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Elite | Football Governance

Your IFR file, assembled — board-ready with every gap owned.

One fixed-price Sprint — £7,500 +VAT (test) — for a board-ready evidence pack in 3–4 weeks, every gap owned and every exception named. That is roughly 25 hours of a senior solicitor's time, spent once, for assembly instead of hours. Your team's whole job: five answers and one document.

Shown throughout on fictional Harbour Athletic data — no real club record. Prices marked TEST are offer tests, quoted only after a document sample and a short discovery call; solicitor rates are published figures and the hour arithmetic is ESTIMATE.

1 · Start here — five answers, one document

If the IFR application is sitting with two overstretched people, this is the whole ask. Everything after it — chasing, checking, assembling — is our job.

Showing 5 of 5 answers + one document — your whole job.

Your five answers + one document

This is the whole of your team's job. Everything after this — chasing, checking, assembling — is ours. It files straight into the live work queue below; nothing counts until a named human reviews it. Fictional demo club only.

Resolving live requirement rows… submit unlocks when bound (max 10s, then an honest error — never a dead loader). In a hurry? File the same five answers + document now on the evidence page.


Prefer the full workspace? Open the evidence inbox — upload, link or request, with per-version notes.

2 · What you get — a pack your board can sign, gaps owned

Narratives, evidence list with version references, open exceptions, review record and sign-off checklist — plus editable registers and a read-only export. The real pack artifact from the seeded demo story (Harbour Athletic (fictional demo club); source: IFR Provisional Licence Application Guidance Published guidance, version as checked Sep 2026); synthetic render below, live hash-bound snapshot on the review page. Export is not submission — your board approves, you submit, the receipt is recorded.

Governance evidence pack — fixed template v1

Club: Harbour Athletic (fictional demo club)

Generated: 2026-09-18 (synthetic render)

Scoped requirement / evidence summary

See evidence index (version-specific references).

Ownership & control (IFR ownership thresholds)

  • Fictional Holder Ltd — 75% (checked Sep 2026)

Funding & source of funds (IFR funding disclosure)

  • Fictional loan v1 (funding sufficiency excluded — labelled gap, not assessed)

Governance & board (IFR governance arrangements)

  • Fictional board, 3 directors (terms v1)

Financials (facts only, no forecast) (IFR financial plan inputs)

  • Facts only — no forecast, no sufficiency certificate

Legal & contracts (IFR supporting documents)

  • Ground lease fictional v3

Remediation & open exceptions (carried into pack + next review)

  • Notice deadline Unknown — human confirmation required — owner J. Whitaker, due 2026-10-03, status open (carried to next review)
  • Funding sufficiency excluded — labelled gap, not assessed — owner J. Whitaker, due 2026-10-03, status open (carried to next review)

Changes, risk / actions, due dates, decisions needed

See queue and change log excerpts attached at generation time.

Source versions (preserved render inputs)

  • IFR Provisional Guidance (checked Sep 2026)
  • Ground lease fictional v3
  • Funding letter fictional v1

Open exceptions

  • Notice deadline Unknown — human confirmation required
  • Funding sufficiency excluded — labelled gap, not assessed

Review record + sign-off checklist

Named reviews required. Internal approval is not IFR acceptance.

Capture a fixed snapshot first — nothing to export yet. Exporting a pack is never filing it.

Board pack — internal approval, not IFR acceptance.

No automated submission. The club decides what to approve, submit and publish.

Capture + download the live pack · Open the weekly digest (prepared, not sent) · Replay the dossier demonstration

3 · What you buy — one reviewed module, one board-reviewable pack

A Sprint ends with one of these — “One reviewed evidence module” or “One board-reviewable pack” — accepted by a named human, decided by your board.

  • One reviewed evidence module

    Supported entity/role map, ownership/personnel facts and draft descriptions inside the agreed perimeter — every unresolved point flagged to a named reviewer, nothing silently settled. Done when the reviewer accepts it, not when the AI drafts it.

    Open the module surface (readiness)

  • One board-reviewable pack

    Indexed handover/approval pack: narratives, evidence manifest, version-specific references, open exceptions, review record, sign-off checklist, editable registers + read-only export. Done when the club board — not Elite — approves it.

    Open the pack surface (review + pack)

Open the module surface (counts, not scores) · Open review + pack

4 · Why it holds up — 390 checks across the actual IFR forms

401 fields across the 8 core IFR forms (playbook: ~390) + 12 live counsel gates (+ 6 proposed, reference-only until counsel sign-off — 18 combined) + every mistake written down as a tracked finding. Counts are live from the product, not slides.

The 8 core IFR forms, counted live. Full corpus: 21 checklists incl. assumptions, governance, sanctions, enforcement mirrors.
ChecklistFieldsOwner
CL-ANNEX-A-PORTAL (M3/F7): Provisional application portal questions (Annex A S1/S2/S3)86Club Secretary (fictional: J. Whitaker)
CL-SBP-SHEETS (M3/F7): SBP forecasting template sheets 1–4 + accounting principles118Finance Owner (fictional: S. Okafor)
CL-SBP-ASSUMPTIONS (M3/F7): SBP assumptions guidance (6 families)15Finance Owner (fictional: S. Okafor)
CL-OWNER-FORM (M3/F7): ODSE owner application form S1–S7 (section 28)105Club Sponsor (fictional: A. Mensah)
CL-MANAGER-FORM (M3/F7): ODSE senior-manager application form S1–S6 (section 29)33Club Secretary (fictional: J. Whitaker)
CL-ANNEX-B (F5/F6): Corporate governance statement gates (Annex B + Rules A2)12Board Chair (fictional: R. Alvarez)
CL-ANNEX-CD (F8): Annual declaration fields (Annex C) + standalone attestation (Annex D)15Club Secretary (fictional: J. Whitaker)
CL-RULES-GATES (F5): Licensing Rules approval and filing gates (A1–A4, C2–C5, D1–D2, Rules 5/9/10)17Club Secretary (fictional: J. Whitaker)

Tricky steps stop at a named human — e.g. gate 1 (source-of-wealth), gate 2 (honesty/integrity closed list), gate 5 (ground disposal/relocation). Full list with bound duty rows: Open requirements (checklists + gates) · See gates inside the ODSE wizard.

What we have caught — demo rows, labelled

Showing 3 of 3 record-of-work issues from the demo story (3 evidence items, 4 queue rows, 2 key dates).

  • Ground-lease notice deadline: Unknown, not guessed (fictional demo row)

    Caught by: Field checklist CL-RULES-GATES + ground-record review.

    Trail: EV-101 (fictional lease v3) → ACT-012 owner J. Whitaker → KD-02 stays standing with a file-finding path. Expiry and notice deadline kept as separate fields..

    Counts: 1 evidence item · 1 action · 1 key date · 0 invented dates.

    Inspect the dossier trail

  • Funding letter is not a forecast (fictional demo row)

    Caught by: Evidence-index consistency review (named reviewer).

    Trail: EV-102 (fictional letter v1) → ACT-015 overdue with S. Okafor → REV-020 in review with N. Rahbar Sato → DEC-003 labelled gap (sufficiency excluded)..

    Counts: 1 evidence item · 1 overdue action · 1 in-review item · 1 labelled gap.

    Open the evidence inbox

  • Board minutes: linked, never pretended-held (fictional demo row)

    Caught by: Holding discipline (linked = metadata only).

    Trail: EV-103 requested from custodian J. Whitaker — display reference only, bytes never fetched, held, or read until the club grants access or uploads a copy..

    Counts: 1 linked item · 0 bytes held · literal shown.

    See linked handling

Live gate states (open/total, never a rating): 12 gates tied to duty rows, e.g. “Serious-criminal-conduct source-of-wealth test” → REQ-OWN-04.

5 · Humans decide — AI drafts, your board approves

Routine assembly rides the AI track — drafts, checks, assembly. Anything needing judgment waits for a named human and stays open with an owner until they clear it. Every AI draft is attributed; nothing counts until a person accepts it.

Named reviewers (fictional demo story)

  • N. Rahbar SatoElite reviewer (evidence + pack verification)
  • J. WhitakerClub Secretary (fictional) — custodian + confirmer
  • S. OkaforFinance Owner (fictional) — model + funding facts
  • A. MensahClub Sponsor (fictional) — accountable decisions
  • R. AlvarezBoard Chair (fictional) — governance sign-off
  • T. EllisSupporter Liaison Officer (fictional) — fan evidence

Acceptance

Fictional illustration — not product data: 34 reviews recorded · 31 accepted first pass · 3 returned with what-to-fix + due date. Shows what 'AI drafts, humans decide' means: every AI draft needs a named-human accept before it counts. Real acceptance data only after paid delivery.

Open the verification checklist + sign-off · Open the expert review queue

6 · Fixed price vs solicitor hours

Offer figures are TESTS (quoted only after a document sample + discovery). Solicitor/account figures are ACTUALS per W7 market/pricing. Day/hour arithmetic is ESTIMATES.

Sprint £7,500 +VAT (test) vs solicitor-day-rate math

  • J Preedy (sports, ACTUAL): trainee £150/hr, solicitor £225/hr, senior solicitor £300/hr +VAT
  • Constantine Law (ACTUAL, Jul 2025): solicitor £250–325, associate £350, senior associate £375–395, partner £525/hr +VAT
  • J Preedy compliance band 15–25 hrs (ACTUAL band) → £3,375–£7,500 +VAT at those rates (arithmetic, not a quote)
  • £7,500 ≈ 25 hrs at £300/hr (senior solicitor) ≈ 3 working days (ESTIMATE)
  • £7,500 ≈ 14 hrs at £525/hr (partner) ≈ under 2 working days (ESTIMATE)
  • Sprint buys a reviewed module + handover pack in 3–4 weeks; the same budget buys days of solicitor time, not a finished pack (TEST vs ESTIMATE)

Desk retier vs admin cost

  • Championship / PL: £6.5k/mo ≤30h (test)
  • League One / League Two: £4k/mo ≤20h (test)
  • National League: £2.5k/mo ≤12h (test)
  • Desk £4,000/mo ≤20 combined hrs (test) → £200/hr effective when fully used (TEST arithmetic)
  • £200/hr sits below the £225–£525/hr solicitor actuals above — guiding/reviewing costs less than doing (ESTIMATE comparison)
  • £48k/yr ≈ 1.2× a Leeds-size audit fee (£40,000 ACTUAL); ≈ 36% of Cambridge Utd's legal & professional line (£132,888 ACTUAL)
  • Hire/admin comparison is validated in discovery (W7 Q6: current audit, legal, CoSec spend) — no hire figure quoted here (TEST, not a promise)

See the scope snapshot (landing) · Start an intake above — quoted only after a document sample + discovery. Proposal contact: reply through the proposal pack that brought you here.

Who we are

We are Arash Shahrokhi and Navid Rahbar Sato, the founders of Elite. At Dentons, we personally implemented board and committee processes and risk registers and led ownership and source-of-funds due diligence. This is a new sector practice for us — we do not claim previous UK-football mandates. We never show scores or verdicts; the IFR decides licences, we assemble the evidence, and work needing a solicitor goes to a specialist.

Roadmap — not live

  • LANE: per-version annotation threads (reviews attach today).
  • LANE: Google Workspace picker first, edit-back after pilot OAuth.
  • LANE: web change-tracker surface (engine live).
  • LANE: attestation object for declaration cycles.
  • NEXT: task-sync connectors with the club's PM stack (Asana/Monday/Planner) — connector specs, owner OAuth apps.