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Programmes

A programme with no named owner does not appear here. Nor does one with no way to end.

Each programme states who owns it, what stage it is at, and the conditions under which it stops. The kill criteria are written before the work starts, not after it fails.

The charter gate

Nothing becomes a programme without a written charter: the question, the named owner, the data that would settle it, and the conditions under which we would admit the answer is no.

The Telos Council holds a veto on any charter that cannot state its kill criteria.

The kill gate

Programmes are reviewed quarterly against their own criteria, not against how much has been spent on them so far.

When one stops, we publish why. A closed programme is marked closed rather than left online to look alive.

The long horizon

Programmes are one-year instruments serving a twenty-one-year question.