Every Section 166 serves three masters — the bank, the skilled person and the FCA — and the fastest way to lose all three is to give each a different number. The ACON delivery system is built around a single golden-source workbook: one dataset that every report, dashboard and board pack reads from and writes to.

Around that golden source sit six plug-and-play workflow trackers — RFIs, interviews and workshops, case builds, sample testing, findings and BU checks, and report responses — each running on six SLA-timed steps with same-day breach alerts. One refresh updates every output together: dashboard, findings heat map and scorecard move as one, with no re-keying and no reconciliation meetings.

Complexity is revealed progressively. A case handler sees a three-field queue; the programme director sees six phases; internal audit sees everything, read-only. Same source, different shell — structure without weight.

The programme itself runs to two stages and six gates, from Requirement Notice to closure, with sign-off chains that make every submission audit-ready before it leaves the building. That is what lets a bank-side programme pivot when the skilled person's focus shifts: the foundation is already planted.

Read the full walkthrough of the system, with the workflow and gate diagrams, at: https://www.aconconsulting.co.uk/inside-the-system

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