Use case
Family Office Relationship Succession
The principal’s network is the office’s alpha. Recording trust without expropriating the rolodex.
The intent, as typed
“Map which of the principal’s relationships have produced outcomes in the last three years, and where authority would be lost in transition.”
wants: cap/family-office · cap/capital
A family office’s edge is rarely its models — it is the principal’s forty years of access. Succession planning talks about assets and governance and quietly skips the asset that actually differentiates the office, because nobody has a way to record trust without demanding the contacts.
Magician records the shape of the graph — domains, strength, outcomes sealed over years — while the principal’s edges stay theirs. The next generation inherits routability and a verifiable history of what each relationship has produced: a consented handover instead of a eulogy for a network.
The same architecture serves the office’s daily work: deal flow that arrives through trusted paths ranks itself, and what-am-I-missing surfaces latent fits across holdings — the kind of connection a great CIO makes twice a year by luck, run continuously.