False Consensus
False Alignment
Everyone uses the same words. Everyone says yes. But each person at the table has a different picture of what the decision actually means, what it requires, and what success looks like. False Alignment is the structural risk that sits beneath apparent consensus, invisible until the moment execution begins and incompatible models collide.
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4 categories flagged. Market and regulatory: zero spread. Capability, competitive, prior experience: 25% divergence. The team agreed where it was safe to agree.
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Surface responses align perfectly across all 10 questions. That is the vocabulary layer. The assumption layer is one screen away.
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Where alignment is genuine and where it is superficial, at the level of assumptions, not just language.