Governance Assurance & Capital Stewardship
Our assurance mandates
Decision assurance
Decision assurance is a formal owner-authority governance assurance mandate activated prior to capital commitment, market entry, contract award or project advancement. Under this mandate, TacminMadini is engaged to independently assure decision quality under owner authority. We are appointed to test assumptions, validate feasibility and readiness inputs, and assure alignment between scope, risk and commercial positions before commitments are made that are difficult to unwind. This service establishes independent assurance above advisory and delivery structures. TacminMadini does not design projects or produce studies; we assure the integrity, completeness and defensibility of the decision base relied upon by owners, boards and financiers.
Owners and boards use this mandate to ensure capital, strategy and risk decisions are made on a transparent, auditable and defensible basis, with clear accountability for assumptions, trade-offs and consequences, and alignment to long-term asset and land intent under board and stakeholder scrutiny.
Owners use this mandate to test whether market entry assumptions are defensible under governed market conditions, identifying readiness gaps, misalignment or latent exposure early, before capital, reputation or contractual commitments are locked in and downstream risk becomes difficult to reverse.
Owners use this mandate to ensure feasibility and pre-FID positions are technically credible, commercially aligned and investment-ready before capital is committed, reducing exposure to optimism bias, unsupported assumptions and misalignment between study outcomes and delivery reality.
Owners use this mandate to confirm that project assumptions will hold under real-world operating and delivery conditions, identifying misalignment, hidden exposure or execution risk early, before commitments become irreversible and downstream instability, claims or rework emerge.
Independent governance assurance to strengthen certainty, control and defensible capital decisions
Sarel Blaauw
senior partner
+61 498 785 165