Section 02 · diagnostic register

Make the invisible visible

Systems Drag Index™ is a diagnostic instrument that names and measures operational drag. The reader is the only character. The reader has not failed. The diagnosis names the system, never the operator.

Published Roles · all Register · Systems Drag Index Owner · Internal Admin

your sdi result

74 Severe drag

The score names the load. The tier sets the frame. The cost is what your systems quietly carry – named in dollars per year.

Severity scale – teal → gold → ember, no red

Low drag

0–29

Moderate

30–59

High drag

60–89

Severe

90–100

The naming architecture

Three named tiers, each naming a different thing. Systems Drag Index™ is the framework and the score – the instrument. Systems Drag Summary™ is the free document. Systems Drag Analysis™ is the paid document at $97 – never called a report. SDI refers only to the reader's score, and never carries ™.

Weight is not the problem. Shape is.

Methodology

The SDI Framework

What the Index measures, the five drivers, the score and its four tiers, and why the load has gone unmeasured until now.

The Systems Growth Map

How the diagnostic diagram inside a Systems Drag Analysis™ works – the three states, the colour grammar, and why the shape is the argument.