| Useful disagreement and unequal exposure | People need a way to make a consequential contribution under an acceptable exposure to risk. |
| Local experience and technical judgement | A recipient can expose a failed use; the warranted technical response still needs the appropriate expertise. |
| Distributed decisions | Agreement in one group cannot change another organization’s rules, resources or obligations. |
| Speed and meaningful influence | Another consultation is wasteful when it cannot change an action; skipping the excluded party can preserve the wrong action. |