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Digital Insurgency · Field Kit · Appendix B
THE INFILTRATION CANVAS
Operator: ________________Date: 2026-07-23
1 — ENVIRONMENT (the physics)
- Vendor Gravity F_g — replace or sidecar?
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- Entropy Tax E_tax — cost/day, curve bending?
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- Legacy Friction μ_leg + Debt Compound D_comp — building or drowning?
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- Theater Ratio R_t — do they ship, or announce?
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- One-line read
- This account is a ____-gravity well; the right entry is ____.
2 — PEOPLE (the factions)
- Technocrat (architecture) — name · fear · win with
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- Bureaucrat (process/security) — name · fear · win with
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- Shadow Warlord (budget, off-org-chart) — name · fear · win with
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- Champion / User Buyer (the bleeding neck) — name · what makes them want to quit
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- Shadow Sponsor (senior cover) — name, or: none yet
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- The Three Ghosts — which past vendor/migration/cloud trauma haunts this room?
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- Enter through ____; pitch ____ for money, ____ for credibility, bribe ____ with compliance artifacts.
3 — QUALIFICATION (is it alive?)
- Zombie Score = (Pain×5)+(Timeline×3)+(Budget×5) — total /65
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- Pain Owner — the named human who bleeds from this problem
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- Timeline — the real by-when with a real consequence
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- Budget Code — does my contact control or sit one desk from the money?
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- Vaporware check I_v — my adjectives ÷ my live-demo minutes
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- One-line read
- 🟢/🟡/🔴 — if 🔴, send the Breakup Email and move my blood somewhere it circulates.
4 — CAMOUFLAGE (architecture as disguise)
- Relabels — 'AI Inference Layer' → · 'Event Mesh' → · 'ML pipeline' →
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- Box count — ≤6 boxes, all names the ARB has approved before? Y/N
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- Strangler plan — intercept → observe → route → strangle. Current phase
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- Inception script — which Socratic questions lead them to draw MY diagram?
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- The ARB will read this as a ____ and approve it without seeing the ____ inside.
5 — SHIELD (weaponized bureaucracy)
- Audit Defense D_audit = certs × scope / auditor_fear
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- Certs in hand / inheritable from cloud (GovCloud → FedRAMP, etc.)
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- Synthetic data ready? (kills the privacy review) Y/N
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- Comparison matrix — control points where I beat the incumbent ___ / total ___
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- One-line read
- Keeping the legacy vendor is the risky choice because ____.
6 — MATH (the economics of safety)
- Legacy Liability L_legacy at r=0.17 → 3yr · 5yr · 10yr
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- Self-Funding S_fc = (human − AI) / pilot — need > 5
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- The One-Sheet — daily cost of inaction = $/day = $/yr
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- Budget pocket — CapEx or OpEx? which quarter? who signs under threshold?
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- One-line read
- Doing nothing costs $____ a day. Here's the fire under your chair.
7 — INVASION PLAN (shadow → system of record)
- Reversibility R_r = blast / rollback; kill switch reverts in ___ ms
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- Wedge Velocity V_w = pain × trust / friction — need > 10, adopt-friction = 1
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- Trust/Risk T_r target before going live (>10,000 primary; >100,000 SoR)
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- 4 phases — Shadow (read-only) → Canary (1–5%) → Strangle → System of Record. Current:
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- Risk-inversion trigger — what crisis makes turning me OFF the dangerous move?
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- I run silent until T_r is undeniable, then I push the alert.
8 — PRE-MORTEM (the Mirror Test, last)
- Soul Score S_soul — is what I'm smuggling medicine or poison? net
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- Empathy gap — whose fear did I fail to neutralize?
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- The Keisha risk — if this gets someone fired, is it me protecting them, or me?
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- Good Trouble GT = (impact × alignment) / (risk + friction) — need > 2
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- One-line read
- If this works, the portrait heals by ____%. If it doesn't, the failure mode is ____.