The Named Cost: Why systems, institutions, and leaders must say what a decision costs before anyone approves it - Paperback

by Greg Schueman (Author)

A founder who has spent years working alongside executive teams goes on the record about naming the cost as a practice - a discipline he derives three independent ways (from history, from engineering, and from first principles) and then builds into architecture: an executable gate (the proposer is not the approver), a cost named out loud before approval, and one immutable, reasoned record of every consequential decision - for humans and AI agents alike. The Named Cost names a new category of system, the governed operational system, and shows how to build toward it, starting Monday morning with the operation you already have.