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The Public Curriculum

This is the Continuity Office Public Curriculum: a free, open set of lessons for building organizational continuity—the capability to preserve intent, consent, and legibility through change. Built for humans operating complex systems and AI.

Core stance: continuity isn’t a document. It’s a capability. When continuity is designed, change becomes survivable.
What this is not: not certification-first, not vendor-driven, not compliance theater, not a funnel. Use it internally, remix it, teach it—just attribute it (CC BY).
Browse tracks Suggested learning paths License (CC BY)

Tracks

Links below point to canonical lesson routes under /training/001-the-continuity-canon/ (e.g., /training/001). Adjust to your routing (HTML, MD, or both).

Track A
Foundations Core concepts: invariants, time-based failure, memory, and the Continuity Officer.
  1. 001 — The Continuity Canon
  2. 002 — Continuity Is a Capability (Not Documentation)
  3. 003 — The 5 Failure Modes of Organizational Time
  4. 004 — Memory as Infrastructure
  5. 005 — The Continuity Officer Explained
Track B
Core Practices Primitives you can install immediately: provenance, survivable workflows, drift, diffusion, incident memory.
  1. 006 — Decision Provenance
  2. 007 — Survivable Workflows
  3. 008 — Drift Detection
  4. 009 — Key-Person Risk Reduction Without Politics
  5. 010 — Incident Memory
Track C
AI & Automation Continuity Consent continuity, explainable failure, and reuse boundaries for automated systems.
  1. 011 — AI Mandates & Boundaries
  2. 012 — Explainable Failure for AI Systems
  3. 013 — Data Provenance & Reuse Boundaries
Track D
Operating Model & Leadership How continuity becomes repeatable: 90-day plan, metrics, transitions, vendor choices, leadership governance.
  1. 015 — The First 90 Days of Continuity (Coming soon)
  2. 016 — Continuity Metrics That Don’t Lie
  3. 017 — Continuity in Onboarding & Offboarding
  4. 018 — Vendor & Tooling Decisions Through the Continuity Lens
  5. 019 — Continuity for Leaders
Track E
Advanced / Change & Architecture Time-aware system design, durability boundaries, audit translation, and surviving major change events.
  1. 020 — Continuity Architecture
  2. 021 — Continuity Boundaries
  3. 022 — Continuity as an Audit Translator
  4. 023 — Continuity Through Change Events

Suggested learning paths

These are gentle suggestions, not prerequisites. If continuity matters to you, start anywhere.

Executive path

For leaders who want governance without micromanagement.

001 → 003 → 005 → 015 → 019

Operator path

For teams who want fewer fire drills and less “tribal knowledge.”

001 → 006 → 007 → 008 → 010

AI / automation path

For teams introducing AI with clear mandates and defensible boundaries.

001 → 006 → 011 → 012 → 013

Continuity steward path

For Continuity Officers and cross-functional stewards.

001–010 → 015–019 → 020–023

Publishing principles

These keep the curriculum trustworthy in public.

License

This curriculum is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). You may share and adapt it for any purpose, including commercially, as long as you provide attribution.

Suggested attribution: “The Continuity Office Public Curriculum (CC BY)”.

If you’d like, add a link back to /training when you reuse it.