Intent Intent
What the estate is for, and what must stay true.
Approach
How stewardship is structured
Plain language first. The Quantified Stewardship Model sits underneath as tags and provenance, revealed when a steward needs the deeper grammar.
Three questions
Purpose asks what we are trying to keep true. Awareness asks what we can sense and remember. Action asks what we are authorized to do, and how.
Purpose Awareness Action
Eight operational layers
Layers are annotations on records, not page decoration. On the Ashford walkthrough they appear as pills beside systems, runbooks, and signals, each with a plain-language gloss nearby.
Governance Governance
Who may decide, escalate, and reverse irreversible actions.
Intake Intake
How work, signals, and requests enter the record.
Memory Memory
Documents, decisions, and history that persist.
Practice Practice
Runbooks and routines staff can perform without heroics.
Observation Observation
Sensors, rounds, and what the estate can sense.
Signal Signal
Compound alerts when observation meets memory.
Adaptation Adaptation
What changes after incidents and seasonal drift.
Ontology (what is stewarded)
Things and contexts, needs and values, roles and relationships. These three buckets keep the field dictionary stable when properties differ in size.