Priya’s briefing document arrived Thursday morning.
It was thirty-two pages — the specific comprehensive quality of someone who had spent three days doing the kind of research that produced thirty-two pages of genuinely useful material rather than thirty-two pages of padding. Aria read it at her desk in the order Priya had organized it: company overview, financial structure, compliance history, regulatory relationships, key personnel.
She reached the board roster on page eighteen.
Nine board members. Names, credentials, tenures, committee assignments. She read through them with the specific attention she always brought to key personnel documentation — understanding the people who held governance authority over an organization was foundational to understanding the organization itself.
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