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The Model

How Dioratikos is structured

The Dioratikos Model describes how patterns operate within and across systems.

It provides a way to locate:

  • what is being observed
  • at what level
  • and how naming produces visibility

The model is not a framework for action.
It is a structure for perception.

Units of analysis

Dioratikos does not analyse individuals, roles, or organisations as primary units.

Its primary unit of analysis is the pattern.

A pattern is a stable configuration of relationships, incentives, constraints, and responses that persists across time.

Individuals and organisations are sites where patterns express themselves, not the source of the pattern itself.

Systems at scale

Systems exist at multiple scales simultaneously.

An individual exists within family systems, cultural systems, economic systems, and internal identity systems.
An organisation exists within markets, regulatory environments, histories, and social norms.

Dioratikos treats systems as nested environments, not isolated containers.

Patterns at one scale influence and constrain patterns at another.

Individuals as multi-system actors

Individuals are not single units inside systems. They are multi-system actors shaped simultaneously by role, relationship, incentive, identity, and consequence.

Behaviour changes not because the individual is inconsistent, but because the systemic context changes.

Dioratikos accounts for this by observing how the same pattern expresses differently across systems.

This prevents personalisation of structural effects.

Nested cylindrical systems containing multiple active elements.

Signal, pattern, system

The model distinguishes between three levels of observation.

A side-view diagram showing the same elements reorganised at each level.
Signal, Pattern, and System are not stages of creation. They are stages of perception. The system already exists. Pattern recognition makes it visible. Signal is what draws attention to it.
Signal

A signal is a visible disturbance.

It may appear as tension, conflict, confusion, fatigue, delay, or inconsistency.

Signals draw attention, but they do not explain themselves.

Pattern

A pattern is the organising logic behind repeated signals.

It explains:

  • why the same issues recur
  • why effort does not resolve them
  • why different people reproduce similar outcomes

Patterns are stable even when surface conditions change.

System

A system is the environment that sustains the pattern.

It includes:

  • roles and authority
  • incentives and risks
  • norms and permissions
  • constraints and consequences

Patterns persist because the system continues to make them viable.

Naming as intervention

The Dioratikos Model holds that visibility precedes choice.

Naming a pattern does not alter the system.
It alters what can be seen.

Once a pattern is named:

  • the system no longer compensates blindly
  • responsibility can be located accurately
  • response becomes possible without distortion

This is the only intervention the model claims.

Observer position

Structural visibility requires distance.

Dioratikos positions the observer outside the system long enough to recognise what cannot be seen from within it.

This distance is not emotional disengagement.
It is removal from consequence, role, and loyalty.

Without this repositioning, patterns collapse into interpretation.

What the model does and does not do

The Dioratikos Model:

  • reveals organising patterns
  • distinguishes structure from behaviour
  • separates signal from cause
  • stabilises perception

The Dioratikos Model does not:

  • prescribe solutions
  • redesign systems
  • implement change
  • manage behaviour

Those choices remain with the system.

How this model is used

This model underpins:

Its function is to make systems legible before action is taken.