ALTITUDE 3 · THE FUNCTION
The whole function on the Line — every stage, gates named, evidence locked.
CFO, CPO, CAE — the standards have moved under you. The 2024 Global Internal Audit Standards made technology a conformance matter; EU AI Act oversight duties are in force; finance and procurement frameworks are following the same arc. "We haven't decided yet" is now a gap, not a position.
Score your function — free →The 90-second pitch — sound optional, captions on.
The clock you're actually on
The regulator moved first
GIAS 2024 in force since January 2025; EU AI Act Article 14 makes named, tested, evidenced human oversight a legal requirement for high-risk AI.
Your function is already exposed
AI is inside it today — individually, unlogged, invisible to quality. The audit trail question arrives before the strategy question.
The answer is architectural
One discipline across every function: the Line drawn stage by stage, the Lock enforcing it, a named human where money, people or the regulator are touched.
Score your function first
Each instrument: thirty questions, instant scored report, your band and your two weakest fields — the honest starting point for the board conversation.
Four instruments, one discipline
From score to governed function
The readiness assessment
Free, instant, board-ready language. Where the function stands today.
45 minutes with Madeleine
Your scores against the pattern from functions like yours — and an honest read on whether you need us at all.
The Diagnostic™ with your leadership team
Half a day: enablers and lifecycle stages scored in the room, compiled into a three-phase roadmap.
The 90-day programme + stewardship
The first stage brought fully onto the Line — then drift review, prompt re-authorisation and board reporting, ongoing.
Published — the function playbooks
Nobody buys governance from a stranger — people work with thinking they've lived with. Ours is free to read.
The CFO Line
Eight lifecycle stages across the four faces of finance, governed by the drift lock.
Open →The CPO Line
Ten stages of source-to-settle — honestly scoped against EU AI Act oversight duties. Award decisions stay with named humans.
Open →The Internal Audit Line
The audit lifecycle on two levels, aligned to GIAS 2024 — with Evidence Lock™ on every workpaper.
Open →The Consulting School — every altitude, one discipline
Nineteen working methods for governed, AI-augmented consulting — the same methods Madeleine practises, taught as a working discipline for individuals, teams and whole functions. The first method is free. £39.99/month per student thereafter.
Open the school — method one is free →The profile — who signs this work
Madeleine Joubert — 35+ years of transformation across CFO, CPO and CMO engagements; systems credited with £1bn of client savings in a single year, landed and recorded across Anglo Platinum, GSK, TEVA and SABMiller — read the stories behind the billion →. A practice, not a platform vendor: every instrument on this site is the methodology she works, practised before it was productised.
What we've built: the Augmentation Lines for finance, procurement, internal audit and the brand · four scored instruments · the Profiler™ · two published books and 28 free lessons · the Consulting School · the Lock Prompt™ Library · the Engagement Studio.
Ready to talk? Bring your score.
A 45-minute working session with Madeleine — your result on the table, your Line drawn, an honest read on whether you need us at all.
Book a 45-minute session →Nine sessions a week · once a slot is taken, it's gone
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