JUDGMENT
Challenge the comfortable assumption.
We examine the evidence beneath the recommendation, surface competing explanations, and ask what could change the decision before capital or credibility goes on the line.
ROWAN PRIME / THE MISSING CHAIR
The wrong assumption
can cost a fortune.
Who challenges yours?
ROWAN Prime brings independent judgment, AI governance, and operational scrutiny to decisions that put capital, continuity, and reputation on the line. We help leadership test assumptions, strengthen the evidence, and turn decisions into progress the executive team can demonstrate.
See what the work would look like.
A 26-page executive guide expands all ten facets: the leadership purpose, scope, deliverables, inputs, readiness, and practical ways to judge the work.
INDEPENDENT CHALLENGEGOVERNED AIACCOUNTABLE FOLLOW-THROUGH
THE MISSING CHAIR / YOUR BOARD'S ADVANTAGEBetter questions.
Better questions.
Stronger decisions.
A board seat earns its value through the decisions it improves. Our advisory work connects independent challenge to practical action: what supports the decision, who owns the outcome, and what happens when the assumptions fail.
AI GOVERNANCE
Know who can act—and who can stop it.
We help leadership examine AI permissions, human accountability, intervention, and recovery. Every proposed capability needs a clear owner, boundaries, and evidence of control.
EXECUTION
Follow the decision beyond the meeting.
We connect decisions to named owners, handoffs, review dates, and measures of progress, so leadership can see what happened after everyone agreed.
THE MISSING CHAIR / A CLEAR ENGAGEMENT PATH
Fit conversation → agreed mandate, scope, and access → evidence review → executive findings and decision brief → optional scoped advisory work → review of actions and results.
No engagement proceeds until decision rights, inputs, and deliverables have a clear owner.
Schedule an advisory fit conversationYour next consequential decision deserves independent scrutiny.
Bring us the recommendation your board feels most confident about. Together, we can examine the assumptions, the evidence, and the plan for when reality pushes back.
Discuss board or advisory fitA PRACTICAL FIRST 90 DAYSMake the contribution visible.
Make the contribution visible.
Then judge the value.
A starting agenda for a scoped advisory engagement, tailored to your mandate, priorities, and access.
DAYS 01–30
Expose the decision gaps.
Review a priority decision, map its assumptions and dependencies, and examine material AI and operational exposures.
Deliverable: decision brief and prioritized questions.DAYS 31–60
Put ownership around the response.
Develop a practical action plan with the executive team: owners, decision rights, escalation triggers, and evidence requirements.
Deliverable: agreed action and accountability map.DAYS 61–90
Bring the evidence back.
Review progress against the agreed measures, examine unresolved exceptions, and recommend what to continue, change, or stop.
Deliverable: executive review and next decisions.
THE BOOK / CURRENT WEB EDITIONThe Missing Seat.
The Missing Seat.
The case for independent judgment.
When Growing Companies Need an Independent Strategic Adviser. Larry Harmon explores the decisions, blind spots and execution gaps that deserve a place at the leadership table.
Read the current 12-chapter edition, with practical worksheets and decision tools. An author revision will follow.
THE MISSING CHAIR / WORKFORCE & BENEFITSBetter census data.
Better census data.
A clearer leadership decision.
ROWAN Census Intelligence brings workforce and benefits census readiness into The Missing Chair advisory engagement. It gives leaders a practical first step toward understanding the information gaps behind a benefits decision.
Start with a scoped 48-hour census-readiness test. We agree on the scope, authorized environment and delivery window before work begins, then identify missing fields, inconsistent records and questions for your benefits adviser.
YOUR ENVIRONMENT. YOUR AUTHORITY.
The controlled AI workflow runs inside the employer’s authorized AI environment. Begin with a business inquiry only; keep employee census files out of email and inquiry forms.
Your licensed benefits adviser handles coverage recommendations, quoting and placement.
02 / DREADNOUGHT CLIENT INTELLIGENCEFind the opportunity.
Find the opportunity.
Earn the conversation.
A developing, modular prospect-to-appointment system. Capabilities below describe the product roadmap, not a claim of live automated delivery.
Read scope & deliverables (PDF)DISCOVER
Organic lead discovery
Evaluate public business websites, identify fit and decision-maker roles, and build traceable lead records.
QUALIFY
Enrichment & verification
Check business attributes, contact sources, relevance, freshness and outreach eligibility before routing.
ENGAGE
Appointment workflows
Coordinate approved electronic outreach, response handling and qualified meeting requests with human oversight.
COMING SOON
Compliant power dialer
Planned human-supervised calling with consent and suppression checks, calling-hour controls, carrier integration and audit records.
ROWAN’S SCOPE / AKESIDAS CANCER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENTFrom a research signal.
From a research signal.
To a disciplined development pathway.
The pursuit of cancer cures illustrates the reach of ROWAN Prime’s work: turning complex evidence into questions, qualified contacts, and decisions that can advance a serious research initiative.
AKESIDAS applies DREADNOUGHT Catalyst to Larry Harmon’s cancer research and development initiative. Larry serves as the R&D client; DREADNOUGHT Catalyst provides research coordination and development planning within ROWAN Prime’s wider advisory scope.
EVIDENCE
Examine the research.
Find accessible primary papers, trace claims to their sources, distinguish laboratory, animal, and human findings, and assemble evidence packs that expose limitations and unanswered questions.
Outputs: literature maps, evidence summaries, and reviewer questions.EXPERTISE
Find the people who can test it.
Identify relevant oncology researchers, independent reviewers, laboratories, and potential collaborators. Prepare ranked contact shortlists and focused briefing materials for expert conversations.
Outputs: reviewer shortlists, collaboration packets, and outreach preparation.DEVELOPMENT
Plan the next defensible step.
Map validation needs, dependencies, phased expenditures, funding avenues, and decision gates. Define what evidence would justify continuing, changing direction, or stopping.
Outputs: development roadmaps, milestone budgets, and funding preparation.Ambitious mission. Inspectable evidence.
Current scope covers research synthesis, independent-review preparation, and development coordination. AKESIDAS does not currently offer a proven cancer cure, clinical treatment, or laboratory validation. Qualified scientists and appropriately authorized institutions must perform experimental and clinical work.
The same discipline serves other complex ventures: establish what the evidence supports, identify the right expertise, and organize the next accountable action.
Discuss research collaboration or a complex development challenge03 / PLANNED SERVICE TIERSChoose your operating altitude.
Choose your operating altitude.
Scale with evidence.
Indicative roadmap pricing, subject to final scope, availability and contracting. No self-service purchase or automated activation currently offered.
PLANNED
PRO
$999 / monthFoundational lead intelligence and guided workflows.
Discuss fitPLANNED
MASTER
$9,999 / monthExpanded prospecting, qualification and managed execution design.
Discuss fitPLANNED
SUMMIT
Custom quoteMulti-team governance, integrations and tailored operating capacity.
Discuss fitPLANNED
BLACK BOX
Enterprise quoteBespoke, tightly governed intelligence architecture and advisory oversight.
Discuss fit02 / SOLUTIONS PORTFOLIOPurpose-built intelligence.
Purpose-built intelligence.
Accountable execution.
Explore emerging frameworks, methodologies and applications. Availability and deployment readiness require confirmation during consultation.
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CACHELINE
Organizational intelligenceA proposed approach to preserving useful organizational context and accelerating informed decisions.
Explore the ideal business fit02
DREADNOUGHT RECALL
Searchable evidence and decision continuityFind approved documents, screenshots, recordings, and past decisions by meaning, then inspect the original sources before acting.
Explore RECALL03
DREADNOUGHT GOVERNANCE PILOT
Controlled AI workflowA bounded test of decision rights, evidence controls, failure paths and human intervention in a high-risk workflow.
Explore the controlled workflow pilot04
SHADOW HUNTER
Unmanaged AI discoveryA governance concept for identifying shadow AI usage, exposure and control gaps.
Explore agent authority intelligence05
DARAM
AI risk assessmentA developing risk-assessment approach for governing AI deployments and interventions.
Read scope & deliverables (PDF)06
OUTCOME INFERENCE ENGINEERING
Outcome-focused engineeringA methodology under development for linking actions, evidence and desired outcomes.
Read scope & deliverables (PDF)07
BEHAVIOR-BASED SUCCESS
EDGE performance methodologyThe existing EDGE framework for observable behavior, execution, measurement and adaptation.
Read scope & deliverables (PDF)03 / DREADNOUGHT GOVERNANCENo evidence.
No evidence.
No governance.
Authorized action, bounded execution, continuous observation, enforceable intervention and durable evidence form the foundation of the DREADNOUGHT governance philosophy.
Discuss governance architectureLARRY HARMON / FOUNDER, ROWAN PRIMEOperational discipline.
Operational discipline.
Independent judgment.
Larry Harmon's background spans Army service, offshore safety instruction, and the development of AI governance methods. That work shapes the questions he brings to leadership: What supports this decision? Who owns the handoff? What happens when the plan meets pressure?
Our work connects that operational discipline to board and executive priorities: AI, operating resilience, and accountable execution. Larry leads each engagement and takes responsibility for the advice, commitments, and follow-through.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US
Clear questions. Plain language. Evidence you can inspect. Explicit ownership. A record of what we agreed and what happened next.
We combine structured research, AI-assisted analysis, and human judgment to develop recommendations leadership can examine and act on. Larry reviews the analysis and takes responsibility for the recommendations.
Put a consequential decision on the agenda05 / EXISTING FLAGSHIP METHODOLOGYBehavior-Based Success™
Behavior-Based Success™
The EDGE framework.
EDGE links Execution, Decision-making, Group coordination and Evaluation. The framework translates goals into observable practices and evidence-informed adjustment.
EDGE CYCLE
Execution → Decision-making → Group coordination → Evaluation
Explore EDGE licensingYour board's next advantage
starts with a conversation.
Bring one consequential decision. We bring independent scrutiny and a practical agenda for helping your leadership team move forward. Together, we can examine the fit for a board appointment or a defined advisory engagement.