Outside Chair

Corporate strategy, with memory

Strategy that remembers why.

Challenge assumptions, preserve the evidence behind decisions, and carry agreed actions into the next review.

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Watch it work

Ask the question your strategy review should answer.

Your AI handles the conversation. Outside Chair keeps the assumptions, evidence, decisions and actions connected across reviews.

AssumptionsStrategy review

What are our key growth assumptions for the next three years?

Answer

The plan assumes mid-market demand will keep growing, product adoption will improve in core segments, and the operating model can scale without eroding margin.

Key evidence
  • Market forecast · Q3
  • 12 customer interviews
  • Sales pipeline analysis
What changed
  • Competitor entry confirmed
  • Pricing model revised
  • Adoption slower in one region
Recommendation

Keep the growth ambition, but test demand and pricing before committing the next expansion tranche.

The review loop

A clearer path from question to progress.

Outside Chair turns strategic discussion into a continuous loop, so the next decision starts with context instead of reconstruction.

  1. 1

    Assumptions & signposts

    Start with the beliefs and signals the plan depends on.

  2. 2

    New evidence

    Bring in the facts and perspectives that matter now.

  3. 3

    Approved position

    Agree what the evidence means for the strategy.

  4. 4

    Decision & action

    Make the call, record the rationale, assign the work.

  5. 5

    Later review

    Return with outcomes and revise what no longer holds.

Where it lives

Your strategy, in the tools you already use.

The interface

Your AI

ChatGPT, Claude or Codex—the conversation you already use.

The connector

Outside Chair

Captures and structures the parts of the conversation that matter.

The register

Structured strategy record

A durable history of assumptions, evidence, decisions and actions.

Built for real strategy work

Different roles. A shared advantage.

For independent advisers

  • Bring structure to client discussions
  • Capture evidence-backed recommendations
  • Strengthen follow-through and accountability
  • Deliver a clearer record over time

For management teams

  • Turn discussion into clear decisions
  • Keep a single source of strategic truth
  • Maintain momentum between reviews
  • Build confidence in execution

For strategy functions

  • Standardise the review process
  • Ensure evidence-based decisions
  • Track actions and progress
  • Support cross-functional alignment

Get started

Connect your AI to Outside Chair.

Use the agent you already trust. Outside Chair gives it a structured, permissioned place to carry the strategy forward.

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Set up with ChatGPT Work

Add Outside Chair, connect once with your email and one-time code, then start the conversation.

Open connection guide
  1. 01Add Outside Chair
  2. 02Enter email and code
  3. 03Confirm the connected profile

Structured. Versioned. Permissioned.

A strategy register you can trust.

Complete decision history

Keep the context, rationale and outcome behind every decision.

Evidence trail

Connect every position to the source material that supports it.

Role-based access

Keep sensitive strategy work visible to the right people.

The decisive product test

The decisive test is the second review.

Return with the evidence, decisions and actions already in place.

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