One session of you working, from start to stop.
A session is one continuous recording. It begins when you press start and ends when you press stop, and everything it carries is fixed between those two acts. It was designed around the person it records, so that what you know is protected, is yours to use on your terms, and pays you. This page is what it holds, what admits it, what you can ask to see, and whose it is.
It starts when you say so, and it stops the same way.
A session has no automatic beginning. You press start, and from then until you press stop the recorder watches the seat. Nothing is added to it afterwards and nothing is taken out. Stop is pressed by a person too, and what was recorded up to that moment is the session.
A session gets a name when somebody presses start, and that name is its identifier. It gets a seal when somebody presses stop, and that seal is its signature. One seal goes over the whole record at once, the recording, the photograph, the morning check, the notes and the names, and that one seal over all of it is the chain.
Two sessions on the same day are two records. Each has its own identifier and its own signature, so it counts itself, and it is licensed, paid for and withdrawn on its own. Nothing of yours goes into a built thing with another person's work unless you said yes to that, separately.
You own your skill, always and forever. A session is the record of it, and the unit of everything here: what you license, what the hours are attributed to, and what you take back when you end it.
Where a record goes after you press stop, who can see it, and why deleting every copy takes longer than stopping it, written for a person reading at the end of a shift.
Where it is keptWhat a session carries.
A session is more than the recording. It carries the who, the what and the how of that day, so that years later nobody has to remember and nobody has to be believed.
- Who was in the seat
- The person, by name, and the agreement that covered them at the moment the recording was made
- The machine
- Which machine it was, and how it was set up, so the record is read against the machine it came from
- The fitting that day
- How the recorder was put on: the photograph of the disconnected state, the check that nothing is connected, and the set-up as it was left
- The morning check
- The check made on the recorder before the first session of the day, and kept with every session made under it
- The three things, one clock
- What your hands did, what the machine did back, and what you were looking at when you acted, timed together
- The ground and the conditions
- What the ground did is recorded too. The ground, the material and the weather are noted as the crew found them
- The moments
- Notes made against the clock, so the places where the technique shows can be found again later
- The chain
- One chain over the whole record, signed, so an altered reading fails the same check as an altered picture
One identifier, one signature, so it counts itself.
Everything here is licensed, counted and taken back in sessions. A session can carry all three because it carries its own identifier and its own signature, and nobody keeps a tally for you somewhere else.
The count is kept in sessions. A session is one recording, with its own identifier and its own signature, so it counts itself rather than being counted for you. It is what is licensed, what the hours are attributed to, and what you take back when you end it.
The covenant, clause three
Named as it starts, signed as it closes
A session gets its identifier when a person presses start and its signature when a person presses stop. Neither is issued later by somebody at a desk, and neither can be issued twice. From then on the two travel with the session wherever it goes: through the checks, into a built thing, onto the count, and out again when you withdraw it.
Its own line of the count
A way of working is the name here for how you run a machine once it has been recorded, admitted and built. When one runs on a job, the hours are attributed to the sessions in use, on the record that already carries the name of the person who chose. There is no second ledger kept somewhere else to reconcile it against, because the record is the ledger, and you can open it.
Licensed, paid for and withdrawn on its own
What happens to one session does not decide what happens to another. You can leave one in service and take another out, and the count for the one you keep goes on being written. The unit you are paid in and the unit you take back are the same unit.
The claim a person made, and can be held to.
Nothing of ours is connected to the machine while you work. A record has to be able to show that to somebody who was not there, on a day nobody remembers, and a line in a log does not do it.
A box ticked in software is a claim software makes about itself.
The photograph of the disconnected state is a claim a person made, on the day, with their name on it. It sits inside the record where it cannot be swapped out quietly, beside the check that nothing was connected and the set-up as it was left.
A session without it cannot show its set-up, and a session that cannot show its set-up is refused, however good the day was. The photograph is the part of the record a person can walk up to and check.
The technique is in the moments, and the moments are in the record.
Most of a session is a machine doing what a machine does. The moments where it mattered are short, and a record that cannot find them again is a long recording and nothing more.
A place in the record to say where to look.
The person in the seat, or somebody working with them, can note a moment against the session's clock. A note does not change the recording. It marks a place in it, and it carries four things.
- 01WhenThe time on the session's own clock, so the note lands on the span it belongs to and nowhere else.
- 02WhatWhat was seen, in the words of whoever saw it. A lever eased off early, a pass taken twice, a bucket that came up clean.
- 03What was going onThe job at that moment: the ground, the load, the weather, and the thing that made it hard.
- 04Who said soThe person who made the note, by name.
So the record opens at the right place.
A note is a bookmark, not a verdict. When somebody comes back to a session to learn from it, the notes are where they start, and they find what happened, timed and signed, with the name of whoever pointed at it.
Nothing in a note grades the moment. It says where a moment is, and leaves what it was worth to the people who read it.
A written procedure, with every reason named.
Before anyone learns from a session it goes through the same checks as every other, and it comes out admitted or refused. Refused always comes with its reason, and every reason is one of these.
- The record is incomplete: a field the record needs is missing, or the chain does not verify.
- The consent was not live: the agreement covering the recording was not in force when it was made.
- The set-up cannot be shown: something was connected that should not have been, the photograph or the check is missing, the machine does not match what was set up, or the morning check is not the one kept with the session.
The ground, the material and the weather are not fields the record needs. When they are missing they are noted as missing, and the session goes through.
- The ground.
- The material.
- The weather.
Refused is not a criticism
Every reason on the list is about equipment or paperwork. Nothing in the procedure grades how you worked, and nothing anywhere else does either.
Kept, with its reason
A refused session is not thrown away. It is kept, and the reason travels with it, because a record of what went wrong is worth as much to us as a record of what went right.
An alteration cannot hide in a session.
A record is worth something only if it cannot be tidied up afterwards.
The record is held inside one chain and signed, and the signature covers all of it: the recording, the photograph, the morning check, the notes, the names. Change any part of it afterwards and the chain stops verifying, and the refusal names the first place it failed.
So a session does not ask to be trusted. A person who was not there can check it and be told either that it holds, or the first place where it does not. An altered photograph fails the same check as an altered reading.
What the chain shows
That the record is as it was when it was made, from the press of start to the press of stop, and that nothing was put in or taken out on the way.
What it does not show
How well anyone worked. The chain has no opinion about the person in the seat. It only knows whether the record is whole.
The seat it was made in is part of the record.
A way of working is licensed for the family of machine it was taught on, and nothing is offered for a machine it was not taught on.
Read against the machine it came from.
A session names the machine it was made on and how that machine was set up, because what a person did at the controls only means something beside what the machine did back, and a different machine answers differently.
So the record is read against the machine it came from, and a way of working is licensed for the family of machine it was taught on. Nothing is offered for a machine it was not taught on. The repository is where an owner finds one by the family of machine, and the record is what says which family that is.
Whatever the seat, the session is the same shape, and it is read against the machine that seat was in.
What you can ask to see.
A record about you that you cannot open is a record kept on you. Yours opens to you, session by session, and the door is yours and not your employer's.
- What was recorded, session by session, with the machine and the day on each.
- What was admitted and what was refused, with the reason named.
- What was built from it, and where it is listed under your name.
- The hours it has worked and what you are owed, checked against the record that shows who cleared the work.
- The day a withdrawal took effect, and the true date every copy is gone.
Who else sees what
Your employer does not see your record. An owner sees the hours on their own machines, and nothing else of yours. The people who run a session through the checks see equipment and paperwork, and no check anywhere grades how you worked.
What you can do from it
Check the count against the record that shows who cleared the work. Ask for an accounting, because the count is one record both sides read and the money is owed with it. Say no to a use. Withdraw. The right to withdraw is yours, and it does not require your employer's agreement or anybody else's.
Not a performance review, and not supplied for discipline.
A recording is licensed for the uses you said yes to. A use you did not say yes to, your employer wanting it for discipline or a dismissal included, is not one we supply it for.
The count written against a session is the hours a way of working built from it was in use on somebody's job, and not the hours you sat in the seat.
The countNothing in a session says how well you worked, and nothing built from one does either. The checks a session goes through are about equipment and paperwork, and no check anywhere grades how you worked. A note in the record says where a moment is, not what it was worth.
An owner can arrange a recording, and an owner can license a way of working. Neither buys them a use you did not say yes to, and discipline is a use. The rights that attach to a session are yours and not your employer's.
A session is admitted or refused on equipment and paperwork alone, and nothing sorts one record against another. Whether the work was good is a thing the people who asked for you already know.
A session is information about an identifiable person. It goes nowhere without their yes, and whoever licenses a way of working cannot pass it to anybody else. We never sell a record on.
A record used to train a model, which is most of what people mean when they say AI, is a different thing from a record used to run a machine, and it is asked for on its own, with the limit stated first. Nothing learns from your record unless you said yes to that, and nothing built from it runs without paying you.
Machines that learn
Kept whole for as long as it is licensed.
The count is written against it and you may ask to check it, so it stays whole until the day your notice arrives.
For as long as it is licensed, and then two dates, both true.
A session is kept for as long as it is licensed, whole, because the count is written against it and you may ask to check it. The day that changes is the day your notice arrives, and what happens then is written on the withdrawal page. It does not end with you: if you die while it is licensed, the licence, the pay and the right to end it pass to your estate, which means your family, for as long as the licence runs. That is ruled, and counsel is writing the clause. It is something you leave behind. The shape of it is below.
- While it is licensed
- Kept whole, under your name, with the count written against itThe record of what went into what is kept from the first day rather than assembled when somebody asks
- The day your notice arrives
- Nothing new starts under itA job already underway finishes, and after it nothing runs
- Out of service
- It stops being available and nothing new runs itOut of service is an act, and it happens when the job already running has finished
- Every copy gone
- Every copy we hold, on a date you are toldDeleting every copy takes longer than taking it out of service, because backups run to a horizon. Two dates, and the later one is the one that means every copy. Material that went into a model is its own case: it comes out at that model's next revision, on the date you were told before you agreed, and nobody here will tell you a model has forgotten you
- The withdrawal itself
- Stays on fileA record that deletes its own withdrawals cannot show it honoured one
- If it went into a model
- A different yes, with the limit stated before you agreeA record used to train a model is a different thing from a record used to run a machine, and it gets a different yes. No agreement to anything else ever covers it
The real date, not the convenient one. A refused session is kept too, with its reason, and it leaves the same way: on your notice, on a date you are told.
Your skill is yours. What is made of it is ours, for you, and it runs under your name.
Information about an identifiable person, owned by Even Steven and held for them.
Your skill is yours, and nothing here takes it, buys it or learns it out of you. What we build from your record is a tool. We make it, it runs under your name and on your licence, it pays you every hour it runs, it passes to your family, and you can end it. We make the tool. You own the skill.
A session identifies the person in the seat by design, because a way of working with no name on it could not be licensed, credited or paid for. So it is information about you, and the rights that attach to it are yours and not your employer's: to be told before it starts, to agree separately, to see what is held, and to withdraw at will.
Withdraw and no new job starts under it from the day your notice arrives. You are told the true deletion date, backups included, and a short date is never allowed to stand in for a long one.
For the owner, the operator and the people who can say no.
A session is made from the skill of the person in the seat, and Even Steven owns it for them. Your operator owns their skill, always. What we build from admitted sessions is a tool, made by us and run under their name, and what you license is a way of working, by name, for a job. The hours charged to you are written against the sessions in use, on the same record that shows who on your crew cleared the work, and you see the same count the person being paid sees. Your own operator teaching your own machine stays with you and goes nowhere else without a fresh agreement carrying their signature. Your own use of it is counted and charged like any owner's, the half goes to them, and they can end it.
The rights in a session are yours: to be told before it starts, to agree separately, to see what is held, and to withdraw at will. The skill it records stays yours whatever is built from it. Each one carries its own identifier and signature, so it counts itself, and you see the hours it worked and what you are owed, checked against the record that shows who cleared the work. Nothing in it grades you, and nothing in it is supplied against you.
A session is a recording. It runs nothing and clears nothing, and the photograph inside it is what a person can check.
We treat a session as information about an identifiable person. The recording of it belongs to Even Steven, for the person it came from, and the skill it came from stays theirs. What we build from admitted sessions is a tool, made by us and run under the operator's name and licence. Whether that is how it falls to be treated where you operate is for your counsel. The consents are separate, checked at the moment of recording, and the true deletion date is stated, backups included. The terms go on the covenant in plain words before anyone is asked to sign anything.
See what a session of yours would carry.
If you run a machine and want to know what a record of you working would hold, and whose it would be, before you agree to one, write to us.