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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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One-line read
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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One-line read
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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One-line read
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 ____.
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