GUARD FROM THIS DEPENDENCY.
Develops the institution-specific consequence position: what the dependency puts under pressure, which exposures or decisions it connects, and what the institution should guard.
DRIFT SYSTEMSHIDDEN DEPENDENCIES.
DISCOVERED OPPORTUNITIES.
Each stage has a different job. A candidate does not become RDM-03 because it sounds plausible. It becomes an RDM only if the mechanism and evidence boundary survive challenge. Decision relevance is tested separately when the ratified mechanism is applied to a surface.
Generate candidate dependency mechanisms from public evidence. Look for changing relationships between things still treated as separate.
Attack the candidate with contradiction, prior art, separability and falsifiability tests. Ask what evidence would kill it.
Promote only a surviving mechanism. Freeze what is OBSERVED, MODELLED, INFERRED and UNPROVEN so later work cannot silently upgrade the evidence.
Map the ratified dependency mechanism onto the public surface, its functions and decision boundaries without claiming knowledge of internal portfolios or models.
Choose the consequential question to develop. GUARD asks what the dependency could threaten. CREATE asks what recognising it could make newly valuable.
The method is designed to permit NULL at both stages. A mechanism does not ratify if it cannot be separated from prior art or survive contradiction. A ratified mechanism does not pass a surface test unless consequential decision relevance can be supported without unsupported assumptions.
Is the dependency mechanism defined precisely enough to test?
Is this more than a relabelled known risk or existing category?
What public evidence weakens or breaks the proposed connection?
Has the same dependency already been publicly recognised in materially equivalent form?
Could the ratified mechanism change a real institutional decision on this surface?
What evidence would cause the dependency or downstream claim to fail?
CONSEQUENCE and OPPORTUNITY remain separate reports. GUARD and CREATE are the simple decision layer. Commission either report on its own, or both against the same RDM-03 evidence base.
Develops the institution-specific consequence position: what the dependency puts under pressure, which exposures or decisions it connects, and what the institution should guard.
Develops the institution-specific opportunity position: what recognising the dependency could help create across decisions, products, services, structures, capabilities or market position.
Two complete positions from one dependency and shared evidence base: what the institution should guard, and what it could create.
The method stays outside-in. Public evidence can establish the mechanism, its evidence state and the institution's public footprint. It cannot establish how a buyer treats RDM-03 internally. That comparison belongs to the buyer.