Basis Land  ·  The Basis Check

How far does your home go?

Most readiness tools count what is in your cupboards. This one asks how long your home holds, what happens when the stored things run out, and how much you would not need in the first place.

Readiness is not a bigger pile.
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What it measures

Five dimensions, one number.

I · Capacity
How long you hold.
Water, food, energy and heat, money, medication, counted in days. Your range is your weakest lifeline, never the average.
II · Capability
What you can do.
Making water safe, cooking without power, a repair, a burn, a night without heating. Skills do not run out.
III · Awareness
Whether you would know.
An alert without the internet. A radio that works. A plan the household has agreed.
IV · Connection
Who is within reach.
Neighbours you could ask tonight. Someone who would notice your silence.
V · Independence
How little you need.
The only score that rises as your possessions fall. What you produce rather than store.
Two rules that decide the score
Your weakest lifeline is your range. Thirty days of food and one day of water is one day.
You cannot buy your way up. A home supplied only by the grid and by what it has stored cannot pass Transitioner, however full the shelves are.
What your score says

Four rungs. One ladder.

0 – 2
Dependent
Fully tethered to systems you don’t control, which is why the noise feels loud. Nothing is wrong with you. Start with one subtraction.
3 – 5
Transitioner
The cords are starting to come off. You have tools; what’s thin is skill-depth and local people. Focus there next.
6 – 8
Sovereign
Quiet, capable, grounded: a whole system taking shape. You’re ready to move from learning to contributing.
9 – 10
Node
A pillar of the network, the anchor others look to. The work now is holding steady, and passing it on.

Range keeps this same Readiness Score, updated as things change.

After the number

One number is a start. Keeping it is the practice.

Range reads your lifelines directly instead of taking your word for it, and keeps the number current as things change.

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