Strategic
How direction, options, and longer-range planning are present or absent in a situation.
Representative terms
strategy, strategic, roadmap, program, mission
Lotus
Agency scorer and reflective workbench.
Score a note in the browser, see which pressures rise to the surface, and move straight into the full LOTUS vector model below.
One route, two depths: a quick reading of the note, then the longer vector model when you need to stay with the shape of the situation.
Workbench
Map the pressure in your own words.
Paste a journal entry, a situation note, or a working fragment. LOTUS reads for signal groups that gather around constraint, support, meaning, and room to act. The reading stays in your browser.
Scorer
Paste a note. See where the pressure gathers.
Markdown or plain text
LOTUS strips markdown noise before scoring. The reading stays in your browser; this public surface does not upload or save the note.
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Vector model
Trace what narrows agency, and what keeps it open.
For researchers, clinicians, and practitioners who need a structured reading of a situation. Rate base state, constraints, and supports, and LOTUS computes the effective agency vector through the full formula chain.
Signal library
Six patterns LOTUS listens for.
These are not personality types. They are recurring forms of pressure, condition, and capacity: how choices narrow, how institutions bear down, how execution frays, and how meaning or creative life either holds or thins out.
Governance
How accountability, oversight, and institutional structures shape what a person can access or expect.
Representative terms
governance, policy, procurement, oversight, compliance
Operational
How practical capacity, coordination, and daily execution hold up or break down under load.
Representative terms
operations, workflow, execution, delivery, implementation
Agency
How much real choice, influence, and capacity to act remain when pressure is high.
Representative terms
agency, autonomy, influence, choice, self determination
Creative
How imagination, story, and aesthetic expression are present — or suppressed — in a situation.
Representative terms
creative, imagination, aesthetic, story, narrative
Meaning
How identity, culture, memory, and ethical orientation hold or fragment under pressure.
Representative terms
meaning, interpretation, symbolic, ethics, memory
What LOTUS does not claim
LOTUS can clarify a situation. It cannot finish the interpretation.
A clear read can widen room to act. But any reading remains partial, revisable, and answerable to context. LOTUS is built to support reflection without collapsing the person into the frame.
LOTUS does not diagnose.
LOTUS is not a medical or diagnostic device. It can surface patterns and language around pressure, but it does not produce clinical conclusions or replace professional assessment.
A score is not a self.
Any score is a reading of conditions, constraints, and supports at a moment in time. It is not character, worth, destiny, or fixed identity. Interpretation must remain revisable.
Boundaries protect dignity.
LOTUS should not be used to sort, exploit, or manipulate vulnerable people. It is designed to support understanding, dignity, and better pathways to care or action, not high-stakes decisions without human judgment.