From a licensed way of working to a machine that runs it, and back to a count.
One interface, published on the same terms to every maker, kit company and fleet owner — including the one owned by the same group Tacit Source is part of.
Five steps, from the registry to the invoice.
- 01Licensed from the corpusEven Steven licenses an admitted, built way of working into the corpus Tacit Source holds. Nothing reaches the registry that was not built from a hand's own admitted sessions, under their own consent.
- 02Released against a published interfaceA named way of working is released to a machine through the release interface — the same specification any maker, kit company or fleet owner is given, cross-licensed on the same terms.
- 03Chosen by a person, on the dayBefore a job, a person on the crew chooses whose way of working runs, by name. The choice is the authorization the machine may not move without.
- 04Counted from the same actThat choice starts the count. Tacit Source's count line and Even Steven's ledger read the same record, so the clearance and the invoice cannot be adjusted apart from each other.
- 05Exposed back to the hand, at sourceThe hand sees the count line that names them, directly from the system that wrote it — not a figure Even Steven retypes on their behalf.
Published, not proprietary to any one maker.
Tacit Source's release interface and count interface are built and tested against each other — closed on both sides, with fixtures both sides reproduce byte for byte. The specification itself is not yet public: it is held back until counsel has the patent particulars and any recipient signs an NDA. What is ruled is the intent — publish it, so any machine, any maker, same interface, same terms, proves the neutrality of the registry rather than asserting it.
A registry that only its own family can build against is not a registry. A registry published on identical terms to a competitor is what makes it trustworthy.
What each one actually does.
Build to the interface
Build a machine that accepts a released way of working and reports its count, against the published specification, on the same terms as any other maker.
Supply the release path
Build the physical and software path that lets an existing machine accept a released way of working without becoming a new machine.
License a way of working
Choose a named way of working for a job, on your own machine, and pay for the hours it runs — on the same record the hand can check.
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