When the person whoknows how leaves, the know-how leaves too.
One machinist knows the fixture trick that keeps line 3 in tolerance. He’s 63, and there’s no SOP. When he retires you find out the way every plant does — a scrap spike and a six-month relearning curve. This radar scores every critical process on whether its know-how is actually captured, and forces SINGLE-POINT on the ones held by one head with nothing written down.
The retirement cliff is a documentation problem wearing a headcount problem’s clothes.
is all it takes. The critical procedure with no written SOP and one person who can run it is a single point of failure the org chart doesn’t show.
is a common relearning curve after an unplanned departure — rediscovered the expensive way, in scrap and downtime, because the know-how was never captured.
is where tribal knowledge goes to stay tribal. A draft nobody has run is a rumor, not an SOP — and this radar refuses to count it as one.
Every AI vendor is selling knowledge-management platforms and semantic search over documents you haven’t written yet. None of them tell you which undocumented process to capture first, before the person who holds it walks out the door. That is a triage problem, and it is exactly what this radar does.
Grade a process. Watch the gate release when you train a backup.
Live radar · evaluated 2026-06-30
Fix: Write & validate the SOP (reach depth 3), or qualify a 2nd operator
Critical, held by one operator, no verified SOP — the single-point trap. Train a second operator or reach a validated depth-3 SOP and it releases.
Scores a process, never a person. Deterministic and offline — your inputs, no benchmark multiplier.
The worked process is critical, held by one operator, with only a draft SOP — SINGLE-POINT, and flagged capture-first because the operator leaves in eight months. Train a second operator, or take the SOP to a validated depth 3, and the same process releases. The gate never fires on a well-staffed process, so it never cries wolf.
One command reads your process list and builds the capture queue.
$ python3 tk_radar.py sample_processes.csv --as-of 2026-06-30 ==================================================================== TRIBAL-KNOWLEDGE LOSS EXPOSURE RADAR - RedHub AI (TKR-099) Evaluation date: 2026-06-30 ==================================================================== Process: Line 3 fixture alignment Criticality / Depth / Operators : 3 / 2 / 1 Soonest departure : 8 mo Capture score : 43 <- single-point, departure <= 12 mo VERDICT : SINGLE-POINT Fix : Write & validate the SOP (reach depth 3), or qualify a 2nd operator Process: Line 3 fixture alignment (2nd op trained) Criticality / Depth / Operators : 3 / 2 / 2 Soonest departure : 8 mo Capture score : 43 VERDICT : THIN Fix : Deepen documentation toward a verified SOP Process: Furnace ramp recipe Criticality / Depth / Operators : 3 / 3 / 2 Soonest departure : 24 mo Capture score : 100 VERDICT : CAPTURED Process: Weekly CMM calibration Criticality / Depth / Operators : 2 / 1 / 1 Soonest departure : 40 mo Capture score : 21 <- single-point VERDICT : SINGLE-POINT Fix : Write & validate the SOP (reach depth 3), or qualify a 2nd operator Process: Palletizer jam clear Criticality / Depth / Operators : 1 / 0 / 3 Soonest departure : 36 mo Capture score : 0 VERDICT : UNDOCUMENTED Fix : Document this process - it is undocumented Process: Legacy PLC changeover Criticality / Depth / Operators : 2 / 0 / 1 Soonest departure : 5 mo Capture score : 0 <- single-point, departure <= 12 mo VERDICT : SINGLE-POINT Fix : Write & validate the SOP (reach depth 3), or qualify a 2nd operator Process: Shipping label reprint Criticality / Depth / Operators : 1 / 2 / 4 Soonest departure : 60 mo Capture score : 67 VERDICT : CAPTURED -------------------------------------------------------------------- PLANT KNOWLEDGE VERDICT : EXPOSED Capture first : Legacy PLC changeover (depth 0, 1 operator(s), departure 5 mo) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Scores a process, never a person. Deterministic and offline - your inputs, no benchmark multiplier. Not HR or legal advice and not grounds for any employment decision.
Stdlib-only Python. Same process, one vs. two operators, prints SINGLE-POINT then THIN — the gate doing work the capture score alone can’t. A well-staffed but undocumented process reads UNDOCUMENTED, not a false alarm. The workbook reproduces these exact verdicts, and the demo above computes the identical numbers — verified byte-for-byte on the shipped sample.
Three rules keep the radar honest.
Only a verified SOP counts
A document nobody else has run is a rumor. Capture is proven when someone other than the original holder executes the process from the document alone — depth 3, nothing less.
Single-point is an intersection
Critical, solo-held, and undocumented — all three at once. A well-staffed process is never a false single-point alarm. Either half clearing releases the gate.
Urgency orders, never softens
The departure horizon decides which single-point process to capture first. It sequences the queue; it never changes a verdict. The risk is structural, not calendar-driven.
A capture-triage radar for processes, not a scorecard for people.
- A deterministic, offline radar over the critical processes you already run.
- A capture queue — which undocumented process to write and validate first.
- The process-grain companion to the Key-Person Risk Audit’s person grain.
- It scores a process, never a person — no field for anyone’s performance.
- Not a knowledge-management platform, wiki, or document search — it triages, you capture.
- Not HR or legal advice and not grounds for any employment decision.
Anyone staring down a retirement cliff or a thin bench.
- Plant and operations managers with aging, tenured crews
- Continuous-improvement leads building an SOP capture program
- Quality and EHS teams who need procedures documented and validated
- Owners preparing a business for sale or succession
- Evaluating or ranking employees — it scores processes
- Plants that want a wiki instead of a capture priority
- Real-time monitoring — this grades a documentation posture
- Replacing the actual SOP writing — it tells you what to write first
Find the gap, then close it.
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