You take some time to review the persona you had created earlier. ![[elliot-cinder-persona-card.svg|EX-04, persona card]] Risk Analyst. The title is broad enough to avoid scrutiny, yet specific enough to belong. You scroll through the notes you compiled, paying closer attention now to tone rather than content. Short sentences where necessary. Careful qualifiers. Nothing absolute. Nothing that suggests authority beyond what the role can reasonably support. He does not rush conclusions. He raises observations. He frames concerns as possibilities rather than problems. He leaves space for others to step in, to take ownership of decisions that feel like their own. You sit back slightly. That part matters more than anything else. You read the persona over and over until it stops to feel like something out of your imagination and starts to feel like an actual analyst who possessed those characteristics. When you feel it is enough, you make your first advance. [[Write Isabella acknowledging the firm's position]]