The HAOP record

Research, concepts, and tools

Start with the controlling sources. Then follow a concept into the paper that develops it, the tool that applies it, or the field note that tests its boundary.

Deposited · working · in development · external – status shown on every resource

Start here

The shortest path through HAOP: understand the integrated framework, see the complete work-design sequence, then run the entry diagnostic against one bounded workflow.

Deposited · Revision 6.0.1

Integrated framework

The controlling public source for the three performers, five-hazard register, five operating modes, Accountability by Control, True Function, verification architecture, grounding, and the applied method.

Deposited application · in development

The HAOP Method

ARECC applied to AI-enabled work systems as a ten-step sequence from True Function and work-as-done through control engineering and revalidation. Revision 6.0.1 Section VIII is the current statement.

Entry tool

True Function Diagnostic

A browser-local entry tool that reads the gap between work-as-imagined and work-as-done in one workflow. It does not certify safety or replace the full HAOP method.

Deposited research

These works control definitions, chronology, and the development boundary of the integrated framework.

Deposited · Version 1.1

Human-in-the-Design

Develops friction, choke points, Verification Requirement and Capacity, Verification Gates and Windows, transition states, and the Workflow Profile.

Deposited · Version 2.1

Verification Overrun

The hazardous condition in which a person is held accountable for a verification that exceeds the capacity to verify under the conditions provided.

Deposited · Version 1.0

The Collapse of Correction

Develops the workflow-level mechanism by which recursive transformation can suppress correction signals while the system continues to appear functional.

Concept pages

Framework concepts explained in place, with the deposited definitions quoted and cited. Appendix A of Revision 6.0.1 controls every definition; the pages do not substitute for it.

Deposited in Revision 6.0.1

Five Operating Modes

Responder, Signal Amplifier, Executor, Orchestrator, and Ensemble. Behavior-based and non-hierarchical, with the control surface each mode requires.

Deposited in Revision 6.0.1

Grounding

A transition-specific condition of contact. Four forms, the anchors that produce them, renewal, false grounding, and Anchor Access.

Framework concept

The Second Performer

The functional performer threshold: when AI stops being only a tool, and why the organization remains in the account.

Working tools

Development status is explicit. These artifacts support learning and work design; they are not presented as validated instruments.

Entry tool · browser-local

True Function Diagnostic

Captures the deposited nine questions across the three performers, reads the work-as-imagined vs work-as-done gap, points into the five-hazard register, and produces a downloadable design record. Browser-local; sharing the finished record is opt-in only.

Worksheet · printable

True Function Alignment Map

The printable worksheet for mapping the nine questions across the three performers on paper, away from the screen.

In development

HAOP Workbook

Practitioner operationalization of the ten-step method and its design record. Not yet deposited or empirically validated.

In development

HAOP Operating Manual

Companion volume to the Workbook. Not yet deposited; not presented as validated.

Purpose deposited · structure in development

AI Deployment Safety Data Sheet

A bidirectional hazard-communication instrument between the AI product boundary and the adopting work system. The complete standalone design remains in development.

Research collaboration and challenge

The university side and the challenge side. Exchanges that sharpen the framework publish, with permission, in the correspondence record.

Research · open

The framework is unvalidated. That is the research opportunity.

HAOP is deposited, versioned, and citable, and its measures are candidates awaiting empirical work. Thesis-scale questions are open: whether ARECC finds what conventional assessment misses, whether the diagnostic reads repeat across teams, how Verification Overrun prevalence can be measured in the field, and how the work-as-imagined gap behaves under AI adoption. I share protocols and instruments, and independent results are welcome whether or not they favor the framework.

Challenge · open

Show me where it breaks.

Challenge a mechanism or tell me what the tools miss. I read every message.

Articles and field notes

Public writing that introduces, tests, or illustrates HAOP ideas. These pieces are kept distinct from the deposited framework record.

Published in ISHN

The Third Performer

AI does not choose whether to augment or surveil. The organization sets that direction before the technology reaches the worker.

Published article

The Second Performer

When AI moves from bounded assistance into operational influence by shaping sequence, priority, visibility, recommendation, routing, approval, or execution.

Field note

Architecture of Self-Destruction

A systems argument about recursive synthetic data, weak-signal loss, and removing the human system that keeps AI in contact with operational reality.

Open record

Correspondence

Challenges, questions, and answers on the framework, published with the sender's permission. Contrary evidence is a contribution.