§ 6.1
Foundation
Team, tooling, supply chain, distribution, baseline measurement. Foundation that takes longer than expected is itself signal — either the constraints are misspecified, or the case is more complex than the input suggested.
§ 5–6 · Method
The state
machine.
Every case is always in exactly one state. There are no hybrid or undefined states. State determines which actions are legal and how the same signal must be interpreted.
INDX / § 5–6
4 STATES · 4 PHASES
4 STATES · 4 PHASES
States
§ 5
Discovery → Validation → Exploitation → Solidification.
Cases may also exit sideways into Kill or Release. Those are not failure states — they are successful outputs of disciplined decision-making, and the resources they recover become inputs for the next case.
01
State
Discovery
Is this worth investigating further?
Legal here
- · Small bets
- · Signal generation
- · Broad experimentation
Illegal here
- · Asymmetric capital
- · Scaling commitments
02
State
Validation
Do the attributes actually hold in reality?
Legal here
- · Time-boxed tests
- · Binary thresholds
- · Pre-committed budget
Illegal here
- · Threshold revision without new info
- · Open-ended runway
03
State
Exploitation
How fast can we scale what is validated?
Legal here
- · Asymmetric commitment
- · Removing failed attributes
- · Focus narrowing
Illegal here
- · Experimentation unrelated to scaling
- · New unrelated attributes
04
State
Solidification
Is this ready to leave the machine?
Legal here
- · Documentation
- · Team hand-off
- · External stewardship
Illegal here
- · Retention inside core
- · Long-term operational attention
Phases
§ 6
Inside each state, phases describe what work happens.
§ 6.2
Attribute-testing
The heart of the system. Each attribute is identified, made measurable, and tested against a pre-defined threshold. Quality here determines the quality of every downstream decision.
§ 6.3
Scaling
Begins only after attribute-testing produces evidence of asymmetric commitment. Failed attributes are explicitly removed even if they were part of the original thesis.
§ 6.4
Solidification & spin-off
Operations stabilise. Knowledge is documented. The case leaves the core machine — Indicio must not be burdened with long-term operational attention.
§ 4.3 · Outputs
Four outputs. Nothing else counts as an action.
Go
Advance to the next state.
Scale
Increase commitment asymmetrically.
Kill
Terminate and recover resources.
Release
Remove from the core system while preserving optional upside.
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