For fleet owners
License a named way of working for the job.
You own the machines. What this register licenses is not a machine and not a person — it is one named way of working, for one family of machine, run under the name of the person whose way of working it is. You choose it before the work starts, it runs on your iron, and every hour it runs is counted.
Tacit Tessera registers every kind of skill set and licenses it to two kinds of licensee: OEMs — makers, kit companies, fleet owners, businesses that run a machine — and AI, meaning a platform, an agent builder or a command centre. Steady Eddie and Strategic Agent require skill sets. Even Steven owns them. Tacit Tessera licenses them to OEMs and to AI.
You ask for a hand by name. The register writes the number beside that name — C H 5 001 AG, say, whose leading letter is its sector — and the number never stands in place of it. On a Hands entry the Card always carries both, because the name is the address and a number on its own would rank somebody.
Nothing is chosen for you and nothing is chosen by default. There is no last-used setting on a machine, and there is no order of merit inside a family of machine — no ranking, no score, no paid placement. A way of working is selected by name and it is never put together with another.
It refuses work outside the family of machine it covers, and it never runs under any name but the person's own.
Every person shown in this register is invented and marked Example. No hand is listed today.
A spread runs more than one machine, so a job runs more than one meter. Each machine counts its own hours against the number and edition it ran under. Those counts arrive as one invoice, and each line on it traces back to one signed row at one machine.
The act that clears a machine to run is the act that starts the count. That single row does three jobs: it is the clearance, it is the invoice line, and it is the pay. There is no second set of books to reconcile against, because there is no second set.
The operator is paid for every hour their way of working is in use on your machines. That is what the licence charges for, and the count is what the money is worked out from. No rate appears on this site. The figure sits with Even Steven, on the paper the person signs, and the register does not quote it.
The person's agreement is with Even Steven — not with you, not with their employer, and not with the register. That separation is the reason the promise to them can be kept at all.
| The question | Where the answer comes from |
|---|---|
| Is this number real, and typed correctly? | The check character, then the register's verify page |
| Is the edition I pinned still the current one? | The verify page, recomputed from the sealed Card — never cached as a verdict |
| Did the hours I am billed for actually run? | The signed rows at the machine, read from both ends |
| What is this way of working not allowed to do? | The Card's own refusals, published on the entry |
Being able to see that you were paid is not the same thing as being able to see that you were paid correctly. The audit runs from both ends for that reason, and the count is checkable at source rather than taken on trust — by you, and by the person whose name is on it.
Pin an edition in the paperwork and the result stays reproducible. Run against the pinned edition today or in five years and it behaves the same way, or the register says why not.
It is not a measurement of your crew. A record is never supplied to assess the person, to an insurer or to anyone else. Nothing in this register grades a person, ranks a family, or produces a figure that could be read as a verdict on somebody in a seat.
It is not permanent against the person's will. The person behind a Hands skill set can end it. It stops for new work at once; a job already underway finishes. There are two dates in that — the out-of-service date, the day the job already underway has finished and nothing runs it anywhere, and the true date, the day every copy of the record is gone, backups included — and they are never collapsed into one. Ending it is not a breach, it costs the person nothing, and nobody can extend it.
It is not a claim about output. The register stands behind the money owed, the count and the deletion. It does not stand behind the machine, the job, or what gets built with it. Those stay yours.
No capture session has ever been recorded. No hand is listed, nothing has been metered and nobody has been paid. Every entry reads Specified.
Read the entry before you write the number down.
Every Hands entry in the Book publishes its scope, what it is built from, how it is tested and what it refuses. The person's own paper — consent, rate and ending — is with Even Steven.