Reporting layer of Sovereign Provenance
The Brand Width Index
Select a node, a crossing, and one return. The reading stays on this device. This cycle does not publish a score.
Open the readingA brand is not only what it says. Width is how far identity, behavior, and impact actually show up. Sovereign Provenance logs the origin and lineage of that movement. The Brand Width Index is the reporting surface: organizational positionings stay distinct, their operating impact stays attributable, and the value that emerges reports back across the long arc. Once a year, Modern Ancients reads its own portfolio through that lens so the ecosystem can see coherence, gaps, and where stewardship must concentrate next.
Annual cycle
2026
First public cycle. The instrument is operable. Published scores wait on a completed reading.
The Brand Width Index is not a dashboard of invented scores. It is the yearly field reading of the portfolio. Each cycle names the nodes under review, the dimensions that bind them, and the invitation to enter the next reading.
Counterpart instrument
Resilience by Design
Brand Width asks what the work made possible, and for how long. Resilience by Design asks whether the organization can create and adapt under pressure. They compound. They do not collapse into one score.
Brand Width Index
What did this investment make possible, and for how long?
Resilience by Design
Can this organization create and adapt when conditions change?
An open framework
Organizational Health Evidence
Individuals and organizations keep the workshop. They may leave it private, or they may explicitly opt in to an anonymized finding. Over time, those findings can form one evidence layer inside the Brand Width Index: a picture of organizational health across teams, organizations, sectors, and regions.
The method is open. The shared picture is empty. A workshop insight does not enter the picture unless the holder opts in, and a cell is not shown until five independent findings can carry it.
The holder keeps the workshop
Names, notes, observers, and exact scores stay with the individual or organization that made them.
Private is the starting posture
Nothing leaves a workshop unless the holder chooses a different posture.
Opt-in is explicit
Contributing is a separate act from completing an observation. Silence is not consent.
The contribution is a finding, not the workshop
An opted-in record may carry a unit, a scale, a sector family, a region, and one band for each dimension. It is not the session.
A cell waits for company
The shared picture publishes a cell only after five independent findings share that cell.
The picture does not rank
A published cell counts bands. It does not publish a composite index, a league table, or a single score.
The holder can withdraw
A finding can be withdrawn before the next picture. Withdrawal removes it from future cells. The picture never shows who it was.
The method is open. The workshops are not
This framework may be reused with attribution. Workshop insights, the RxD instrument definition, and Brand Width engagement interiors are not part of the extract.
Shared picture
No cell has reached five independent anonymized findings. The picture stays empty until it can be shown without exposing a workshop.
A published cell counts bands for one dimension inside one unit, scale, sector, and region. Dates and receipt identifiers stay with the holder. They do not appear in the cell.
One evidence layer inside the Brand Width Index. Brand Width still asks what the work made possible, and for how long. This layer asks whether anonymized findings, across many holders, show a field that can move. They do not collapse into one score.