35–50 min
Learn the method
Complete one chapter from the existing self-paced Business Judgement Course.
Emerging Leaders: learn judgment and practise it on decisions without a neat answer.
Every week combines a chapter from the existing Business Judgement Course with a real company situation. Learn one tool, then put it under pressure.
45 min
Use it in a real case
Read the evidence, choose a path and write a short memo across the five FRAME moves.
Private
Use private feedback
See your reasoning gaps and a practical push. Your employer cannot open it.
Two tracks, one programme
Learn the tools in the existing Business Judgement Course while applying them to real company decisions. Both tracks run in parallel at your own pace.
The five moves behind every memorandum
F
Frame the decision
Name the real decision, the objective, the boundary, and the time horizon.
R
Use the evidence
Use decision-relevant facts from the case and separate them from assumptions.
A
Compare alternatives
Test genuinely different options and name the trade-off, stakeholders, and opportunity cost.
M
Price uncertainty
Name what could break, what is reversible, and the evidence that would change your mind.
E
Commit and learn
Choose, answer the strongest opposition, and name the next move or learning loop.
Course track · learn the tools
Existing course chapters unlock in order. No new course content is created.
Start here15–20 min
Welcome to Latchkey
How the course works
Chapter 140–50 min
What decision is actually on the table
Decision quality · Clarity test
Chapter 235–45 min
Intent, and what the dashboard can’t see
Commander’s intent · Map is not the territory
Chapter 335–45 min
Borrowed conviction
Outside view · Survivorship bias
Chapter 440–50 min
Four stories, one number
Falsifiability · Competing hypotheses
Chapter 540–50 min
What the money says no to
Opportunity cost · Trade-offs
Chapter 635–45 min
Arguing the other side
Steel-man · Red team
Chapter 740–50 min
How this decision fails
Inversion · Second-order thinking
Case track · use the tools
Each case takes about 45 minutes: read, decide, write and get private feedback.
Baseline · Rolls-Royce
Choose a financing mix under severe uncertainty and name the evidence that would reverse your call.
A case study in promises priced in advance
45 min
Capital allocation · Constellation Software
Allocate capital when the acquisition discipline that created the company no longer scales cleanly.
A case study in the price of your own discipline
45 min
Positioning · Bloomberg
Defend a position by identifying the system customers are truly buying, not merely the product they see.
A case study in owning the desk the market sits at
45 min
Distribution · Nike
Test the second-order effects of taking distribution under direct control before approving the strategy.
A case study in distribution
45 min
Strategic refusal · Rolex
Decide when saying no creates durable value and when scarcity turns into strategic fragility.
A case study in the economics of saying no
45 min
Uncertainty · SoftBank
Set a commitment under radical uncertainty without hiding behind confidence or vague optionality.
Case study. How to lose $70 Billion in a single year, and gain $200 Billion from a 6-minute meeting
45 min
Commitment · Palantir
Choose which customers and constraints define the company you are willing to build for the long term.
A case study in strategic refusal. Lose money for Seventeen Years, but finally reach profitability and valuation — $327 billion.
45 min
Final · Klarna
Own the credit risk hidden behind a frictionless customer promise and commit to a measurable course.
A case study in owning the risk you make invisible
45 min
Want to see the material, not just the outline?
Open one public case and inspect the evidence, questions and decision board.