Field Note 24 / AgencyXQ / ContinuityContinuity Gap ChecklistTest whether the decision can survive handoff to a vendor, agency, new leader, investor operating team, or implementation group. Blank companionFieldbook / Operating Instrument 23Same structure / different evidence Decision is one sentenceWrite the decision in one sentence.Metric / baseline / timelineMake the operating objective visible.Inherited modelName the representation the decision interrogated.Material exclusionName at least one human, cultural, structural, or temporal exclusion.Human tension and primary frictionPreserve the reconstructed human and the tension the old model erased.Accumulated meaning and permissionRecord Ethos, Expression, Perception, unused equity, and overdraw risk.Ledger contradictionPreserve at least one contradiction in the evidence chain.Directions comparedRecord the directions considered.Written rejectionKeep one rejected direction visible through handoff.Tension CardState who the choice serves and disappoints.Human ownerUse a person, not a department.Falsifiable Bet and precommitted responseState what would prove the bet wrong and what will happen next.Ethical boundaryState what the organization refuses to imply, obscure, automate, or exploit.Impact horizonMatch the claim to Resonate, Redefine, or Reverberate.Decision locusMap human, agent, and mixed governance where relevant.Stranger testCan someone outside the room restate the bet, downside, rejected direction, owner, and next action?Continuity statusIf any box fails, the Continuity Gap is open.