Talk to PARRY before you take it to the room.
Pressure-test the decision before the room does.
PARRY is a private decision-rehearsal workspace for CEOs and founders facing high-stakes meetings, narratives, and trade-offs.
What PARRY actually does
You bring the decision and the contextual elements
PARRY challenges assumptions, risks, and trade-offs
You walk in sharper, clearer, and harder to shake
The knowledge-base behind the challenge
PARRY's challenge logic is grounded in live governance intelligence — updated weekly from the world's leading boards, regulators, and governance research *.
Boards under pressure: governance trends shaping 2026
McKinsey & Company · Mar 15, 2026
The decision-quality gap most CEOs miss
Harvard Business Review · Feb 28, 2026
Boardroom performance benchmarks across APAC
Deloitte Insights · Feb 10, 2026
* Source: 250+ governance articles across McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC, HBR, WEF, MAS and more.
Browse knowledge-base →When leaders use it
Before a board meeting
Prepare for the questions that haven't been asked yet.
Before an investor conversation
Pre-empt the pushback. Stress-test the narrative.
Before a major strategic decision
Surface trade-offs you may have framed away.
To stress-test a narrative
Find the soft spots before someone else does.
To expose blind spots before the room does
Walk in knowing what you didn't know.
A simple workflow, not a black box
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Step 1
Context
You describe the decision, the room, and what's at stake.
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Step 2
Challenge loop
PARRY surfaces assumptions, second-order risks, and blind spots.
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Step 3
Sharper output
Reframed issue · Second-order risks · Trade-offs exposed · Tighter narrative.
Not generic AI. Not a board portal. Not advice.
Built for what can't leave the room.
Board-grade challenge logic
Built on 250+ governance intelligence articles. Challenges like a prepared board member, not a search engine.
Perspectives, not recommendations
PARRY exposes trade-offs and surfaces what you haven't considered. You make the call.
Private decision rehearsal
A dedicated workspace for stress-testing decisions before the room sees them.
No training on your inputs
Your sessions are never used to train any model. Direct encrypted API connection — never the public ChatGPT front-end.
TLS 1.3 · GDPR · EU residency
All data encrypted in transit. EU-regulated infrastructure. Full data rights: access, deletion, portability.
Built and governed by Lyoen & Partners
Hong Kong-registered. English law and HKIAC arbitration. You decide. PARRY challenges. You own the outcome.
Why this exists
The pace of decisions, the volume of data, and the complexity of the stakes have grown exponentially. The space leaders have to think before deciding has not. Today's CEO is expected to read more, decide faster, and be wrong less — often alone, and often without a single private space to rehearse the hardest questions before the room asks them.
Decision readiness has stopped being a luxury. It has become the work itself. But the practice of rehearsing high-stakes decisions still gets a fraction of the attention given to the decisions themselves.
PARRY exists to close that gap.
Who built this
Sylvain Lyoen
Founder, Lyoen & Partners
PARRY was built by Sylvain Lyoen, founder of Lyoen & Partners. Three decades leading complex transformations across North America, Europe, the Gulf, and Southeast Asia — most recently as Director, Agile Program Management at Publicis Sapient (Riyadh and Paris), and previously with Deloitte, Capgemini, and KPMG. Notable engagements include a €32M Telco-to-TechCo transformation in the GCC, a €11Bn B2B omnichannel rollout across EU and North America, and a 55-FTE digital factory built from zero in Dallas.
PARRY is the sparring partner he wished had existed in every boardroom he sat in.
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