Four pillars: Production/Consumption/Circular Flows → Environmental/Social/Economic/Governance
Attribution
Prior state
Earlier PLANETAI text framed the four pillars as Production /
Consumption / Circular Flows / (one more) — a Tomas-flavoured
variation that did not match the Full Stack Metrics Framework
[Vivanco 2024] underlying the methodology stack.
Change
Canonical four pillars are Environmental, Social, Economic, Governance —
exactly as published in the Full Stack Metrics Framework and as
applied by every measurement instance in the project (observatory
panels, paper, Vivanco methodology note).
Reasoning
The Full Stack Metrics Framework is the operational substrate for
PLANETAI's measurement layer. Carrying a parallel pillar vocabulary
in narrative text introduced silent drift between methodology and
story — easy to miss in review, expensive to fix later. Aligning to
the published framework before the v14 submission window prevented
reviewer confusion and locked vocabulary across paper + observatory
+ application form.
Artifacts changed
- PLANETAI_Observatory_v0/docs/PLANETAI_CoreIdeas_April2026.md
- planetai_publish/core-ideas-paper.md
- planetai_publish/observatory/index.html
Review
locked retroactively as canonical naming
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