Does Authority Ledger use a benchmark or AI?

No. The result uses visible deterministic rules and only the user's inputs. It is not compared with other customers.

When should I take the Citation ledger into a workshop?

When the unresolved work requires team challenge, evidence reconciliation, ownership, and a committed organizational decision.

Core strategy instrument · Ledger

Authority Ledger

Q: What does Authority Ledger produce?

A versioned Citation ledger with visible reasoning, evidence status, next action, review date, and structured exports.

Turn public mentions and citations into an editable authority record, not a vanity score.

Start with my inputs

No account. No email gate. The primary result and exports are free.

Work locally. Structured inputs calculate in this browser. Do not enter confidential, regulated, privileged, customer-identifying, or personal information.

Definition and worked example

See the method before entering your own evidence.

Who should use it: See where your thinking is being reproduced, whether you receive credit, and which proof action matters next.

Decision basis: A citation ledger classifies public reproductions of an idea by attribution, independence, freshness, source type, and retrieval. Credited share equals credited records divided by all reviewed records.

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Clearly fictional input

Public source or link: https://example.com/strategy-review
Source type: Media
Published date: 2026-07-14
Attribution: credited
Idea or framework reproduced: Relevance debt
Source ownership: independent

This sample runs through the same method and artifact structure as your own work.

Structured work

Build the citation ledger

Every field affects the result or the working artifact. Add up to 20 records.

Ungated result

Your citation ledger

Method 1.0.0 · Input schema 1.0.0
Artifact · Due · Review

Decision state

Input confidence

Strongest evidence

Riskiest input

Do within seven days

Limits

Import a prior JSON Download blank template Watch the 90-second walkthrough

Carry the work forward

Create a Workshop Pre-Read

The default pre-read includes versions, result, open questions, and requested outcome. Your raw working text stays out unless you deliberately include it.

Include my strategic working text

Where the free tool stops

The artifact makes the issue visible. The engagement resolves the organizational decision.

Petrichor helps the team reconcile disagreement, challenge evidence, assign ownership, and leave with a committed decision. You will not be asked to recreate this artifact.

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Transparent method

How this instrument reaches a result

A citation ledger classifies public reproductions of an idea by attribution, independence, freshness, source type, and retrieval. Credited share equals credited records divided by all reviewed records.

See the fields and decision basis

Public source or link: required input used in the result and artifact.
Source type: required input used in the result and artifact.
Published date: required input used in the result and artifact.
Attribution: required input used in the result and artifact.
Idea or framework reproduced: required input used in the result and artifact.
Source ownership: required input used in the result and artifact.
Found in machine retrieval: optional input used in the result and artifact.
Uses original Petrichor data: optional input used in the result and artifact.
Evidence owner: optional input used in the result and artifact.

Questions about Authority Ledger

What do I leave with?

A versioned citation ledger with visible reasoning, evidence status, next action, review date, and structured exports.

Does the result use a benchmark or AI?

No. The result uses the visible deterministic rules for this instrument and only the inputs you provide. It is not compared with other customers.

When does the paid work begin?

After the artifact. Petrichor helps the team challenge evidence, reconcile disagreement, assign ownership, and commit to the organizational decision without making you repeat the free work.

The method is versioned. No cross-customer benchmark is used. Review the full method and change history, the relevant plain-language answer, or the permanent Tool Trust Charter.

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