Communications guidance is counsel's attachment that turns a cost review into exposure. When Legal starts policing what gets written down, the meeting was never about the cloud bill. In Redundant, the appearance of communications guidance on a cost-review deck is the signal that the meeting has become something else — a restructuring dressed as a review.

How the term evolves

Redundant: The communications guidance is the tell — the artifact that reveals the acquisition is no longer a rumor.

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