Dashframe – Governance Framework for Sport

Dashframe is the framework Cinderpoint SportsWorks uses with leagues, federations, and clubs when they need to see their sport as a structure, not a sequence of events. It is designed for situations where decisions taken now will lock in incentives, dependencies, and power for years.

Dashframe combines four components into a single process:

• BASE – a structural map of where decisions are made, how money and data move, and where drift is already visible.
• DASH I – sportswashing analysis: how external actors gain entry and legitimacy through the sport.
• DASH II – sportshandling analysis: how governance, formats, and remedies change once capture has begun.
• STABLE – a crisis cycle for managing active shocks without destroying the sport’s calendar or credibility.

How Dashframe is run in practice

1. Map. Using BASE, we document the real structure: who can say yes or no to what, where money and narrative come from, and what cannot be easily unwound.
2. Diagnose. We apply DASH I and DASH II to specific ownership, sponsorship, hosting, or structural questions to see how entry and post-entry dynamics will play out.
3. Stabilise. If a crisis is already live, we drop STABLE on top of the map instead of improvising ad hoc responses.
4. Act. The output is a short, concrete action map: conditions, red lines, and sequences, not a 200-page report.

What Dashframe gives decision-makers

• A structural risk map that is honest about dependence and capture, not just PR and compliance language.
• A way to explain difficult decisions to stakeholders without pretending that nothing is at stake.
• Realistic reform or defence paths, including options that involve saying “no” and options that involve hard conditions.
• A shared picture that boards, executives, regulators, and supporters can at least disagree about on the same terms.

Dashframe does not make decisions easy. It makes the structure visible so that decisions are at least made with open eyes.