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Alder Health — independent director update

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1 · Scenario
2 · Brief
3 · Stakeholders

3 stakeholders in this room

Helen Park · Independent director
Cuts to the decision. Hates preambles. Will quote your last board number back to you.
David Okonkwo · Investor director
Quiet, exact, will ask you to repeat a number.
Sofia Ramirez · Independent director
Story-driven. Will bring a frontline anecdote that punctures a slide.

Room title

What does a win look like?

The evaluator scores against this. Personas do not see it unless you say it — and never as fuller ground truth than the deck.

Difficulty

Friendly

A champion is in the room. Pushback is polite and recoverable.

Realistic

Mixed temperature. At least one person will test every claim.

Hard

No free passes. Stacked objections, time pressure, and a dealbreaker.

Conversation language

Whisper and the stakeholders follow this. Catalog briefs stay English. Auto detects from your first spoken or typed turn, then stays put.

Deck (PDF)

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Brief / talk track

You are the CEO of Alder Health (care-ops software). This is a 25-minute board update, not a celebration. Q2 missed ARR by 14% versus the number you took to the last meeting. Burn is $410k/month. Runway is 11 months if nothing changes.

The story you can defend:
- Miss came from two enterprise slips (both security review), not from a collapsed pipeline. Pipeline coverage is 3.1x for Q3. One of those slips (Northline-class) is now in procurement.
- You want to keep the hiring freeze on GTM except one solutions engineer who unblocks the security reviews. Product stays frozen. That SE is a trade against a delayed brand campaign, not an add.
- Independent director Helen Park asked for this session after the miss. She has told other directors she is "not interested in another optimistic slide."
- Investor director David wants a range, kill-criteria, and who owns the number after you leave. Sofia will bring a customer anecdote if you sound like you have not been in the field.

Materials they have: last board pack, the miss memo you sent Friday, cash forecast v3. Do not recap the company. Go at the miss, the plan, and the ask.

1137 characters · ~2 chunks

Prefilled from the design-partner room. Personas retrieve from this material at turn time — same as a pasted deck.

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