What was recorded, what was built, and what you are owed.
The repository holds a named way of working under licence and licenses it by name for a job. If the name is yours, this is your door to it: every session recorded under your name, what was admitted and what was refused, what was built from it, where it is listed, the hours it has worked and what those hours are worth to you. The door is yours, and it is not your employer's.
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The repository has a door for the person whose way of working it is.
The repository is the register where a named way of working is held under licence, and the store front where an owner finds one by the family of machine and licenses it by name for a job. An owner comes in through their own door and sees what they have licensed, the hours it has run on their machines, and what they are charged for it. The person whose way of working it is comes in through this one, and sees the other side of the same record: what was recorded on their days in the seat, what it became, where it is listed, and what it has earned.
Nothing about the door is public and nothing about it is automatic. It opens to one person, by name, on a link sent to that person and to nobody else. What is behind it is set out below, in the order you would meet it.
The door is designed and written down, and it holds no record yet. The first records behind it come from our own crews on our own machines, and until they have been made nobody outside our own crews is asked to open it.
Everything held under your name, session by session.
A session is one recording with its own identifier and its own signature, so it counts itself. Your record is the run of them, from the first press of start, and everything that happened to each one afterwards.
- What was recorded
- Every session made under your name, one by oneThe day, the machine, who was in the seat, and the agreement that covered you at the moment the recording was made
- What was admitted, and what was refused
- Each session's answer from the written procedure, with the reason namedEvery reason is about equipment or paperwork, and a refused session is kept with its reason rather than thrown away
- What was built from it
- Which of your sessions went into a built thing, and which built thingA named way of working, for the family of machine it was taught on. Nothing of yours goes into one with another person's work unless you said yes to that, separately
- Where it is listed
- The listing in the repository that carries your nameFound by an owner by the family of machine and licensed by name, and whether it is in service, ended, or withdrawn
- The hours it has worked
- Written from the choice that cleared each job, session by sessionWith the name of the person who chose, so every hour has a name beside it
- What you are owed
- For those hours, as they are writtenAt the rate the covenant carries, and nowhere else. Paid weekly, by electronic transfer, with a statement to your address every time
- If you have withdrawn
- The day your withdrawal took effectAnd the true date every copy is gone, backups included
The count you see is the record that cleared the work.
There is no second ledger kept somewhere else to reconcile it against, because the record is the ledger. The name of the person who cleared each job and the hours counted under it are written in the same place at the same moment, and it is the same record that opens when you open yours.
So you are never asked to take a total on trust. Every hour on it can be followed back to a session with a signature, a job with a name on the choice, and a listing with your name on it.
No password. You ask for a link, and it is sent to your address.
There is nothing to remember and nothing to write on the back of a card. The door opens on a link, the link goes to you, and it is good once.
You ask
By your name. The request comes to us, and a person answers it.
A link is sent to your address
To your address and to no other. It is good once.
You open it
And you are looking at your own record, as it is written, with nothing arranged for the occasion.
The next time, you ask again
A link that was good once is not good twice. Nothing stays open behind you, and nothing is left lying around for somebody else to pick up.
Nobody at Even Steven can sign in as you
The link goes to your address. There is no master key on our side, and no way for a person here to open your record as if they were you.
The door is yours, not your employer's
Whoever arranged the day, the record it made is information about you, so the door to it is in your name. Your employer does not hold a key to it and cannot ask us for one.
No password to keep, and none to lose
A password is a thing that can be guessed, written down, shared or demanded. A link sent to your address, good once, is none of those.
Your name is on the door, and on everything behind it.
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.
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Your employer does not see your record.
The rights that attach to a session 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. Seeing what is held is one of them, and nobody holds it on your behalf.
Your employer sees nothing of it.
Whether or not they arranged the recording. What you taught your employer's machine stays with that employer, and goes nowhere else without a fresh agreement carrying your signature. The record of you teaching it is still yours to open, and it is not theirs to read.
An owner sees the hours on their own machines.
They are on the same record you see, because those hours are what the owner is charged for. They see nothing else of yours: not your sessions, not what was refused, not what you are owed, and not what it earned anywhere else.
We hold it, and we owe you the money.
So you get to check it. What we count, you can check, and what we hold, you can see. The session sits here under licence, and the count sits beside it.
Check it, ask for the accounting, say no to a use, or end it.
A record you can only look at is a statement. This one is where your rights under the covenant are used, and each of them is an act with your name on it.
- 01Check the countYou see the hours it worked and what you are owed, and you can check both against the record that shows who cleared the work. Every hour has a session under it and a name beside it. If an hour has neither, it should not be there, and you can say so.
- 02Ask for an accountingThe party counting the uses is the party that owes the money, so you get an accounting and a right to audit it. Ask for it and it is owed to you, session by session.
- 03Say no to a useConsent comes apart. To be recorded at all, to be combined with others, to run under your name, and to be used to train a model are separate agreements, each given on its own and withdrawn on its own, so you can say yes to one and no to another and the no is honoured without emptying anything else. A 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.
- 04WithdrawGive notice and nothing new starts under it. A job already underway finishes, and its hours are paid like any other. Nothing is charged for leaving and nothing already paid is clawed back. Then we tell you the true date every copy is gone, and your record shows the day it took effect.
Every hour has a session under it and a name beside it.
You read the hours where they were written, and you can check them against the record that shows who cleared the work.
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A record you open yourself is the opposite of a file kept on you.
Nothing in it grades how you worked, and nothing anywhere else does either. The checks a session goes through are about equipment and paperwork, and the chain that signs it has no opinion about the person in the seat. It only knows whether the record is whole.
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 hours on your record are hours your way of working was in use on a job somebody else cleared. They are not your hours at work, and nobody reads them as a timesheet.
- No score on the record. A session is admitted or refused on equipment and paperwork alone.
- No ranking. Nothing in the repository sorts your name against anybody else's.
- No comparison for sale. We do not sell one operator's record against another's.
- No copy to your employer.
- No use it was not licensed for, whoever asks.
Four readers, and only one of them opens this door.
This door is not yours, and you do not need it. You see the hours a licensed way of working ran on your own machines through your own door in the repository, on the same record the operator sees, and it is what you are charged for. Your own operator's record stays theirs to open, whoever arranged the recording.
Ask for a link and it is sent to your address, good once. Behind it is every session under your name, what was admitted and what was refused and why, what was built, where it is listed, the hours it worked and what you are owed. Nobody at Even Steven can sign in as you, and your employer does not see it.
Nothing behind this door reaches a machine. It is a record read after the fact, by the person it is about. A way of working proposes and never authorizes, and the person on the crew who chose it, by name, is on the same record the operator reads the hours from.
The operator's right to open it rests on privacy law and on the agreement rather than on a claim over technique. Where a body speaks for the crew as well, its signature is asked for beside the operator's own. What is behind the door is a record and an accounting, and neither of them reaches a machine.
Ask what your record would hold.
If people ask for you by name, write to us and we will tell you what would be behind this door, and whose.