Understand where your organisation is exposed, before someone else does.
An evidence-led view of the risks that damage balance sheets and reputations: corporate risk, recruitment vetting, internal fraud, corporate identity, whistleblowing arrangements and reputational threat.
What it is
A structured assessment of your organisation's exposure across the risk landscape: corporate governance risk, recruitment and vetting practices, internal fraud vulnerability, corporate identity and impersonation risk, the health of your whistleblowing arrangements, and the reputational threats sitting outside the accounts. Benchmarked against statutory guidance, sector expectations and how comparable organisations have failed in public.
When you'd instruct us
- A regulator, funder, insurer or acquirer has raised questions about your risk posture.
- You are entering a new sector, jurisdiction or delivery model and need a clean baseline.
- You suspect a gap between what your policies say and what is happening on the ground, particularly around recruitment, fraud and whistleblowing.
- A whistleblowing disclosure, near-miss or media enquiry has surfaced reputational risk the board must get ahead of.
- Trustees, non-executives or a parent group need independent assurance.
What you receive
- A written report with a maturity assessment, prioritised findings and recommendations across each risk domain.
- A confidential board briefing.
- Optional policy re-drafting, whistleblowing framework design and implementation support.
Typical engagement
The timeframe is agreed at instruction based on the scope of the work and its urgency. Fees are fixed and agreed in advance.
Anonymised example
After taking ownership of a critical multi-agency statutory risk management panel, we identified a systemic bottleneck that was causing severe delays in case processing. We translated the operational data into a clear risk narrative for the executive panel, setting out both the vulnerabilities and their root causes, and, despite initial stakeholder reluctance, secured agreement to trial a redesigned operational model. That model was subsequently adopted permanently, reducing case management turnaround from six weeks to 48 hours.
Illustrative UK cases
Publicly reported matters that illustrate the kind of exposure this discipline addresses. RAI Consultancy Ltd has no involvement in these cases; they are cited from reputable UK media and regulators for context only.
- 2024
Post Office Horizon: whistleblowing suppression and reputational collapse
A Fujitsu whistleblower who exposed that postmasters' branch accounts could be secretly altered was suppressed and discredited, contributing to hundreds of wrongful prosecutions and one of the largest reputational failures in UK corporate history.
Read source: BBC News ↗Citation & disclaimer: publicly reported by BBC News (2024). Cited as an illustrative example only. RAI Consultancy Ltd has no involvement in this matter.
- 2023
NatWest / Coutts: reputational crisis and CEO resignation
NatWest CEO Dame Alison Rose resigned after admitting she had been the source of an inaccurate media story about a customer's Coutts account, triggering a major reputational crisis and a wider national debate about how banks manage customer, media and political risk.
Read source: The Guardian ↗Citation & disclaimer: publicly reported by The Guardian (2023). Cited as an illustrative example only. RAI Consultancy Ltd has no involvement in this matter.
Confidential · Privileged · UK-wide