Reference
Glossary
Controlled vocabulary for the framework. Every term carries a formal definition, a plain-English definition, related terms, its status, and the version it was introduced in. Framework version 0.1.0-alpha.
- 90/10 model Draftsince v0.0.1
Formal
A voluntary institutional agreement under which up to 10% of project profit accrues to the participant and at least 90% returns to the institution for redeployment.Plain English
A funding deal: you keep up to a tenth of the profit, and the rest funds the next round of projects. It only applies if you opt in.Specification chapterRelated: Capital recycling, Voluntary participation
- Anti-coercion Acceptedsince v0.1.0
Formal
The prohibition on direct and structural compulsion, including making non-participation practically impossible.Plain English
Nobody can be forced in — including by making life impossible for those who stay out.Specification chapterRelated: Voluntary participation
- Capital recycling Draftsince v0.0.1
Formal
The return of an agreed share of project profit to the funding institution for redeployment into subsequent projects.Plain English
Money that funded one project comes back and funds the next one.Specification chapterRelated: 90/10 model, Voluntary institution
- Governance capture Draftsince v0.1.0
Formal
The condition in which an institution's processes serve its own continuation rather than its stated mission.Plain English
When an organisation starts working to protect itself instead of doing its job.Specification chapterRelated: Sunset provision, Independent audit
- Improvement proposal (IIP) Acceptedsince v0.1.0
Formal
A numbered, dated document proposing a substantive change to the specification, containing motivation, specification, rationale, compatibility, and open questions.Plain English
The formal way to propose a change to the framework.Specification chapterRelated: Scientific governance
- Intelligent Currency Researchsince v0.0.2
Formal
A proposed private settlement and accounting framework that records value produced, value received, and system effect alongside price.Plain English
A way of recording what a purchase actually created, not just what it cost.Specification chapterRelated: Transaction Value Record, Intelligent Value Score
- Intelligent Value Score Researchsince v0.0.2
Formal
A bounded 0–100 indicator derived from value efficiency, applicable to transactions and projects only and never to persons.Plain English
A 0–100 rating of how much value a transaction created per unit of price. It is never applied to people.Specification chapterRelated: Value efficiency, Social scoring prohibition
- Intelligentism Acceptedsince v0.0.1
Formal
An open framework for optimizing civilization through better incentives, scientific governance, voluntary institutions, engineering, entrepreneurship, investment, and continuous improvement.Plain English
A proposal for organising economic life so that what pays is also what makes people measurably better off — and for checking that with evidence.Specification chapterRelated: Win-Win Capitalism, Scientific governance
- Publication of failure Draftsince v0.0.1
Formal
The requirement that failed pilots, invalidated models, and abandoned approaches be published with the same prominence as successes.Plain English
You have to publish what didn't work, not just what did.Specification chapterRelated: Scientific governance
- Purchasing-power stability Researchsince v0.0.2
Formal
A monetary objective defined as the stability of a published basket's purchasing power rather than a fixed exchange rate.Plain English
Keeping what your money buys steady, instead of pegging it to another currency.Specification chapterRelated: Purchasing-Power Index, Reserve coverage
- Reserve coverage Researchsince v0.0.2
Formal
The ratio of liquid reserves to redeemable liabilities under a published stress scenario.Plain English
Whether there is enough set aside to pay everyone back if a lot of people ask at once.Specification chapterRelated: Purchasing-power stability
- Scientific governance Draftsince v0.0.1
Formal
Governance that publishes assumptions, measures outcomes, submits to independent audit, publishes failure, and revises on evidence.Plain English
Running institutions the way good science works: state your assumptions, measure, and change your mind when the evidence says so.Specification chapterRelated: Publication of failure, Governance capture
- Sunset provision Conceptsince v0.0.1
Formal
A charter clause under which an institution's authority expires unless renewed on published evidence.Plain English
An expiry date: the organisation has to prove it is still worth having, or it closes.Specification chapterRelated: Voluntary institution, Governance capture
- System-wide prosperity Researchsince v0.0.1
Formal
The measured capability of a population to meet needs, absorb shocks, and produce future capability — distinct from nominal output.Plain English
How well a society can actually meet its needs and handle shocks, not how much money changes hands.Specification chapterRelated: Prosperity function
- Transaction Value Record Researchsince v0.0.2
Formal
A structured record extending a conventional receipt with value produced, value received by each party, dimensional detail, and provenance including method and confidence.Plain English
A receipt that also records what the transaction created and how confident anyone is in that figure.Specification chapterRelated: Intelligent Currency, Value efficiency
- Value efficiency Researchsince v0.0.2
Formal
The ratio of total value received by the parties to the transaction price.Plain English
How much value came out of a transaction for each unit of money that went in.Specification chapterRelated: Value surplus, Intelligent Value Score
- Voluntary institution Draftsince v0.0.1
Formal
A chartered, mission-specific organisation with enumerated authority, disclosed terms, published outcomes, independent audit, removable leadership, and a sunset provision.Plain English
A specialised organisation you can choose to work with, which has to publish what it does and can be shut down.Specification chapterRelated: Sunset provision, Scientific governance
- Voluntary participation Acceptedsince v0.0.1
Formal
The requirement that no person or organisation may be compelled, directly or structurally, into an Intelligentism institution or agreement.Plain English
You can always say no, and saying no must not cost you your rights or access to essentials.Specification chapterRelated: Anti-coercion, Voluntary institution
- Win-Win Capitalism Acceptedsince v0.0.1
Formal
A market philosophy holding that the ideal transaction creates value for buyer, seller, community, and system rather than for one party at another's expense.Plain English
Trade should leave everyone involved — and the people around them — better off.Specification chapterRelated: Value surplus, Transaction Value Record
Formal
A hard constraint forbidding the use of any framework score or index to rank persons or gate rights, benefits, employment, housing, or civil standing.
Plain English
Scores apply to transactions, never to people. No social credit, ever.
Specification chapterRelated: Intelligent Value Score, Data rights