TEN CANONICAL DECISION SURFACES.
A surface is where external structural movement becomes institutionally consequential. The ten surfaces are fixed. Territories inside a surface are navigation labels, not new surfaces. Functions inside a surface are where decisions are actually made.
Governance
Boards, committees and senior risk owners: accountability pressure before assurance language becomes brittle.
No dependency mapped
NO PUBLIC OBSERVATION → SURFACE 02Finance
Financial institutions and treasury functions where changing dependencies alter funding, liquidity and credit decisions.
No dependency mapped
NO PUBLIC OBSERVATION → SURFACE 03Intelligence
Analytical and intelligence functions whose interpretation of external change sets the ceiling for everyone downstream.
No dependency mapped
NO PUBLIC OBSERVATION → SURFACE 04AI
AI operators and infrastructure leaders: model, compute and deployment exposure under changing dependencies.
RDM-03 · SCALE TEST PLANNED
SCALE TEST PLANNED → SURFACE 05Capital
Capital owners and allocators: timing, concentration and strategic exposure when diversification is only apparent.
RDM-03 · SCALE TEST PLANNED
SCALE TEST PLANNED → SURFACE 06Markets
Bounded decision environments inside markets (FX, rates, credit, energy markets and others) where cross-asset coupling appears late.
No dependency mapped
NO PUBLIC OBSERVATION → SURFACE 07Science
Research and scientific institutions whose evidence standards govern what can be claimed.
No dependency mapped
NO PUBLIC OBSERVATION → SURFACE 08Media
Narrative and information institutions where public interpretation forms before institutional interpretation stabilises.
No dependency mapped
NO PUBLIC OBSERVATION → SURFACE 09Industry
Industrial operators, grid-adjacent and infrastructure-dependent, inheriting contingencies they did not contract for.
RDM-03 · SCALE TEST PLANNED
SCALE TEST PLANNED → SURFACE 10Reinsurance
Reinsurers: accumulation, portfolio, underwriting, technical, enterprise-risk, actuarial and claims decisions under a shared grid dependency.
RDM-03 · MAP PUBLISHED
MAP PUBLISHED →Labels: MAP PUBLISHED (public surface map released), SCALE TEST PLANNED (next cross-surface test), NO PUBLIC OBSERVATION (no supported work released). These are presentational labels, not governed states. No surface is under live monitoring.