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Route / 6 steps

The review

The agreement six months on: what has moved, what is out of date, and what the two of you would write differently.

Who this is for

You signed something six months ago and neither of you has looked at it since.

What it is

Six steps. Retake the Sounding, keep a fortnight of daily readings, read back everything you have changed, hold the conversation with the agenda already written, amend what needs it, and sign again.

The steps, in order

You can take them out of order. Nothing here locks a module, and no step waits on the one before it.

  • Movement

    Retake it in six months and see what moved.

    Retake the Sounding. One measurement is a snapshot; two are a direction.

  • Weather Report

    Ten seconds, once a day, three numbers each.

    A fortnight of daily readings, so the review has something other than memory to work from.

  • The Log

    Word-level diffs of every change you ever made.

    Everything you have changed since you signed, in the order you changed it.

  • The Walkthrough

    The agenda writes itself from everything else.

    The conversation itself, with the agenda already written from everything above.

  • Your Terms

    Ten sections. Plain language. Both signatures.

    Change what needs changing. Leaving a section exactly as it was is also a decision.

  • The Signing

    A ceremony, or a countersignature. Your choice.

    Sign the amended version. The one you signed before stays readable.

A route, not a gate

A route is a named list of modules with something written down at the end of it. Nothing in a route locks anything, and you can take the steps out of order.

Why a route rather than a list

Thirty-two modules is a lot to look at when you do not yet know which of them you need. A route is somebody having already answered that: these ones, in this order, because the earlier ones give the later ones something to work from. The Structural Report is easier to write an agreement from than a blank page, and it needs two finished Soundings before it exists at all.

What it does not do

It does not lock anything, and it is not a course. Nothing is withheld until you finish a step, there is no schedule, and stopping halfway costs you nothing — what you wrote stays written and the modules stay open. Where a module genuinely needs both of you, that module is what waits, exactly as it would if you had opened it on your own.

What it never shows either of you

A route shows where each of you has got to and nothing else. It does not record how long anything took, or how long the other one has left something undone. Elapsed time is not a number this product prints about a person.