OCE.3:4.1 - Pattern-Use Unfolding

1. Bind the comparison. Name organization, contribution, decision authority, horizon, current account, non-negotiables, and tolerated or blocking gaps.
2. State comparison dimensions before forms. Name the supplied-result, Work, specialization, eligibility, assignment, authority, access, information-use, service and coordination relations that can change the decision. Keep differences in product/service architecture, human–AI or provider arrangements, capability, coexistence conditions and burden explicit.
3. Choose bounded participants. Invite or otherwise obtain contributions from participants whose knowledge of actual Work, burden, local adaptation, authority, safety, service or providers can alter the candidate set or comparison. Record missing participation and protection limits; preserve decision authority separately.
4. Generate materially different alternatives. Include incumbent-plus-repair; a changed specialization, contribution, or authority configuration; and a boundary/provider or human–AI alternative when plausible. Each alternative must change at least one named decision-bearing relation. Stop when another variant changes no live assumption or criterion, or record the unmet generation need.
5. Decide whether retained exploration is current. For a one-time small decision set, proceed without Archive/Front apparatus. Use C.18 only for retained or open-ended exploration; use C.17 only to characterize candidates already present.
6. Describe selected structures. Name possible constituents and relations. Use charts, maps, scenarios, prototypes, or mathematical lenses only for declared questions and state their losses.
7. Expose feasibility assumptions. State required capabilities, authority, resource access, provider commitments, product/service claims, participation conditions, and continuing-service constraints.
8. Compare contributions and burdens. Compare intended contribution, coordination, resilience, affected-System consequences, participant burden, service interruption, reversibility, and uncertainty.
9. Choose, narrow, probe, or stop. Select under named authority, retain ties, or request the specialist result that changes the comparison. Selection does not establish organization relations.
10. Return constraints and reopen evidence. Supply the selected questions and assumptions to downstream patterns and name observations that reopen them.