders and the board
What the AI judgments chose
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The options
The order shown is not a ranking of preference.
The situation as it stands
The representative has decided to take long-term leave, and the company must renew two key supply contracts over the same period. Decision deadline: 9 days before the representative's long-term leave begins.
2026 fictional case · Who signs during the founder's sick leave. The people, organizations, figures, and events are a synthetic premise constructed for comparison.
- Premise 1The representative has decided to take long-term leave, and the company must renew two key supply contracts over the same period.
- Premise 2The co-founder knows the product well but has little experience managing finances.
- Premise 3An external candidate has experience but demands a fee and a guarantee of the role for at least one year.
Where it holdsTemporary representative authority, contract limits, return conditions
What is still unknown
- Unknown 1The extent to which the representative can actually participate during the leave
- Unknown 2The deadlines of the key contracts and the judgment expertise required
- Unknown 3Agreement on the conditions for ending the temporary authority
Signals to decide again
- Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window will verify “the extent to which the representative can actually participate during the leave,” and re-decide if new verification changes the tradeoff of an option.
- Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window will verify “the deadlines of the key contracts and the judgment expertise required,” and re-decide if new verification changes the tradeoff of an option.
- Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window will verify “agreement on the conditions for ending the temporary authority,” and re-decide if new verification changes the tradeoff of an option.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
The supplier moved up the renewal deadline, and the two contracts now fall in the same week.
The co-founder proposed a plan for joint representation with an external finance officer.
Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
Where is the continuity of a company rooted once its members, customers, and purpose have changed?
An exploratory perspective chosen by the creator. Does not claim supernatural validity or the superiority of any particular option.The benefits and costs of the options accrue to different stakeholders. Which loss to accept remains undecided.
A subject for the decision-maker to argue over; the materials carry no conclusion of their own.- OECD · SMEs and entrepreneurship accessed 2026-09-08
- ICA · Cooperative identity, values and principles accessed 2026-09-08
The record of this question
- Question
FSP-VENTURE-03· version 1.4.0- Content identity, SHA-256
6b11f43118f29cc0f2078ecc509b09540798f709345604b275e5222749995c1d- Input files
- Question input JSON · What followed, JSON