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How the Tribal Knowledge Loss Exposure Radar gate works

Q: Can something score well on the How the Tribal Knowledge Loss Exposure gate works and still fail?

Yes. The weighted score is run past a worsen-only gate — the Single-point-of-failure — that can only make the verdict worse. In the worked sample it scores 43 out of 100 and still reads SINGLE-POINT, because documentation reaches a draft SOP - depth 2 of 3 - which on its own would read THIN at 43. But this is a line-down/safety-critical process held by exactly one qualified operator with no verified SOP and a departure horizon inside 12 months. The single-point gate forces SINGLE-POINT regardless of the 43.

Q: What is a worsen-only gate?

A dispositive rule that can only lower a verdict, never raise it. One fatal flaw overrides an otherwise-good score, because a single disqualifying gap shouldn't hide behind a high average. The tool also names the one thing to fix first — here, "Write & validate the SOP to depth 3, or qualify a 2nd operator - either one releases the gate.".

How the Tribal Knowledge Loss Exposure Radar scores one process's documentation depth against its criticality: a single-point gate forces a distinct SINGLE-POINT verdict — outside the score bands — when a line-critical process is held by one operator with a shallow SOP, which is how the sample scores 43 and still reads SINGLE-POINT.

How the gate works

This tool grades one process's know-how capture against its criticality. Each control is marked from your own evidence and weighted into a 0–100 score — and then the score is run past a gate that can only make the verdict worse.

The 2 weighted controls

Signal	Weight
Documentation depth	64
Criticality tolerance	36
Total	100

The verdict bands

CAPTURED

score 67 and up

THIN

score 34 to 66

UNDOCUMENTED

score below 34

SINGLE-POINT

criticality >= important, <=1 qualified operator, depth below a verified SOP

Single-point-of-failure · worsen-only

A process rated important-or-higher criticality, held by one or zero backup-qualified operators, without a validated depth-3 SOP is forced to SINGLE-POINT regardless of how much of it got captured.

In the worked sample it scores 43 out of 100 and still reads SINGLE-POINT — Documentation reaches a draft SOP - depth 2 of 3 - which on its own would read THIN at 43. But this is a line-down/safety-critical process held by exactly one qualified operator with no verified SOP and a departure horizon inside 12 months. The single-point gate forces SINGLE-POINT regardless of the 43. The one thing to fix first: Write & validate the SOP to depth 3, or qualify a 2nd operator - either one releases the gate..

Common questions

Can something score well on the How the Tribal Knowledge Loss Exposure gate works and still fail?

Yes. The weighted score is run past a worsen-only gate — the Single-point-of-failure — that can only make the verdict worse. In the worked sample it scores 43 out of 100 and still reads SINGLE-POINT, because documentation reaches a draft SOP - depth 2 of 3 - which on its own would read THIN at 43. But this is a line-down/safety-critical process held by exactly one qualified operator with no verified SOP and a departure horizon inside 12 months. The single-point gate forces SINGLE-POINT regardless of the 43.

What is a worsen-only gate?

A dispositive rule that can only lower a verdict, never raise it. One fatal flaw overrides an otherwise-good score, because a single disqualifying gap shouldn't hide behind a high average. The tool also names the one thing to fix first — here, "Write & validate the SOP to depth 3, or qualify a 2nd operator - either one releases the gate.".

Scores a process, never a person. Deterministic and offline - your inputs, no benchmark multiplier.

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