FLOW C cannot exist at large scale: When organizational weight grows to large scale, FLOW C reclassifies to FLOW D immediately. The prescription to establish meaning before acting does not survive scale escalation. Scale alone drives FLOW D: Large organizational weight means FLOW D regardless of complexity. A simple, well-understood situation that requires enterprise-scale response is FLOW D, not FLOW A. When debating D vs S — use D: FLOW A and B differ only in scale (both low complexity). FLOW S requires extraordinary conditions that fall entirely outside normal organizational playbooks — max 1-2 per analysis.
The definition the product enforces, read from the same code the methodology page renders.
Three rules keep the classes honest. FLOW C cannot exist at large scale. Scale alone drives FLOW D. FLOW A and B differ only in scale, and a read torn between D and S uses D. Every classification a page shows was tested against them.
When organizational weight grows to large scale, FLOW C reclassifies to FLOW D immediately. The prescription to establish meaning before acting does not survive scale escalation.
Test: Is this situation growing? If yes — at what point does the organizational weight become large-scale?
Large organizational weight means FLOW D regardless of complexity. A simple, well-understood situation that requires enterprise-scale response is FLOW D, not FLOW A.
Test: Does this require board-level authority, major resource commitment, or cross-organizational coordination? If yes — it is FLOW D regardless of how simple it seems.
FLOW A and B differ only in scale (both low complexity). FLOW S requires extraordinary conditions that fall entirely outside normal organizational playbooks — max 1-2 per analysis.
Test: For D vs S: do normal organizational playbooks apply at all? If yes — use D.
The weight of the decision an event forces on a party: two axes, five classes, three rules. A classification is displayed only where the scan earns it.
Every grade here is assigned by the same rules on every scan, and the methodology page renders those rules from the code that enforces them.