Institutions of One · Ownership Index
How much of the system behind your work do you control?
This twenty-question pilot examines five areas: audience, rights, revenue, identity, and infrastructure. Your result offers a structured picture of where control is concentrated and where dependence may remain.
The five areas, and why these five
Audience asks whether you can reach the people who follow your work without a platform's permission. Rights asks who owns what you have made and on what terms. Revenue asks how many independent channels your income arrives through. Identity asks whether your public name is yours to move. Infrastructure asks whether the tools, data and records the work runs on would survive changing supplier. They are grouped this way because they fail independently: it is common to own your rights outright and still be unable to reach a single reader without one company's cooperation.
What the result is, and what it is not
The output is five area scores and a short reading of the pattern between them. It is not a rank against other people, and there is no threshold anyone is expected to clear. Scores are not normed, which means they have not been calibrated against a representative sample, so the useful comparison is between your own five areas, or between the same assessment taken at two points in time, rather than against anyone else's number.
Answering it usefully
Answer for how things stand now rather than how they are meant to stand once a plan lands. Where a question could be read two ways, the version that assumes less in your favor will give you the more useful result. No account is required, and nothing is kept if you close the page before you finish. Unless you are signed in, your answers are stored without your name, email, or account. If you are signed in when you submit, a copy is also saved to your account. See the privacy page.