Escalation ladder / freeze authority table

Defines who can freeze what, under which conditions, and on what timeline.

Stoppability becomes an authority a named role holds and can use.

What this enforces

  • Freeze authority is explicit and role-bound.
  • Stop conditions are pre-declared.
  • Escalation occurs by clock, not permission.

How to use

  1. Assign freeze roles and backup roles.
  2. Define kill-switch criteria for each failure state.
  3. Run a tabletop where the first move is a freeze.

The template

# Escalation ladder / freeze authority table

Defines who can freeze what, under which conditions, and on what timeline.
Stoppability becomes an authority a named role holds and can use.

## What this enforces — record how each one is met

- [ ] Freeze authority is explicit and role-bound.
      Evidence:
- [ ] Stop conditions are pre-declared.
      Evidence:
- [ ] Escalation occurs by clock, not permission.
      Evidence:

## How to use

1. Assign freeze roles and backup roles.
2. Define kill-switch criteria for each failure state.
3. Run a tabletop where the first move is a freeze.

If a field is hard to fill, that is the governance gap this artifact exposes.

If a field is hard to fill, that is the governance gap this artifact exposes.