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44 local-first instruments

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Succession Archive Readiness interactive

What cannot be reconstructed later? — Record why a choice was made, who contributed, what failed, what remains sensitive, and which relationship holds tacit knowledge Can the physical and digital records find one another? — Pair garments, samples, notebooks, photographs, contracts, communications, and born-digital files through stable identifiers and relationship fields Will the record open and remain trustworthy? — Maintain master and backup copies, record checksums and formats, document transformations, migrate deliberately, and keep known gaps visible Who may act after absence? — Name stewards, alternates, access rules, privacy limits, conservation referrals, legal instruments, and a review process for loans, publication, licensing, interpretation, and disposalA total archive can become surveillance of the founder, collaborators, family, workers, and communities?

Educational planning instrument; not legal advice. No data is transmitted.

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Founder Control / Story Matrix

What does the vote actually reach? — Record security class, votes per share, ownership date, agreements, transfer limits, quorum, reserved matters, and the exact filing Who directs the corporation? — For a Delaware corporation, inspect certificate, bylaws, board composition, committee and delegation records with §141 Which systems shape public memory? — Map archive access, approval language, publicity, account control, historian or curator independence, contributor correction, and disputed records separately from corporate votes Who can challenge the controller? — Identify independent directors, contractual rights, worker and collaborator channels, law, fiduciary review, press scrutiny, archive policy, and correction routes without assuming any is effective in a particular companyFounder control can protect experimentation and continuity; it can also preserve error and concentrate the power to describe other people’s labor?

Educational planning instrument; not legal advice. No data is transmitted.

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Product Passport Evidence Architect

What is legally required now? — Identify product scope, applicable delegated acts, actor, territory, date, required fields, carrier, access rules, and official legal source Who supports each field? — Bind claim, data source, responsible party, verification method, date, confidence, correction, and evidence file What history may responsibly be added? — Connect design development, maker and repair records, care, alterations, provenance, archive deposit, rights, and permitted owner narration while minimizing personal data Will the record survive the vendor? — Require export, open formats, persistent identifiers, versioning, backups, access governance, migration tests, and a non-digital fallback for essential care informationMore product data does not automatically create accountability?

Educational planning instrument; not legal advice. No data is transmitted.

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Company / Archive Separation Map

What exactly is in the deal? — Inventory entity interests and each asset class with current owner, custodian, governing record, restriction, liability, and desired treatment What mechanism moves each asset? — Distinguish equity sale, asset sale, trademark assignment, copyright transfer, license, loan, deposit, donation, data transfer, and services or transition arrangement What must remain connected? — Map originals and copies, provenance, restrictions, operational dependencies, privacy, legal hold, contributor access, research terms, correction, and future interpretation Who can use and explain the history? — Define access, digitization, exhibition, licensing, publication, brand reference, authentication, enforcement cooperation, funding, custody, and dispute mechanismsA founder-retained archive may preserve dissenting memory or become a private leverage device?

Educational planning instrument; not legal advice. No data is transmitted.

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Link-Only Resilience Ledger

Which memory exists only elsewhere? — Inventory source URL, platform, account owner, identifier, format, access condition, geography, login, cost, rights, and evidence use What may lawfully be retained? — Separate public visibility, download ability, license, authorized embed, preservation copy, quotation, metadata, and link What survives without the media? — Write a faithful factual description, creator and institution credit, date, identifier, evidentiary relevance, rights status, and retrieval history without substituting invented imagery What happens after failure? — Schedule link checks, preserve redirects and replacement records, document loss, contact stewards, update citations, and keep correction historyPreservation rhetoric can become a justification for copying creators’ work without consent?

Educational planning instrument; not legal advice. No data is transmitted.

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Last Collection Response Board

Who and what need an answer today? — Inventory safety, payroll, benefits, contractors, customers, deposits, deadlines, facilities, systems, insurers, lenders, and emergency contacts Which changes should stop? — Preserve files, samples, accounts, logs, agreements, permissions, money movements, and public drafts; suspend deletion and irreversible publication while legal holds, privacy, and access are reviewed Can unfinished work continue? — Assess creative authority, contributor consent, labor, contract, quality, finance, rights, customer, cultural, and reputational consequences for ship, pause, complete, transfer, or cancel How will the institution explain the outcome? — Publish only verified decisions, preserve dissent and credits, notify affected parties before spectacle, record refunds or remedies, and archive the rationale and authorityCompleting a founder’s last work can honor relationships or exploit absence?

Educational planning instrument; not legal advice. No data is transmitted.

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Legacy Steward Comparator

What must continue? — Separate object care, digital preservation, research, public access, teaching, grants, commercial licensing, authentication, publication, and correction into explicit functions What would each steward receive? — Inventory title, custody, copyright, marks, contracts, data, restrictions, donor terms, cultural authority, liabilities, funding, and operational dependencies Who decides and who can challenge? — Design board or leadership composition, expertise, conflicts, terms, removal, founder and community voice, worker or contributor input, research independence, appeals, and review Can care survive attention cycles? — Model conservation, storage, digitization, staffing, insurance, systems, access, education, rights clearance, and contingency costs without assuming sales or donations will cover themA prestigious steward can still close access, underfund care, commercialize memory, or erase communities?

Educational planning instrument; not legal advice. No data is transmitted.

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Method / Motif Separation Lab

Which problems animated the work? — Identify recurring questions about body, material, power, movement, labor, audience, technology, or refusal from dated records—not retrospective slogans How were answers tested? — Recover research, cut, drape, fitting, casting, collaboration, critique, rejection, and revision practices, including exceptions and contributor accounts What changes in the new context? — Name new bodies, materials, technologies, laws, workers, audiences, and cultural authorities; explain what the inherited method cannot answer unchanged Can evolution show its lineage? — Attach source, interpretation, transformation, contributor, permission, dissent, and successor rationale so continuity is neither copy nor amnesia“Continue the method” can itself become founder worship or selective history?

Educational planning instrument; not legal advice. No data is transmitted.

CN07

Succession Oral-History Planner

Who should speak and under what conditions? — Define purpose, interviewer, narrator, consent, accessibility, language, compensation, privacy, cultural authority, distress protocol, topics declined, recording ownership, and withdrawal limits Which decisions cannot be read from files? — Ask for sensory thresholds, rejected options, relationship dynamics, exceptions, informal vocabulary, moments of uncertainty, and what the narrator does not know Can narrators revise the record? — Provide transcript, contextual notes, name and pronoun checks, redaction, embargo, restriction, disagreement, and approval choices without promising control the archive cannot legally grant How does voice join the archive? — Bind recording, transcript, timecodes, people, objects, files, rights, access, preservation copies, migrations, and successor-use rules through stable identifiersOral history can overprivilege charismatic memory, pressure vulnerable narrators, expose third parties, or convert community knowledge into institutional property?

Educational planning instrument; not legal advice. No data is transmitted.

CN08

Object / File Pairing Register

Can object and file find each other? — Assign stable identifiers to garment, component, container, digital folder, preservation copy, image, and related record; never rely on filename or shelf memory alone What evidence belongs to each medium? — Record physical material, construction, wear and condition separately from file provenance, format, metadata, rights, version, and fixity What threatens survival? — Assess handling, light, pests, humidity, storage materials, damage, hardware, software, format, bit integrity, access, vendor, and backup with appropriate specialists How will access avoid harm? — Define handling, digitization, research, display, reproduction, privacy, cultural restriction, loan, treatment, and correction rules; record every interventionDigitization can create access while encouraging the fiction that the physical object has been preserved?

Educational planning instrument; not legal advice. No data is transmitted.

CN09

Legacy Funding Power Audit

Which barrier is being changed? — Use participant and field evidence to name the constraint—time, space, tools, care, legal access, production, archive, education, market, or safety—without inventing deficit narratives Who defines success? — Allocate governance among participants, practitioners, community authorities, staff, independent reviewers, and funder; disclose conflicts and create appeal and correction routes What do recipients retain? — Separate grant conditions, IP, name and likeness, documentation, data, confidentiality, cultural knowledge, publication, archive, and post-program access What remains when funding stops? — Plan unrestricted assets, maintained tools, open or governed curricula, participant networks, preserved records, successor funding, and an ethical closure routeA founder may genuinely expand opportunity while retaining disproportionate agenda power?

Educational planning instrument; not legal advice. No data is transmitted.

CN10

House Afterlife Map

What ended and when? — Record entity, business operation, employment, production, sales, licenses, domains, accounts, premises, and public announcement separately with authoritative dates Where did assets and obligations go? — Track inventory, samples, cash, debt, contracts, marks, copyrights, data, domains, archives, equipment, and records by governing transaction and custodian Who preserves the history? — Map museums, archives, former workers, collaborators, customers, press, communities, and collectors with rights, privacy, correction, and provenance boundaries How should later work describe continuity? — Distinguish revival, license, acquisition, homage, research, exhibition, successor, and unrelated reuse; attach the evidence for every relationship claimInstitutional afterlife can preserve culture or become a market for nostalgia stripped of workers, creditors, and contested history?

Educational planning instrument; not legal advice. No data is transmitted.

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Provenance Confidence Ledger

Is this the same object? — Record stable identifier, components, marks, labels, measurements, materials, images, condition, alterations, and comparison basis; note uncertainty and separated parts Can each custody event be evidenced? — Attach acquisition, gift, inheritance, loan, sale, deposit, return, location, responsible party, document, date, and restriction without inventing missing links What changed the object or record? — Log repair, conservation, cleaning, alteration, reframing, digitization, renaming, reattribution, exhibition, reproduction, and metadata correction How confident is the story? — Label verified fact, physical observation, attributed conclusion, participant account, inference, disputed statement, and unresolved gap; retain earlier versions and correction historyProvenance can become a prestige narrative that launders gaps, excludes makers, or treats legal title as ethical legitimacy?

Educational planning instrument; not legal advice. No data is transmitted.

CN12

Institutional Will Coordination Map

What should happen—and why? — Write desired outcomes for company, name, work in progress, archive, public voice, teaching, licensing, philanthropy, privacy, dependents, and closure in plain language Which instrument can make it happen? — Map corporate documents, contracts, employment terms, IP records, wills or trusts, powers, beneficiary designations, data policies, archive agreements, and jurisdiction-specific requirements with counsel Who acts, who substitutes, who reviews? — Name primary and alternate decision-makers by function; address conflicts, expertise, compensation, access, accountability, dissent, cultural authority, and removal Does the plan work in practice? — Run incapacity, death, departure, sale, closure, dispute, data loss, platform failure, preservation emergency, and public controversy; record fixes and review datesFounder intent can support clarity or attempt to control culture indefinitely?

Educational planning instrument; not legal advice. No data is transmitted.

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