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The Element card

One way to describe any capability, a person, team, software or AI: what goes in, what it does, what comes out, who answers for it, and its record, failures included. The same shape as a capability inside an organisational digital twin.

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Why the card looks like this: Working paper 1, section 3.

The fields

What a card holds.

Field	Meaning
`symbol` (required)	One or two letters, like a chemical symbol.
`name` (required)
`family`	Group on the table, e.g. find, win, deliver, money, people, data, support, govern.
`made_of` (required)	person, team, software, ai, mix
`make_up`	Who or what is inside it.
`nucleus` (required)	The named person who answers for it. Always a person.
`reactants` (required)	What it must be given (inputs).
`reaction` (required)	What it does (the transformation).
`product` (required)	What it hands on (output), specific enough to check.
`catalysts`
`yield`
`reaction_time`
`rate`
`bonds_offered`
`titration`	Trial offered before bonding.
`data_tenure`	compound-owns, leased, shared, stewarded, escrow
`record`
`failures`
`isotopes`	Symbols of the same Element with a different make-up.
`made_of_elements`	For a Molecule: the Elements inside it, in order.
`version`
`listed_since`

An example

One card, as data.

Invented, like every Element on the table.

{
  "symbol": "Lq",
  "name": "Lead qualification",
  "family": "find",
  "made_of": "mix",
  "make_up": "One researcher plus an AI research tool",
  "nucleus": {
    "name": "(the researcher)",
    "identity": "declared"
  },
  "reactants": [
    "Named prospects",
    "Ideal-customer profile"
  ],
  "reaction": "Checks budget, timing and fit against the criteria",
  "product": "Qualified leads, each with the evidence",
  "catalysts": [
    {
      "name": "AI research assistant",
      "own": false
    },
    {
      "name": "Qualification checklist",
      "own": true
    }
  ],
  "yield": {
    "amount": 80,
    "unit": "leads",
    "per": "month"
  },
  "reaction_time": {
    "value": 3,
    "unit": "days"
  },
  "rate": {
    "amount": 15,
    "currency": "GBP",
    "basis": "per qualified lead"
  },
  "bonds_offered": [
    "spark",
    "half-life",
    "stable"
  ],
  "titration": {
    "transactions": 10,
    "days": 14
  },
  "data_tenure": "shared",
  "record": [
    {
      "level": "verified",
      "claim": "91% of contact details correct",
      "evidence": "Buyer’s sample of 200"
    }
  ],
  "failures": [
    {
      "what": "One batch missed the brief (wrong company size)",
      "changed": "Size check added"
    }
  ],
  "version": "3"
}

Draft. Field names may change before version 1.0.

Licence. The format is free to use under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0): use it, change it and build on it, commercially too, as long as you credit digitaltwin.org.uk.