The reviewer must also be reviewable.
A citizen council cannot be judged by saying “there were good discussions”. Every six-month cohort begins with a public result contract and leaves behind measurable deliverables, open issues and a verifiable handover.
A time-limited role with training, conflict-of-interest controls and real oversight responsibility.
Taxable gross salary in the base scenario. Protected leave and a right to return to the ordinary job require legal safeguards.
Goals, baselines, measures, evidence, recipients, deadlines and delivery gates are fixed before the cohort starts.
The council must show both that the commissioned review happened and whether verified findings actually led to correction or risk reduction.
Learning → oversight → handover.
Choose a month to see what the council should do and which delivery gate must be satisfied.
Build a measurable contract for one council cohort.
The demo uses five goals — within the book's three-to-seven range. Change the goals and outcomes. There is deliberately no single “council score”; one number would create a new Goodhart risk.
Result card · council operations
Measures whether the commissioned oversight work was actually performed.
Result card · control effect
Measures followed-up correction and continuity. The council does not replace the action package's own public-outcome goals.
Contract evidence
Each month can run as a four-week control sprint.
Critical rights, safety or privacy risks do not wait until week four; they are escalated immediately.
“Find 50 errors” is not a legitimate target.
The council is not rewarded for the volume of criticism. Quality is judged through traceable evidence, materiality, independent verification, corrective effect and the action package's actual public outcomes.
After every cohort, an independent assurance function reviews both the council's method and its own result reporting.
Council members have both rights and duties.
Illness or parental leave is not misconduct. Voluntary resignation is not fraud. But unauthorised data access, concealed conflicts or deliberate abuse must be stoppable and reviewable.
Test an interruption scenario
See what can be done immediately, what requires investigation and how the unranked reserve pool keeps the council operating.
Open Integrity & employment →Every council should leave behind more verifiable knowledge than it received.
Final report
Every pre-set goal is classified as achieved, partly achieved, not achieved, or not measurable with sufficient evidence.
Machine-readable handover
Open deviations, owners, deadlines, evidence and version history pass to the next cohort — not just oral memory.
Closing conference
Majority and any minority assessments, independent assurance and remaining risks are presented publicly.
Back to participation premium → Read the operating specification →
See how the parts connect in one lifecycle.
Run a fictional participant from secret ballot and participation token through premium, 72-hour choice and four-year cooldown into a six-month citizen council and verifiable handover.