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 "content_md": "# A drawing-sheet kit for the year\n\nEvery figure on this site is drawn the same way: hairlines on paper, centre lines, dimension ticks, numbered callouts, hatching for anything solid, and a small title block. It is the language of architectural and engineering drawings, and it fits the subject. A drawing set is itself a protocol: a few strict conventions that let many trades build one thing without meeting.\n\nWe've collected those drawings, and a set of banners, call backgrounds and post images made in the same style, into one kit: **[protocolvision.org/kit](https://protocolvision.org/kit/)**. Everything there is free for members and friends of the group to use.\n\n![The hard core drawing from theme V drafting itself: a hatched core rising through free floor plates, line by line.](https://protocolsforbusiness.com/blyg/media/0cf2948ef01065cb.svg)\n\n## The four concepts\n\nThe banners and posts are built on four drawings, each one an idea from the practice guide.\n\n- **Protocol vision.** A network of protocols, mostly in fog, with patches of focus drifting across it. Inside the focus the links sharpen, the hard ones show in colour, and the protocols get names: approval, handoff, permission, spend limit. Seeing the protocols a business runs on is the first step.\n- **Hard core.** The network zooms into its centre, which resolves into eight protocols most companies seem to share: signing authority, spending limits, payment approval, access rights, change control, data out, output checks and an audit trail. The list is a proposal the group is testing.\n- **Core plan.** An architect's floor plan: a grid of columns with the structural core hatched in the middle and a dimension line marked *keep small*. In a building, the core is the part that holds the rest up. It is also the mark of the new advisory page.\n- **Interface.** One hard line with branches growing from it that nobody planned. A protocol does its job by widening what others can do.\n\n![The core plan mark: a three-by-three grid of columns with the structural core hatched in the middle.](https://protocolsforbusiness.com/blyg/media/4d186d5c261b68f5.svg)\n\n## The figures from this site\n\nThe kit also holds the drawings from the Research, Sessions and About pages, now with animated versions that draft themselves line by line:\n\n- **The six themes:** Braitenberg vehicles around a light (agents), a murmuration of starlings with one bird's seven neighbours (nature), signals spreading in rings (emissions), a crack across a grid of blocks (incidents), a hard core rising through floor plates (hardness) and a heartbeat trace (liveness).\n- **The practice:** an append-only field log, bacteria switching on together past a quorum threshold, lines converging on a single point, and the hard core in axonometric.\n\n## Formats\n\nEach concept comes as a LinkedIn banner, a video-call background, a post image, a square post, a story and an X or Bluesky header, in light and dark mode, with a forest or cobalt accent. The animated ones also come as MP4 and GIF. Call backgrounds keep the drawing to one side, so it doesn't sit behind your head; LinkedIn banners keep it to the right, clear of your profile photo.\n\nClick any image on the kit page to see it full screen and zoom in.\n\n## For assistants\n\nEvery asset has a written description on the page, and [index.json](https://protocolvision.org/kit/index.json) lists each one with its address, size and format. An assistant asked to \"find a drawing of a hard core for my slides\" can read the list and pick one.\n\nIf you use the kit, tell us where; if a concept is missing, propose one in a session.\n",
 "content_html": "<h1>A drawing-sheet kit for the year</h1>\n<div class=\"blyg-tk-gen\"><p>Every figure on this site is drawn the same way: hairlines on paper, centre lines, dimension ticks, numbered callouts, hatching for anything solid, and a small title block. It is the language of architectural and engineering drawings, and it fits the subject. A drawing set is itself a protocol: a few strict conventions that let many trades build one thing without meeting.</p>\n<p>We've collected those drawings, and a set of banners, call backgrounds and post images made in the same style, into one kit: <strong><a href=\"https://protocolvision.org/kit/\">protocolvision.org/kit</a></strong>. Everything there is free for members and friends of the group to use.</p>\n<p><img alt=\"The hard core drawing from theme V drafting itself: a hatched core rising through free floor plates, line by line.\" src=\"https://protocolsforbusiness.com/blyg/media/0cf2948ef01065cb.svg\"></p>\n<h2>The four concepts</h2>\n<p>The banners and posts are built on four drawings, each one an idea from the practice guide.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Protocol vision.</strong> A network of protocols, mostly in fog, with patches of focus drifting across it. Inside the focus the links sharpen, the hard ones show in colour, and the protocols get names: approval, handoff, permission, spend limit. Seeing the protocols a business runs on is the first step.</li>\n<li><strong>Hard core.</strong> The network zooms into its centre, which resolves into eight protocols most companies seem to share: signing authority, spending limits, payment approval, access rights, change control, data out, output checks and an audit trail. The list is a proposal the group is testing.</li>\n<li><strong>Core plan.</strong> An architect's floor plan: a grid of columns with the structural core hatched in the middle and a dimension line marked <em>keep small</em>. In a building, the core is the part that holds the rest up. It is also the mark of the new advisory page.</li>\n<li><strong>Interface.</strong> One hard line with branches growing from it that nobody planned. A protocol does its job by widening what others can do.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><img alt=\"The core plan mark: a three-by-three grid of columns with the structural core hatched in the middle.\" src=\"https://protocolsforbusiness.com/blyg/media/4d186d5c261b68f5.svg\"></p>\n<h2>The figures from this site</h2>\n<p>The kit also holds the drawings from the Research, Sessions and About pages, now with animated versions that draft themselves line by line:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The six themes:</strong> Braitenberg vehicles around a light (agents), a murmuration of starlings with one bird's seven neighbours (nature), signals spreading in rings (emissions), a crack across a grid of blocks (incidents), a hard core rising through floor plates (hardness) and a heartbeat trace (liveness).</li>\n<li><strong>The practice:</strong> an append-only field log, bacteria switching on together past a quorum threshold, lines converging on a single point, and the hard core in axonometric.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Formats</h2>\n<p>Each concept comes as a LinkedIn banner, a video-call background, a post image, a square post, a story and an X or Bluesky header, in light and dark mode, with a forest or cobalt accent. The animated ones also come as MP4 and GIF. Call backgrounds keep the drawing to one side, so it doesn't sit behind your head; LinkedIn banners keep it to the right, clear of your profile photo.</p>\n<p>Click any image on the kit page to see it full screen and zoom in.</p>\n<h2>For assistants</h2>\n<p>Every asset has a written description on the page, and <a href=\"https://protocolvision.org/kit/index.json\">index.json</a> lists each one with its address, size and format. An assistant asked to \"find a drawing of a hard core for my slides\" can read the list and pick one.</p>\n<p>If you use the kit, tell us where; if a concept is missing, propose one in a session.</p></div>",
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