A document sent for comment lets every reviewer register a small objection without anyone having to reconcile them — the result is a compromise nobody chose. A working session forces the same disagreements into a room where they have to be resolved live, in front of the person who owns the decision.
A delegate cannot make the call a working session is built to force, which is why the founder’s presence is treated as the product, not a scheduling inconvenience.
A session runs in four parts: framing states the specific decision on the table as a question with a forced choice, evidence is argued rather than just presented, the decision-maker chooses live on the call, and the decision and its reasoning get written up the same day rather than reconstructed later.
What it requires from the client is that the owner actually shows up. A session run without the real decision-maker in the room produces a recommendation, not a decision — and a recommendation is not what the format is built to output.
