TOOLS & RESOURCES
Practical tools for investors, boards and operators who need clarity, not theatre.
These tools are built from 25 years of frontline work across 80+ countries. They’re for real-world situations: limited time, complex environments, and decisions under pressure.
This page helps you work out what you need at your stage — whether you’re an investor assessing a deal, seeking investment, or a business trying to avoid expensive mistakes.
1. For Investors: DD-lite, on us
Ready to Protect Your Investments?
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2. Pre-Investment Tools (Deal Stage)
If you’re early in diligence or pressure-testing a thesis.
These tools help you see the contextual risk that kills value later: sector, country, business model, third parties, and incentives.
Beyond the Surface: Deep-Dive Risk Guide
Serious political risks, fraud and misconduct often hide in plain sight.
This guide helps you find what typical DD misses.
Business Integrity Toolkit (Swedfund + Transparency International Sweden)
A step-by-step pre-investment integrity DD guide with a working Excel tool.
Useful when you need a structured DD approach but don’t want consultancy hours.
3. Post-Investment: Building the Foundations
You’ve invested. Now you need to strengthen governance before something breaks.
Making Risk Relevant (Integrity Risks 101)
Short, practical primer for founders.
What risks matter, why they matter, and how not to drown in frameworks.
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4. Fraud & Economic Crime Risk (New UK Act Ready)
If you’re worried about fraud, you should be.
Fraud is now systemic and accelerated by weak culture, AI and blurred accountability. The tools below help you meet the benchmark implied by the Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act.
Fraud Prevention Assessment
A high-bar benchmark across fraud governance, detection, behaviour, and consequence management.
ACCA Fraud Landscape Report
If you think fraud is a “controls problem”, this report will change your mind. ACCA’s global fraud research — which we contributed to — shows how fraud has become industrialised: AI-enabled deception, cross-border networks, procurement leaks, and internal abuses hiding in plain sight.
The message is simple: You can’t spreadsheet your way out of weak culture, slow governance, or blurred accountability.
What happens most vs what hurts most.
Where fraud hides.
Why organisations don’t look.
And what boards need to change if they want early detection instead of a late-stage crisis.
5. Book: Bootstrapping Ethics
If you want the full operating system in one place.
