The Structural Deprovisioning Model's prediction that reconstructing visible infrastructure does not automatically recreate the state the company once maintained through daily operation. A new role or board seat, for example, may supply activity without reproducing the former identity, operating, or feedback system.

Model-level mechanism #3 by which removal in one provisioning domain degrades functioning in connected domains. Because the five domains operated as an interdependent system, their effects compound rather than accumulate separately.

The highest level of the three-construct architecture. A category names a phenomenon across populations; within this system, Self-Legibility occupies that level.

Root phenomenon #7, produced when the company's social infrastructure and its daily pattern of mutual dependency cease to operate. It concerns destabilization of the founder's social world after exit, including changes in team contact, peer relationships, professional networks, and domestic dynamics.

Model-level mechanism #5 through which Dependency Opacity obstructs Self-Legibility after exit. The company supplied part of the perceptual apparatus through which the founder read their own operating state, so its removal can obscure the structural source of what changed.

A disruption that occurs only when particular exit circumstances are present. Its appearance depends on features such as transaction structure, departure conditions, or events following the sale.

Root phenomenon #5, produced when the company's daily contribution context disappears. It develops through the cumulative absence of a setting in which the founder's decisions and effort produce visible value for other people.

Model-level mechanism #7 by which an internal identity standard continues to seek confirmation after exit removes the company-based feedback loop that once supplied it. The standard persists because the normal system for verifying and recalibrating it is no longer operating.

Model-level mechanism #2: the structural opacity through which reliance on company-based infrastructure remains unseen because the founder authored that infrastructure. What the company continuously supplied is experienced as personal authorship and ordinary operation until exit makes the dependency visible.

Model-level mechanism #1: the simultaneous removal of all five provisioning domains when a founder exits the company. It establishes compound infrastructure absence from the outset, even though specific effects become visible on different timelines.

A disruption that follows from one root phenomenon. Its causal line can be traced to a single irreducible consequence of deprovisioning.

The directionally structured pair of gaps through which a change in Self-Legibility can be detected after separation from an institution. The inward gap concerns operating state versus self-interpretation; the outward gap concerns capability versus what the environment detects.

The Structural Deprovisioning Model's organized account of what exit removes, what results, and how those results develop over time. It comprises five provisioning domains, seven model-level mechanisms, eight root phenomena, and 30+ disruptions assigned across five classification types.

The system that identifies how each of the 30+ disruptions relates to the underlying architecture. The five types are derivative, emergent, conditional, situational, and meta-structural.

A disruption produced by interaction among multiple root phenomena. It arises from compound effects rather than from one causal source.

The capacity to know and interpret one's own functional state, operating requirements, expertise, and professional identity, then convert that understanding into deliberate action. Self-Legibility is a structurally mediated epistemic capacity whose realized level varies with the perceptual apparatus through which it operates.

Provisioning Domain #5: the company as the founder's financial operating framework. It connects money to productive effort, operational consequence, capital allocation, and the identity of building economic value.

Root phenomenon #8, produced when the former relationship among scarcity, productive effort, financial consequence, and builder identity reverses after exit. Liquidity changes the operating logic of money from creation within a company to stewardship outside it.

The current configuration of how a person operates: their capacities, requirements, calibration, and access to supporting infrastructure. Self-Legibility includes the capacity to perceive and interpret this configuration accurately.

The systematic reconstruction of professional and personal systems that were previously embedded in the company. Completion is reached when those systems operate independently of any single organization.

The roles, recognition systems, authority structures, narratives, and feedback through which an institution makes professional identity stable and readable. Founder status may remain embedded in this architecture until separation removes its daily reinforcement.

The externally operated systems, relationships, resources, and feedback structures through which an institution sustains a person's functioning. In the founder-company relationship, this infrastructure can span all five provisioning domains.

The ongoing supply of infrastructure and maintained operating states by an organization or institution. In founder-company relationships, provisioning may span identity, daily operations, significance, social connection, and financial context.

Root phenomenon #6, produced when the post-exit environment no longer matches a founder's established calibration for high-speed, consequential operation. A full schedule can remain insufficient when its stakes and tempo differ from those of company-building.

The inward component of the Self-Legibility discrepancy signature: the distance between a person's operating state and their interpretation of that state. It concerns the accuracy of self-reading.

The readability of a system, environment, or subject to an observer. In the work of James C. Scott and Kevin Lynch, the term concerns how external systems and environments become readable; Self-Legibility extends the logic to a person's capacity to read their own operating state.

Provisioning Domain #3: the company as the architecture connecting daily effort to significance and visible contribution. It supplies both a framework for why the work matters and a recurring context in which the founder's actions carry consequence for others.

A disruption that operates across the architecture as a whole rather than within one root phenomenon or circumstance. It affects how the wider system is perceived, expressed, or addressed.

A causal process that explains how structural deprovisioning begins, spreads, becomes visible, remains concealed, or persists. The model specifies seven such mechanisms.

Provisioning Domain #2: the company as the founder's complete operating environment. It supplies daily scaffolding, decision architecture, feedback systems, consequential demands, and activity calibrated to the pace and stakes of company-building.

The systems that make sustained functioning possible, including temporal structure, decision logic, feedback, social protocols, and contexts in which expertise can be deployed. In this architecture, the company may operate much of that infrastructure on the founder's behalf.

Model-level mechanism #6 through which intact high-agency capacities remain calibrated to the company environment after that environment has ceased to operate. The mismatch concerns deployment conditions and self-provisioning practice, while the founder's underlying capability remains intact.

The outward component of the Self-Legibility discrepancy signature: the distance between a person's capability and the capability an environment can detect. It concerns whether expertise and professional identity remain readable beyond the institution that previously supplied their context.

The instruments, feedback systems, relationships, and interpretive structures through which a person reads their functional state and operating requirements. This apparatus may be supplied by an institution or built and maintained independently.

A founder who has completed the sale of a company and departed from its leadership. The term marks separation from the operating institution, beyond a transaction alone.

One of five distinct infrastructure systems the company operates for the founder: Self-Definition Provisioning, Operating-Environment Provisioning, Meaning-System Provisioning, Social-World Provisioning, and Financial-Framework Provisioning. Each supplies infrastructure and maintains an associated state through ongoing operation.

One of eight irreducible consequences produced by deprovisioning at exit. Each is independently evidenced and serves as a causal source from which other disruptions may derive or emerge.

Provisioning Domain #1: the company as a self-definition engine. It continuously supplies role, narrative, recognition, decision authority, and the context through which the founder is visible to themselves and others.

Root phenomenon #1, produced when the founder's self-definition is displaced from the company that continuously maintained it. It concerns the first-person experience of identity and is distinct from the external recognition captured by Visibility Discontinuity.

A person's structurally mediated capacity to perceive, interpret, and render usable their own functional state, operating requirements, expertise, and professional identity, both to themselves and to others, independent of any single institutional, organizational, or relational context. It is the category on which the Structural Deprovisioning Model and Structural Repatriation™ Methodology depend.

The state in which professional and personal infrastructure operates independently of any single organization. Expertise remains readable across contexts, and the systems that sustain functioning are portable and independently maintained.

The active construction and maintenance of infrastructure that a company or institution previously operated for the person. Within Structural Repatriation™, it is the basis for durable functioning beyond a single organizational context.

Root phenomenon #4, produced when the company no longer supplies the framework connecting daily effort to significance. It concerns the absence of an operating architecture for why activity matters, while Contribution Vacuum concerns the recurring experience of producing value for others.

A disruption shaped by the founder's current circumstances rather than generated directly by one root phenomenon. It modifies how the broader architecture appears or intensifies in a particular case.

Provisioning Domain #4: the company as the founder's social infrastructure. It generates team relationships, professional networks, peer community, daily interaction, and a sustained pattern of mutual dependency organized around shared work.

Model-level mechanism #4 governing when specific consequences of deprovisioning become perceptible. All five domains are removed at exit, but their effects register on different timelines, causing the apparent scope of the event to expand over time.

The theoretical model explaining what happens when exit removes the company-based infrastructure a founder had built and operated within. It maps five provisioning domains, seven model-level mechanisms, eight root phenomena, and 30+ disruptions across five classification types.

Root phenomenon #3, produced when exit removes the operating scaffolding, decision architecture, feedback systems, and directed urgency supplied by the company. The founder's capability remains present while the structural interior through which it operated is absent.

The assessment that begins the Structural Repatriation™ Methodology and also operates as a standalone engagement. It produces a structural ground-truth inventory of the founder's current operating position, mapped against the Structural Deprovisioning Model.

The applied methodology for systematically identifying and reconstituting professional and personal infrastructure that became embedded in a founder's company during tenure. It is the methodological counterpart to the Structural Deprovisioning Model and begins with Structural Reconnaissance™.

Elizabeth Stief's intellectual system comprising Self-Legibility as the category, the Structural Deprovisioning Model as the explanatory model, and Structural Repatriation™ as the applied methodology. The dependency runs from category to model to methodology.

An institution or organization that supplies operating infrastructure across multiple domains of a person's life. A founder's company can become such an environment because it organizes identity, operations, significance, social relations, and financial context simultaneously.

Root phenomenon #2, produced when company-based recognition, authority, and social visibility cease to operate. It concerns how the founder is seen by others and remains distinct from the first-person self-definition captured by Selfhood Dislocation.