Does your project match the system it's trying to govern?

A weighted diagnostic that reads your conservation project against the actual behaviour of complex adaptive systems — and tells you exactly where it carries structural risk.

Full weighted analysis · No information withheld · Built on 30 years of field practice across 5 continents

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Your Project

Context that allows the diagnostic to calibrate its analysis to your specific system type and stage.

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Lead Organisation

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Weight: 20%

System Characterisation

Mischaracterisation at this level cascades through every other design decision.

Weight: 20%

Permission & Legitimacy Foundations

Legitimacy is the load-bearing structure of everything that follows.

Weight: 10%

Power & Timing

Power operates before governance arrives. Timing is a design variable, not a logistical constraint.

Weight: 15%

Sequencing Logic

The most common and most costly errors rarely announce themselves.

Weight: 15%

Governance Architecture

Projects do not govern systems. Institutions do.

Weight: 10%

Finance Alignment

Finance is a lock, not a catalyst.

Weight: 10%

Adaptive Capacity & Learning

Learning is an operational governance function, not an evaluation afterthought.

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Step 1 of 3 · Document Upload

Upload Your Document

Upload a project proposal, strategy document, or management plan. The diagnostic will read it against the framework and identify what is present, absent, and contradicted — then ask targeted follow-up questions only for the gaps it cannot resolve from the document alone.

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Drop your document here or click to browse

The diagnostic will extract text and read it against all seven dimensions of the framework

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Extracting text from document

Reading against seven diagnostic dimensions

Identifying gaps, silences, and contradictions

Assessing evidence confidence

Preparing targeted follow-up questions

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Step 2 of 3 · Targeted Follow-Up

Resolving the Gaps

The document analysis identified gaps in several dimensions that could not be resolved from the document alone. The following questions target precisely those gaps.

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Systems Portrait

Nested layers represent foundational dependencies. Shading intensity reflects performance. Hollow cores reveal where structural foundations are missing.

Weighted Gap Analysis

Each dimension scored and interpreted in context. Expand any dimension to read the full analysis.

Pathway Framing

What this diagnostic reveals about the next intervention that matters most.

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Robert Primmer

Environmental Governance & Socio-Ecological Systems Design · 30 years of field practice

rob@restoreeden.com