POSITIONING AND STANDARDS

The 3 C’s

Compression, Clairvoyance, Command - what a business should get from AI.

Definition

Compression, Clairvoyance, Command: what a business should get from AI. Work compressed, what’s coming seen earlier, and the owner more in command - not less.

Why it exists

Most AI promises stop at speed. The 3 C’s exist to hold the bar higher: faster work that reduces foresight or control is a bad trade.

Example

A weekly picture of the pipeline the owner did not have to compile - and could not previously see - is Clairvoyance doing its job.

Change control

21 July 2026 - Drafted in Foundation Content v0.1.

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Referenced by

No published piece declares this term yet. The list fills itself as the corpus grows.