Levers
A lever is a technology change with a value consequence: consolidating a duplicated platform, retiring a dependency that blocks a certification, closing a single-maintainer concentration, making a release cadence predictable enough to promise a customer date.
Each lever carries an owner, a target, the evidence of movement, and its current state. The point is to separate the levers that are moving from the ones that are being talked about.
Quiet companies
A company that publishes nothing is not a company with no news. The console flags quiet links explicitly, because silence in a portfolio is a signal — and it is the one a dashboard of metrics hides best.
Engagement posture
Posture records how closely your firm is working with a company:
- Observer — you receive published assessments and do not intervene.
- Active — you are working with the company on named levers.
Posture is a description of your involvement, not a permission level. It sets what the console expects of you: an Active posture with no lever movement in two quarters is worth a conversation about your side of it, not just theirs.
Reading the dates
Every reading is as of when the company published it, and anything drawn from a source-code extract is as of the extract. The console shows those dates rather than implying live data — a figure from a quarter ago is useful when you know it is from a quarter ago and misleading when you do not.