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Your mission runs on one clock. Your funding, your board’s authority and the attention of everyone you answer to run on three faster ones. Nothing here is underfunded — it is out of phase, and that is a different problem with a different fix.
One forty-year mission, and the 63 shorter cycles it has to survive. Each ochre block is one funding round, one term of authority, one year of attention. ▶ Every one of them is a moment the mission can be stopped, redirected or forgotten — and none of them is scheduled around the mission.
Six things an institution has to keep alive. Whatever is going wrong for you is one of these — and each one fails in a way you can recognise before you can measure it. Teal dashed is what should happen; ochre is what does.
Most research institutes stop at the diagnosis. Each step below has to produce evidence the next one can use.
Capital that has to come back is the hardest claim to fake. Every return date was published before the money moved, which is what makes this a test rather than a testimonial.
$17,500 has returned, the first tranche 77 days after deployment. That is evidence the capital comes back — not a measurement of how much does, which needs a completed cycle. The first cycle closes at $25,000 when the final tranche lands; the second runs to 1 December.
Each was diagnosed against the framework rather than selected to flatter it — which is why the write-ups say where the analogy stops.
The corpus is large. These are the five or six doors that actually get used.
Research, deployments and appointments. The date leads, because on a page this long a reader needs to know the site is alive.
Everything published here is open access and always will be. The third exists because applying a framework to one institution is different work from writing it.