Sprint 63 · Founder Professional-Witness Briefs

Two founders. 60 combined years. One source of truth.

The two Q&A briefs that populate LWD's source-of-truth document on founder professional experience. Each founder has an HTML form (browser) and a plain-text mirror (paste-into-email). Pick whichever suits.

Why these briefs exist

Life Without Debt is not asking donors to trust an idea. It is asking them to trust two practitioners who have already spent 60 combined years working at the exact intersection the charity operates at, consumer credit (Laurence) and the medical industry (Lisa). This professional history is the credibility spine of every donor conversation, referrer MOU, grant application and board paper the charity produces.

These briefs capture that history in the founders' own words. The captured answers assemble into the source-of-truth document /founders-professional-witness, from which every downstream artefact quotes verbatim.

The two briefs

Lisa Hugo

30 years medical industry BD, sales & marketing

Six parts covering: professional history, the referrer network (named palliative-care / hospital-social-work / community-nursing / PHN relationships), LWD role preferences, professional witness at the illness / debt intersection, what she wants LWD to NOT say in her name, and logistics.

6 parts · ~45 min completion · auto-save every keystroke
Open interactive HTML form → Plain-text version (paste-into-email)

Laurence Hugo

30 years consumer credit mediation · ACL 387398 · CMS founder

Seven parts covering: professional practice, creditor-side relationships and hardship pathways, LWD role + Credit Mediation Services relationship (legal-sensitive), practitioner witness, what he wants LWD to NOT say (legal-sensitive), governance and Board-Appointed Advisors, and logistics.

7 parts · ~60 min completion · FLAG FOR DEEN option on legal-sensitive Qs
Open interactive HTML form → Plain-text version (paste-into-email)
Which format? Either works. The HTML form auto-saves every keystroke to your browser and has Print / Download-as-text / Email-answers buttons at the bottom. The plain-text version is best if you'd rather reply inline in email with answers under each ANSWER: line. Some questions in Laurence's brief allow FLAG FOR DEEN as a valid answer, that routes those items to the Legal Advisor's G2 review rather than trying to answer them here.

What happens next

Once both briefs are returned, the captured answers are assembled, verbatim, no paraphrase, into /founders-professional-witness. That document then moves through the 5-gate approval chain:

Live status of both briefs and all 10 gates (5 for the witness doc, 5 for the companion advisor charter) is tracked at /s63-response-tracker.

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