Providing an accountability sink.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_Game_(book)

Bringing information to the attention of the C-level that grunt workers weren‘t able to, because they don‘t have access, middle management censors it, or people below feel it‘s too risky for no reward.

Borrowing your watch to tell you the time.

Not being OpEx. Taking blame. Lending credibility.