# Running an acceptance meeting

The meeting where a holder accepts, funds or fixes. Thirty minutes, one holder, their material risks.

## Before

- For each risk: the statement, the facts that establish it with sources, the facts that would end it, the controls and their states, and the chain above the holder.
- The ladder on one page.
- Any rung the holder cannot honour struck off in advance. An interval nobody can deliver is a finding, not an option.

## During

1. Read the risk and its facts. If the holder disputes a fact, the risk does not change; the fact is checked. Disagreement resolves into which fact is wrong, not whose view wins.
2. Offer the three doors: accept for a rung, fund, or fix.
3. For an acceptance: the rung, and the action before it ends. Written down in the holder's words.
4. For funding: the project, its cost and its duration, which becomes the interval.

## After

- The decision is written to the risk's record the same day.
- The GRC platform's row is updated with the interval, the expiry date and a link to the vault.
- The holder's boss sees the decision arrive through the chain.

## When the holder will not decide

Record that. Unaccepted is critical, and the risk escalates at the next expiry check. The meeting's job is not to force a signature; it is to make the absence of one visible.