Playbook · v0.7.0 Published 2026-06-09
How any practitioner applies SRD. The methodology surface companion to the paper.
The SRD source paper specifies the diagnostic construct (what it is). The Playbook specifies the engagement protocol (how it runs). It is scoped deliberately to SRD application — open, cite-able, applicable by any practitioner, independent of any single consulting practice.
The application companion to the paper.
The Playbook is the methodology surface companion to the SRD source paper. The paper specifies the construct, the operationalisation, the lineage, and the falsifiability standard; the Playbook specifies how a practitioner applies the diagnostic in their own context — from signal selection through consequentiality follow-up.
It is written for the practitioner running the engagement: independent consultant, internal architect, transformation advisor, academic researcher. The structure is application-shaped — five-phase engagement protocol, six diagnostic disciplines, the anti-overreliance triad, application patterns, an open research agenda.
Cite what is derived; claim only what was produced. The Playbook applies the same discipline to itself.
Six parts. Application-shaped, not framework-shaped.
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Part A — Foundations
The SRD construct as built (six-stock stack, diagnostic matrix, EE theoretical grounding). The Enterprise Engineering theory set (PSI · ALPHA · TAO · OMEGA · DEMO) cited to Dietz & Mulder 2024 as load-bearing source; the engineering implementation in EssentialModelKit named as the Soaring Wings contribution. Read Part A →
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Part B — The Engagement Protocol
The five-phase application protocol — signal selection · delay diagnosis · bottleneck finding · intervention design · consequentiality review — with decision criteria, common pitfalls, and handoff specifications for each phase. Read Part B →
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Part C — Diagnostic Disciplines
The methodological disciplines that distinguish a real SRD diagnostic from a structured opinion — anti-confirmation gate, inter-analyst reproducibility, threshold operationalisation, signal-identification protocols, within-engagement triangulation, consequentiality follow-up. Read Part C →
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Part D — The Anti-Overreliance Triad
The AI-era discipline. Frontier-position awareness · disconfirming-signal authoring · anti-confirmation review. Anchored on Dell'Acqua et al. (2026) jagged-frontier finding. Read Part D →
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Part E — Patterns of SRD Application
Engagement-typed patterns (instrumentation-rich, authority-lagged, strategy-visible, capability-map-complete) and quadrant-derived patterns (Augmented Frontier, Instrumentation Gap, Slow-Complex Zone). Cross-references the standalone Pattern Library.
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Part F — Open Questions & Research Agenda
What's still unknown. v0.4 absorption candidate (System Dynamics). v0.5 candidate (high-reliability organisations). Cross-cultural validity, AI-era window-contraction parameters, sector specificity. Read Part F →
Open web spine. Downloadable release pack.
The Playbook is published in two layers. The open web spine — Parts A through F as readable pages on this surface — is freely accessible, no gate. The release pack bundles the full PDF, the engagement canvases (forthcoming v0.8), and the release notes; it's downloadable in exchange for an email, which adds you to the v0.8 / v1.0 communication list.
The model is borrowed from Boundaryless's Platform Design Toolkit — substance free, bundles tracked. The substance has to be giveable for the methodology to earn its claim.
Working document, not a manifesto.
v0.7.0 is the inaugural release of the SRD Application Playbook. It supersedes the prior Strategic Architecture Playbook v0.6.0, which has been retired from the methodology surface. The v0.6 content — engagement archetypes, modes, pricing structure, internal toolkit — was scoped to a single consulting practice and belongs to the practitioner front, not the methodology home. It now lives as engagement-only material.
v0.7.0 · 2026-06-09 (current) — inaugural release. Scope narrowed to SRD application. Cite-discipline applied throughout: Dietz & Mulder for the EE theory set, Olivier 2026 for the construct, Dell'Acqua 2026 for the anti-overreliance anchor.
v0.8 (forthcoming) — engagement canvases bundle (Signal Selection, Six-Stock Stock-Mapping, Quadrant Placement, Anti-overreliance Audit, Re-sequencing Pack, Consequentiality Review) shipping in PDF + PNG + SVG.
v1.0 (forthcoming) — cumulative empirical record of at least five completed applications with consequentiality follow-up.
The evidence standard.
Soaring Wings evidence discipline
Three tiers. Each one earns its place.
The Playbook distinguishes between working constructs (entering the methodology provisionally), field-tested patterns (validated across multiple applications), and stable methodology principles (three-or-more independent contexts confirmed). Each tier has a different status, citation form, and amendment threshold.
Constructs enter the Playbook provisionally — marked, dated, attributed to the engagement that surfaced them. Constructs that don't validate get retired.
Patterns graduate from construct to pattern when the same shape has surfaced in two or more unrelated applications with consequentiality follow-up confirming the diagnostic call.
Principles graduate from pattern to principle only after three or more unrelated applications have demonstrated the principle holds across sector, scale, and operating-model variation. Principles that fail this bar are edited, merged, or retired.
The Playbook is a working document, not a manifesto. Versions are dated. Amendments are visible. Disconfirmation is the load-bearing discipline.
Two doors.
Contact Soaring Wings
For research, peer review, methodology partnerships, release-pack access, critical readings, or pattern submissions.
contact@soaringwings.ai → Consulting applicationWork with AJ Olivier
For live SRD diagnostics, transformation architecture, advisory work, or commercial application of the methodology.
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