Alignment Architecture A free tool from Dori Etter

The Missing Layer

Your accountability chart is missing the arrows.

You know who owns the work. This guided tool shows you how the work actually moves, where one person's output becomes another person's input, and what to inspect when it keeps breaking.

Inspect one real handoff

Enter your name and email to open your Handoff Card.

One real handoff. Five questions. No score. Privacy

What you will leave with

A location instead of a culprit.

Pick one piece of work that repeatedly stalls. You will locate the handoff, ask the five questions, and name its current condition. At the end, you will have one completed Handoff Card to take into a conversation with your team.

Before you use the tool

Work rarely stalls inside a seat.

It stalls in the space where one person's output needs to become another person's input.

Your accountability chart answers two questions: what must get done, and who owns it. Both matter. Neither tells you how the information each person needs reaches them at the right time, in the right format, from the right source.

That missing path is the flow. A seam is any point where important information changes hands. The big seams sit between marketing, selling, delivering and getting paid. The same seams also exist inside every function, sometimes between two people sitting three desks apart.

The balls do not get dropped because your people do not care. They get dropped at the seams.

The framework

Execution Architecture is three artifacts that make one picture.

01

Accountability Chart

Ownership

Marketingunowned gapSellingunowned gapDeliveringunowned gapGetting paid

Who owns what. A photograph of the company standing still.

02

Execution Blueprint

Motion

Marketingqualified lead →Sellingsigned scope →Deliveringwork complete →Getting paid

How each output becomes the next person's usable input.

03

Breakpoint Inspection

Condition

Marketingdesigned →Sellingdependent →DeliveringmissingGetting paid

Every seam gets a grade, including the ones that are working.

Ready to inspect one of your own seams? Open the Handoff Card ↑

What this tool does

It helps you see and map.

Execution Architecture reveals the condition of the pathway. It does not design the structural intervention at a breakpoint. That work comes after the Inspection. For today, one named seam is enough.