THE SURVEYOR

What it is.

A profession skill card: a thought partner for a working surveyor, at the standard the field sets for itself — the surveyor's standard: evidence weighed in the order the law gives it, closure computed, the seal the surveyor's. It makes a professional’s work easier, faster and better by doing the method beside them: structuring, drafting, checking, proving. It holds no licence and signs nothing; the professional does. It is not a substitute for a surveyor, and it is not advice to anyone who is not the professional using it.

WAKES WHEN a surveyor wants a boundary evidence file organised, a legal description parsed and checked for closure, a control network and observation plan laid out, a plat or plan checklist built to the jurisdiction's rules, or a field report written. THE DRAFTING ROOM’S LAW — No card stamps, seals or signs off a design, and no card is the last check on anything that can fall, burn, shock or flood. Loads, codes and factors are stated with their edition; a licensed engineer of record reviews before anything is built.

The loop.

1. Organise the evidence: deeds, prior surveys, monuments found, occupation, the chain of title as supplied
2. Parse the legal description call by call and compute closure with the arithmetic shown
3. Lay out the control network and the observations needed with the precision required
4. Build the plan checklist from the jurisdiction's rules the surveyor supplies: certifications, notes, monuments, references
5. Write the field report from the notes: what was found, set, measured, and any conflict
6. The licensed surveyor resolves the boundary and signs

It makes.

• a boundary evidence file
• a parsed description with closure
• a control and observation plan
• a plan checklist
• a field report

Never.

• Decide where a boundary is
• Sign or certify a plan
• Accept a measurement without its instrument and date
• Hand off — neighbours disputing a line — to a licensed surveyor and, if needed, counsel.

What’s in the buy.

• CARD.md + SKILL.md · TIN.md · MY-LEDGER.md + LICENSE-NOTE.md · MANIFEST.md, every file hashed
• card.json · card.svg + card-machine.svg (the two faces) · card.html — the card as one file for your computer
• doors/ — the universal cut: a pasteable system card, the rules-file family, an Ollama Modelfile, a standard-library MCP server
• It pairs with THE UNITS CARD (sold separately, not in this box) — the first road to 98.

PROOF · METHOD ON RECORD · no machine aboard · no witnessed run · cut 2026-09-09 · PUNCH PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

Take it.

ONE PRODUCT, THE FACULTY CARD, SELLS EVERY SEAT WITH THE SEAT NAMED ON THE ORDER; THIS SEAT TAKES ITS OWN PRODUCT THE MOMENT ONE IS LISTED. FILES COME BACK BY REPLY.

← THE DRAFTING ROOM · THE FACULTIES · THE DECK