The one you could not replace, on more than one machine.
Your best operator's way of working, on your iron, without them having to be in every seat at once, and with them paid for every hour of it. Your operator owns their skill, always and forever. What you license is a tool built from their record, under their name, and it stays theirs to end.
Teaching your own machine is not the same as hiring a name.
The first keeps your best operator's way of working on your own iron. The second brings a way of working nobody on your crew has, for the job that needs it, under the name of the person it belongs to. In both, the skill is the operator's and what you hold is a licence.
Your own operator, your own machine
Your best hand teaches it on your own machine, on your ground, and that way of working stays with you. Your operator, your machine, and it runs on your iron and on nobody else's. The skill behind it is your operator's, always, and the tool runs under their name. Every hour it runs is counted and charged the same as any other, the half of every one of those hours is paid to them, and they can end it. We never buy the skill behind it and we do not sell it to your neighbour.
A specialist's way of working, by name
Licensed for your job, under their name, with that operator paid for every hour it runs and able to end it. For the jobs that need a way of working nobody on your crew has. Nobody is hired and nobody is sent to your site.
An owner who only wants their own machines running their own way needs the first and never the second.
Found by the family of machine, picked by name, and the pick is the bill.
You tell us what you run. A person on your crew picks by name before the pass, and nothing runs, and nothing is charged, until they have.
Found by the family of machine.
You tell us what you run. A way of working is licensed for the family of machine it was taught on, and nothing is offered for a machine it was not taught on. If the family does not match, no listing shows. What you find in the repository is a named way of working, for the family of machine it was taught on, under the name of the person it belongs to.
Picked by name, before the pass.
Before the job, somebody on your crew picks whose way of working runs: the basics the machine came with, the way your own operator taught it, or a specialist licensed by name. They write their own name on the choice. No default and no last-used, and choosing nothing is a fair answer.
The pick is the clearance and the bill.
That single act is the human authorization the machine may not move without, and it is the start of the count that pays the person whose way of working was chosen. The clearance and the invoice come from the same record, which means neither can be quietly adjusted without the other.
Counted on the record that shows who cleared the work.
You are charged for the hours a licensed way of working is in use, kept in sessions, taken from the record that already carries the name of the person who chose. You see the hours as they are written. So does the person being paid, and it is the same record for each.
Ended by a choice, or by notice.
It ends when your crew chooses something else, when the job finishes, or when the person whose way of working it is withdraws. The hours under the earlier choice stop where the new one is written. A job already running finishes, and nothing new starts under a withdrawn way of working after the day the notice arrives.
Nobody is picked from a ranking. You ask for a person by name, because what you are buying is the day that went right and a score cannot show you one.
The first recordings come from crews we already work with, on machines they already run. The procedure that admits or refuses a record runs on us before it runs on anyone else.
Your operator, your machine, your ground, and it goes nowhere else.
We never buy the skill behind it and we do not sell it to your neighbour. The skill is your operator's and the name on it is theirs. You are charged for the hours it runs the same as for anyone's way of working, and your operator is paid the half of them.
Somebody on your crew still says go, every time.
A person chooses
Before every job, somebody picks whose way of working is running, and that choice is written down with their name on it. No default and no last-used.
A person clears it
Fitted and ready are states a machine reaches on its own. Cleared to work is your person's word, given on the day, after the walk-around.
Safety still outranks everyone
A way of working is software, and it sits at the bottom of the order of authority.
Withdrawal applies here too
The person whose way of working it is can withdraw it, your own operator included. You are told the day it arrives, and the job you are running finishes. Nothing new starts under it after that, so the next one goes back to your own operator's way or the basics the machine came with.
Every act has a name on it
Who chose, who cleared, whose way of working, and for how many hours, all on one record. When somebody later asks where a way of working came from and who cleared it, that record is the answer.
A release a named person signed, for the controls your machine already has.
Nothing comes to your site but a release, and nothing on your machine is changed to take it.
Built away from the machine, and signed before it crosses to your machine.
What we build is a tool, made from admitted records only, away from the machine, under the name of the person whose skill it is. No machine on a site is learning while it works, and no machine is changing its own way of working between one pass and the next. What reaches your machine from us is a release. A named person signs it, and the record of what went into it is kept from the first day rather than assembled when somebody asks. If a release is ever wrong, there is a name on it, and the question of what went in and who signed is answered by the record.
The machine your crew is running carries a released way of working or the basics it came with, and nothing in between.
- What arrives
- A release, with a named person's signature on itMade away from the machine, from admitted records only
- Where it runs
- On the controls your machine already hasFitted and ready are states a machine reaches on its own
- What it changes on the machine
- NothingYour machine's own safeguards are unchanged and still operating
- What it does on its own
- Nothing. It proposes, and a person authorizesLoaded is not cleared
- Where it may run
- On the job it was licensed for, and nowhere elseWhoever licenses it cannot pass it to anybody else
- Whose it is
- The skill is your operator's, and the name on the tool is theirsWhat you hold is a licence, for the job, and it stays theirs to end
- What it is not
- A person, a part, or anything that movesNobody is sent to your site, and Even Steven makes nothing that moves
A way of working, on your own machine's controls.
Nothing on your machine changes. What arrives is a release, and it runs on the controls your machine already has.
It is not a faster machine, a safety device, a legal opinion, or an empty site.
- 01It does not make your machine fasterA better way of working makes better decisions about when to move. Your hydraulics, your process and your material set the rest.
- 02It is not a safety deviceNothing here is an interlock and nothing here is a guard. No part of a safety case rests on it, and your machine's own safeguards are unchanged and still operating.
- 03We will not tell you about your warrantyWhether an arrangement affects a warranty, a conformity assessment or your liability position is for your counsel. We will not give you a legal opinion and you should not accept one from any vendor.
- 04It does not run your site without peopleIt proposes. A person authorizes. Somebody walks around the machine, starts it and clears it, on the day, every day.
Your operator is asked first, and their protections travel with them.
You can arrange a recording. Only the person in the seat can agree to one, and what they agree to is theirs to take back. This is the part written for the person with the least room to say no, and it is worth reading from the owner's side.
Your crew will ask whether this is AI taking their jobs. The answer is not yours to give them. Their own page says it, and it says they are asked first, paid every hour, named on it, free to end it, and that the skill stays theirs. Send them to it and let them read it without you.
What they will read on their own pageThey are asked first
An owner can arrange a recording. Only the person in the seat can agree to one, and they are told what is recorded, in plain words, before it starts. Without their yes there is no session, whatever has been arranged.
The right to withdraw is theirs
They gave the consent, so they can take it back, and it does not require your agreement or anybody else's. You are told the day it arrives, and the job you are running finishes.
It stays with you
What your operator taught your machine stays with you, and it goes nowhere else without a fresh agreement carrying their signature. It never enters the repository on its own. The skill behind it is theirs, always, and the tool runs under their name. The hours it runs on your machines are counted and charged like any other, your operator is paid the half of them, and they can end it.
It is not supplied against them
A recording is licensed for the uses the person said yes to. A use they did not say yes to, an employer wanting it for discipline or a dismissal included, is not one we supply it for.
Nothing of ours is wired in
The recorder watches from outside the machine. No harness is cut, no controller is touched, no power is taken off the machine. A photograph of the disconnected state goes into the record, before and after.
The second signature
Where the place they work gives a works council, a union or another body a say in whether recording happens at all, the instrument is built to take that second signature rather than to work around it.
What a safety officer will ask, and what the record answers.
Every answer below is something a person can walk up to and check, or read off the record with a name against it.
| The question | The answer |
|---|---|
| Is anything of yours wired to the machine while a person works? | Nothing. The recorder watches from outside it. No harness is cut, no controller is touched, no power is taken off the machine, and a photograph of the disconnected state goes into the record, before and after. |
| Who clears the machine? | A person on your crew, on the day, after the walk-around, with their name on it. Fitted and ready are states a machine reaches on its own. Cleared to work is a person's word. |
| Who was in the seat, and whose way of working ran? | One record carries it: who chose, who cleared, whose way of working, and for how many hours. When somebody later asks, that record is the answer. |
| What happens on my site when the person withdraws? | You are told the day the notice arrives. Nothing new starts under it, the job you are running finishes, and the next one goes back to your own operator's way or the basics the machine came with. |
A contract to read, a count to check, and no legal opinion from us.
The answers procurement will want, in the words the agreement is being built around.
It is being written, and it goes up in plain words before anyone signs
The agreements are being written now. The points they are being built around are on the covenant, and when the terms are settled they go up in plain words, on the covenant and on this page, before anyone is asked to sign anything. Nobody signs anything before then. The licence to a maker or a fleet owner is issued through the Tacit Tessera register, which writes the number, licenses the entry and counts every use. Tacit Tessera keeps the register and the count. A fleet owner is a licensee like any other, and the licence it takes is its own paper. The paper the person whose way of working it is signed stays with Even Steven, and neither becomes the other.
The covenantEvery hour in use, at a ceiling that is published
It is not a one-time fee, and it is not a share of somebody's net that nobody outside can check. You pay for the hours a licensed way of working is in use, at a ceiling that is published. The rate is written once, on the covenant, and this page carries it below in the same words.
What it costs youWe will not give you one, and you should not accept one from any vendor
Whether an arrangement affects a warranty, a conformity assessment or your liability position is for your counsel. What we can show you is how the thing works: what is recorded, what is not, where it is kept, who can reach it, and what happens when somebody says stop.
Whoever licenses it cannot pass it to anybody else
It runs only where it is licensed. Whoever licenses it runs it on the job it was licensed for, and nowhere else. A session is what is licensed, it is information about an identifiable person, and it goes nowhere without their yes.
Fair is fairYou are told first, so nobody is left short
From the day the notice arrives, nothing new starts under it. The job you are running finishes, and the next one goes back to your own operator's way or the basics the machine came with. The hours already run are counted and paid like any other.
Ending itThe same count, the same hours, on the same record
You see the count as it is written, session by session, and it is what you are charged for. There is no second ledger kept somewhere else to reconcile it against, because the record is the ledger. Your person's name is on every choice, so when somebody later asks who cleared a job and whose way of working it ran, the count is the answer.
The countConsent is separate agreements checked live at the moment of recording, not one signature buried in an equipment contract. The count comes from the same record as the clearance, and both sides read it. The name stays on it, and nothing runs under a house name; a number is written beside the name, never instead of it. Ending it is free, with two true dates. We never buy it, and the whole is never sold flat.
Why it is differentCharged for the hours in use, counted in sessions, at a stated ceiling.
The most a way of working costs you is five dollars per machine-hour in use, and half of that reaches the person whose way of working it is. The count is kept in sessions, each carrying its own identifier and signature. Nothing is signed yet.
You are charged for the hours a licensed way of working is actually in use, counted from the same record that shows who authorized the work. You will see the hours. So will the person being paid.
The rate above is the one the agreement is being built around. The terms under it are still being written, and they will be on this page in plain words before anyone is asked to sign anything.
What your crew, your safety people and your counsel will ask.
You tell us what you run. A way of working is found by the family of machine, picked by name before the pass, and the pick is the clearance and the bill. You are charged for hours in use, counted in sessions, at a stated ceiling, and you see the count on the same record as the person being paid. What you hold is a licence, and the skill stays the operator's.
The repositoryWhat you know stays yours. What is made of your skill is Even Steven's, for you. You are paid for every hour a tool under your name is in use, your name stays on it, you can end it on notice at no cost, and you can check the count against the record that shows who cleared the work.
If it is your way of workingA way of working proposes and never authorizes. Loaded is not cleared. Nothing here is an interlock or a guard, and no part of a safety case rests on it.
SafetyWe give no legal opinion on warranty, conformity or liability. The agreement is being written, and its terms go up in plain words, here and on the covenant, before anyone is asked to sign anything. Whoever licenses a way of working cannot pass it to anybody else.
The covenantTell us the machine, and the seat you cannot fill.
If you own the machines, write to us with what you run and the job in front of you, and a person answers in plain words. Writing to us puts you on nothing and commits you to nothing.