Institutions of One

Edition 4 · working instrument

Can your institution survive your absence?

Eight operating controls. One transparent score. No personality quiz and no hidden weighting.

01Documentation

Contracts, scopes and change records are current.

02Rights trail

Ownership, licenses and permissions are recorded item by item.

03Revenue concentration

Income is not dangerously dependent on one payer or platform.

04Runway

Cash and committed income cover foreseeable operating needs.

05Source files

Editable masters, exports and dependencies are retrievable.

06Approvals

Client, creator and counsel decisions are attributable and dated.

07Accessibility

Content has captions, alt text, transcripts and usable interaction.

08Continuity

Another trusted person could operate or recover the institution.

How to use it

A score is only useful when it changes the work.

01 · Answer honestly

Score the system that exists today, not the process you intend to build.

02 · Attach proof

Pair each “documented” or “tested” claim with a contract, ledger, source file, approval or recovery test.

03 · Repeat

Save the JSON, assign the weakest controls and rerun after the fixes land.