The Six Forces Shield, in buyer order.
Shield is how the Six Forces Framework becomes a deliverable: what you receive, how it is produced, and where it is going.
The Shield Assessment Report and a Risk Profile Score.
Shield Assessment Report
A thirteen-section analytical report documenting force severity, multiplier exposure, milestone achievement, mitigant strength, and the resulting Risk Profile Score for the project under assessment.
Risk Profile Score
The score moves through five bands, from maximum exposure to delivery confidence, providing a shared language for what the parties are committing to and under what conditions.
In an advisory engagement, the bands serve as the structure around which capital tranches, permit approvals, lease commitments, and policy incentives can be sequenced, retiring risk milestone by milestone rather than committing to a static go-or-no-go assessment at a single point in time.
The Six Forces methodology.
The Report is produced under the methodology suite documented in the Six Forces Assessment Technical Specification; the methodology used for any particular Assessment is the version in effect at the time the engagement is contracted. Six forces, fifteen Force Multipliers, and 81 milestones (22 material). The same catalog drives Developer Risk Management, only the output differs. See the framework →
Shield OS, the SaaS platform.
Shield is a proprietary tool under active development. HampTex is building the Six Forces Shield methodology into Shield OS, a software-as-a-service platform that delivers consistent, milestone-verified project assessments at scale. A working prototype is built and available to demonstrate. It automates the Six Forces analytical workflow, supports customer Workspaces for ongoing project monitoring, and provides the analytical infrastructure for portfolio-scale surveillance across multiple projects simultaneously.
Shield OS does not change the methodology; it scales the delivery infrastructure. Until the platform is generally available, HampTex delivers the Six Forces Assessment through a documented manual process that follows the identical methodology, with senior analytical leadership applying the framework to each engagement. The software productizes a process the firm already runs by hand today.
Shield and DRM
Shield is the independent, scored product. Developer Risk Management is the same methodology run operationally for the developer, with no score and no Shield report. The two are distinct deliverables under the firm's Master Services Agreement. Compare →