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Glossary/Proximity

Direct (proximity)

The event acts on the party itself.

The product’s working definition.

How to read it

When Direct appears on a page

The event acts on this party itself: its assets, its people, its contracts, its licence to operate. A direct intersection is where the response options are most concrete and the watch signals move first.

The family

Proximity

How directly an event reaches a party, on the intersection cards an Event Scan or an Entity Scan renders.

Close (proximity)The event acts on something the party directly depends on or faces: a counterparty, a supplier, a regulator, a rival.Affected (proximity)The party is materially exposed through a channel the record supports.Peripheral (proximity)The event reaches the party's field, not its situation.Distant (proximity)The party is in the same world and not exposed.
Where you will see it

On these pages

Kinds of research that print it
Event →Scenario →Entity →
Surfaces
Every intersection card
The rubric

The whole grading vocabulary, on one page

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.

How the grades work →The whole glossary