The Cost Ratio

The cost of governance failure, the evidence demonstrates, is measured in billions. The cost of continuous, adversarial governance challenge is measured in hundreds of thousands. The ratio does not require sophisticated modelling to understand.

Boeing 737 MAX settlements could have funded

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years of continuous, independent adversarial governance challenge

Failure Cost

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total liability

SGaaS Retainer

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continuous, principal-led, retained

The Ratio

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years of governance equivalent

Adjust Annual SGaaS Retainer

£300,000

£200,000 · Diagnostic / lower retained band £400,000 · Embedded / upper retained band

Boeing 737 MAX · 2018–2025 · ~$20 billion total

When safety sat outside the governance framework

Two crashes, 346 deaths.

The Economic Logic of SGaaS

The cost of a retained governance challenge function is measured in the low hundreds of thousands. The cost of governance failure, as the evidence demonstrates, is measured in the billions. The ratio does not require sophisticated modelling to understand.

From Strategic Governance as a Service — Marentis Labs, 2026.

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