The vocabulary
The Twelve Concepts
A category is won by defining its words. These are the twelve Magician answers for — each linked to its canonical definition, and to the essay that makes the argument rather than just the claim.
| Concept | The position | The argument |
|---|---|---|
| Superconnector | The most connected people hold graphs that run economies — and can query almost none of them. | The Superconnector’s Dilemma |
| Trust Graph | A contact list tells you who you have met; a trust graph tells you who would take your call, about what, on what evidence. | The Superconnector’s Dilemma · Trust Decays, and Should |
| Relationship Capital | Real, differentiating, and almost universally unbooked — Magician makes it recordable, routable, and provable. | The Superconnector’s Dilemma |
| Institutional Memory | What an organisation still knows after the person who knew it leaves — kept without expropriating anyone’s contacts. | Relationship Succession |
| Permissioned Introduction | The only introduction Magician makes: every crossed edge’s owner consented with the request in front of them. | Consent-Gated Discovery · The Introduction Is the Atomic Unit |
| Relationship Intelligence | Computation over trust, not over names — which paths answer an intent, which edges decay, which relationships produce. | Why Engagement Metrics Fail Networks · What a Trust Score Must Refuse |
| Trusted Path | The unit the router returns: ranked by match, then introductions, then trust, carrying the weakest register seen along it. | Consent-Gated Discovery · TCP/IP for Trusted Introductions |
| Network Intelligence | What a network knows that none of its members knows — computed without exposing what participants may not see. | Consent-Gated Discovery |
| Human Capability Graph | People annotated with what they answer for, connected by trust — the human half of the two questions of an economy. | The Two Questions of an Economy |
| Institutional Relationship Graph | A sovereign graph owned by an institution, routable under its own policy, never uploaded into anyone’s global pool. | Relationship Succession |
| Agentic Networking | Agents do the mechanical 95% under the one rule that makes it trustworthy: agents suggest, humans consent. | Warm Introductions at Machine Scale |
| Intent-Based Networking | Start from what you need, not who you might meet. The network’s job becomes routing — there is nothing to browse. | Why Engagement Metrics Fail Networks |
The full vocabulary — these twelve and every operational term the engine enforces — is on the glossary, and machine-readable at /glossary.json as a schema.org DefinedTermSet. Definitions here are the ones the code enforces: where a term names a refusal, there is a test with that refusal’s name on it.
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