Decide / Act // The Roster
The artifact the convening produces

The Roster.

The convening, rendered as instrument. Sixty-four operators, their exposures, their matches, and the 90-day commitments each has put on the record.

A conference produces a feeling. A report produces pages. The Roster produces a working record: one internal document an operator can act on the week after it lands.

It is published once, one week after the live sessions, and republished at each quarterly Pulse with updates, deletions, and new entries. It is distributed only to operators inside the cohort, and is not positioned to become public. The entries below are the format we actually use.

/ ShapeEach entry.

Every entry is a compressed picture of one operator's position in the field. Eight rows. No narrative sections, no bios.

The Roster · entry exampleillustrative · fictional
OperatorEvelyn Reyes
LocalityMaricopa County, Arizona
Exposurethird-generation cattle operation; state water-rights litigation pending
Lanecounty-level opposition to the state water-compact rewrite
Offerag-law litigation; state capitol access; a 40-rancher coalition
Askcommunications operator fluent with rural audiences; coordination with two upstream counties by August
Matched withKovac (OH farm policy), Whitfield (MT rangeland)
Commitment→ Coalition letter to state AG by Aug 15; coalition testimony at the September hearing

/ PrivacyThe four promises.

Operators submit Briefs with real information because the handling is real. Four things are true about every Roster entry:

01

Internal only.

The Roster is distributed to the cohort. It is never published outside the network, shared with press, or mined by third parties, including at the quarterly republish.

02

Pseudonymity on request.

If your fight requires it, your Operator row can be a handle. Locality can be regional rather than civic. Exposure and Lane still have to be specific enough to match against.

03

You control your entry.

Revise at any Pulse. Request removal at any time. Pods can opt to keep the cross-references without the originating entry if a member rotates out.

04

No second list.

There is no "observers" or "supporters" tier, no marketing mailing list derived from the Roster, and no list of rejected vouches kept anywhere. The Roster is the record. The Pulse subscription is separate.

/ LineageWhat it is modeled on.

The format is modeled on a situational assessment NLI produced from staff contributions in a previous cadence. That one exercise, done once, showed us the instrument is more useful than the narrative. Decide / Act is that exercise, run across a cohort.

/ UseWhat operators do with it.

The week after distribution is when the Roster moves fastest. People open it, find their matches, and reach out. Pods that formed during the Sessions have their working channel. Cross-pod matches begin. By the Pulse, most entries carry evidence: a call taken, a project split, a capability moved, a fight won or lost, a commitment met or not.

The Roster that republishes at the first Pulse is the first version with weight. By the fourth, the network is operating on its own record.

Earn your entry.

Submission is the Brief. The Brief is the price. Every accepted Brief becomes an entry.