Choose a handful of warning signals that would tell you a shock is coming while you can still act, and put them where you will actually see them.
First in See It Coming and Stay Ready.
Pick your signals. Use the numbers your financial and concentration work already produce rather than inventing new ones. For each, set the level that should worry you.
| Signal | Where the number comes from | Your worry line | How often you check it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Months of cash on hand | your financial work | ||
| Share of money from your largest source | your Concentration Map | ||
| Next big funder or contract renewal date | your records | ||
| A signal specific to your work |
Good early warning is a few signals, watched on a rhythm, each with a line that means act now. If a signal has no worry line, you will watch it cross into danger without noticing. If it lives nowhere you look, it is not a warning. The point is not to track everything; it is to see the one or two shocks that announce themselves before they land. Reads months of cash from financial health and management and the largest-source share from the Concentration Map. Feeds the Resilience Review and Drill.
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