Voice Codex Protocol

The Distinction

What Makes Voice Different

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Public Codex

Anonymous / Collective

What the world sees

Source dissolves into perception

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Document Codex

Institutional / Declared

What they tell themselves

Source melts, content remains

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Voice Codex

Personal / Attributed

What lives in people

Source preserved: WHO said it matters

The key insight: Documents want to be consistent. People are inconsistent. They contradict themselves, perform confidence they don't feel, reveal things they didn't intend. Voice captures the human system: not just what's said, but who said it, from where in the hierarchy, and what transmits (or dies) as knowledge flows through people.

Architecture

The Complete Flow

1. Interview 2. Character Map 3. Layer Group 4. Transmit 5. Vertical Read 6. Synthesize 7. Voice Codex

STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS (N people across hierarchy)

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CHARACTER MAPS: Each person → SIC-aligned dramaturgical map

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ORIGIN

AUTHORITY

PRACTICE

RECEPTION

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TRANSMISSION MATRICES: Origin→Authority→Practice→Reception

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VERTICAL READS: Same question across all layers

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SYNTHESIS: Patterns, silences, transmissions, gaps

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VOICE CODEX

Organizational Strata

The Four Layers

Each altitude has a characteristic relationship to organizational truth

1

ORIGIN LAYER

Founder • Co-founder • Original team

Those who hold the source

Sees the whole, holds the origin, may be blind to what changed

2

AUTHORITY LAYER

Successor • CEO • Leadership • Board

Those who hold current power

Translates founder to org, may secretly diverge, manages up and down

3

PRACTICE LAYER

Senior practitioners • Department heads • Method holders

Those who embody the work

Holds craft knowledge, often most honest about what actually works

4

RECEPTION LAYER

Mid-level staff • New hires • Recent joins

Those who receive the culture

Sees what others normalised, hasn't been trained out of noticing

ORIGIN → AUTHORITY → PRACTICE → RECEPTION

Knowledge transmission flow

Dramaturgical Artifact

The Character Map (SIC-Aligned)

Every stakeholder becomes a standardised dramaturgical artifact

Standard Dimensions

1 Identity What does this organisation claim to be?

2 Context How do they see the landscape?

3 Diagnosis What do the lenses reveal?

4 Contradictions What tensions do they hold?

5 Connections How do threads connect?

6 Emergence What is trying to happen?

7 Structure What architecture fits?

8 Voice What register lands?

9 Expression What is the crystallised form?

10 Pathway What is the way forward?

Example: Henri Chenot

ORIGIN

Founder • 40 years

SIC-1: "We ARE the method" F≡M

SIC-2: "Imitators everywhere" C=I↑

SIC-3: "No real problems" ¬P

SIC-4: "Contradictions? Where?" ¬⊗

SIC-5: "Everything I built connects" F→∀

SIC-6: "Preserve what works" M→M

SIC-7: "My structure is correct" S=S

SIC-8: "Scientific authority" V=Sci

SIC-9: "The Chenot Method" E=CM

SIC-10: "Stay the course" P=∅

META: Character Rules

What makes this character predictable and dramaturgically coherent

Always Says

References scientific basis, mentions 40 years experience

Never Says

Admits methodology gaps, acknowledges competitors' validity

Under Pressure

Retreats to founder authority, dismisses as misunderstanding

Protects

The origin myth, his irreplaceability

Symbolic Language

Relationship Algebra

Same symbolic language as Document Codex: positions mapped against positions

⊗

Contradiction

⊘

Tension

≡

Alignment

≈

Echo

→

Dependency

○

Silence

◐

Blind Spot

Knowledge Flow

Transmission Matrices

How knowledge flows (or dies) between organisational layers

ORIGIN → AUTHORITY Succession

Survival: 20%

1⊘

2≈

3⊗

4○

5⊘

6⊗

7≈

8⊘

9⊗

10⊗

Diagnosis: Succession is divergence, not continuity

AUTHORITY → PRACTICE Implementation

Survival: 40%

1≈

2≡

3⊘

4⊗

5≈

6○

7⊗

8≡

9⊘

10⊘

Diagnosis: Practice sees problems leadership doesn't

PRACTICE → RECEPTION Transmission

Survival: 10%

1⊘

2○

3○

4○

5○

6○

7○

8≈

9○

10○

Diagnosis: Knowledge dying at the edge

ORIGIN → RECEPTION Total

Survival: 5%

1⊗

2◐

3◐

4○

5○

6○

7○

8⊘

9○

10◐

Diagnosis: Almost nothing survives the full journey

TOTAL TRANSMISSION VERDICT

When Origin → Reception shows 5% survival, the method is not transmitting. What the founder holds, the new hire doesn't receive. The organisation is losing itself with every generation.

Cross-Layer Analysis

Vertical Read

Same question across all layers: does the organisation agree with itself?

1 SIC-1: What does this organisation claim to be?

What Each Layer Says

ORIGIN F≡M

"We are the method itself"

— Founder

AUTHORITY W→M'

"We are modernising wellness"

— Successor

PRACTICE W→H

"We help people heal"

— Practitioner

RECEPTION W?C

"We're... a clinic?"

— New Hire

Alignment Matrix

	O	A	P	R
ORIGIN	≡	⊘	○	◐
AUTH	⊘	≡	⊘	⊘
PRAC	○	⊘	≡	≈
RECEP	◐	⊘	≈	≡

Diagnosis

Identity fragments down hierarchy. Founder-Successor tension. New hire doesn't recognise any version.

Synthesis

The Voice Codex Output

What the synthesis produces

THE CHARACTERS

Each person as dramaturgical map with rules

THE TRANSMISSIONS

How knowledge flows between layers

THE VERTICAL READS

Alignment/fragmentation per SIC question

THE PATTERNS

Where voices align, fragment, go silent

THE PROTECTIONS

What each layer defends

THE BLIND SPOTS

What each layer's position prevents seeing

THE KNOWLEDGE MAP

Where organisational truth actually lives

THE UNSAID

What no one mentions: collective silence

Implementation

Thread Architecture

Each stakeholder gets their own project for isolated character extraction

Project: Character Extraction

# One project per stakeholder

[COMPANY] VOICE - Founder - Henri

[COMPANY] VOICE - Successor - George

[COMPANY] VOICE - Practitioner - Maria

[COMPANY] VOICE - NewHire - Sofia

# Inside each project:

├── Transcript upload

├── SIC interrogation threads

└── Character Map output

Project: Voice Socialisation

# Character maps meet

[COMPANY] LAYER - Origin Coherence

[COMPANY] LAYER - Authority Coherence

[COMPANY] LAYER - Practice Coherence

[COMPANY] LAYER - Reception Coherence

# Transmissions

[COMPANY] TRANSMISSION - Succession

[COMPANY] TRANSMISSION - Implementation

[COMPANY] TRANSMISSION - Total

# Final

[COMPANY] VOICE CODEX

Visualisation

Organisational Topology

The human system as relationship map

ORIGIN F≡M

AUTH W→M'

PRAC
A

PRAC
B

RECEP W?C

5% SURVIVAL

Origin → Reception

Layer Colours

Origin

Authority

Practice

Reception

Toward Triangulation

Voice Codex joins Public and Document to reveal the complete truth

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PUBLIC

The world's view

+

◈

DOCUMENTS

The declared self

+

◉

VOICES

The human system

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LIVING CODEX

The organisation as it actually is

Public shows reputation. Documents show intention. Voices show the human reality.

What appears when all three collide is the truth.