Why Stratum exists
Anyone who has run enough pursuits knows the pattern.
A client requirement disappears between discovery and the proposal. A number makes its way into the workbook, but nobody can trace where it came from. A scope change gets agreed in one conversation, while the deck, commercial model, and delivery plan continue telling the old story.
None of these mistakes starts out looking serious. The problem is that the work becomes disconnected from the facts, assumptions, decisions, and evidence behind it.
Stratum began as one practitioner’s way of keeping that work straight.
What did the client actually say? What was assumed? What changed?
What does that change affect? And can every important claim, number, and commitment still be traced back to something real?
Over time, that working method became a system.
Stratum is that system built as software: connecting the context behind the work to the decisions, deliverables, and commitments that come from it.