← Granted Attention

Everything on this domain

Seven instruments, two standards, and the record of what I got wrong

All of it free, and nothing here asks for an account. Every instrument but one computes in your browser and never sends anything you type; the exception is the Access Survey, which counts four answers from fixed menus and says exactly that above its first question.

Start with whichever names your situation · most take two to five minutes, and the two deepest say so on the line

If you sell something

Both of these read the demand you already have, rather than telling you to make more.

The Overdraw Self-Scorer Every email, page and pitch is either a deposit or an ask. This finds the point where your sequence asks before it has earned, and gives you the one correction to make first. Ten minutes · a score and one fix The Granted Share Calculator Tally your last twenty customers by how each one found you. It splits the result into demand that arrived because someone chose you, and demand you had to win. Two minutes · a share, a Rent Index and a card

If you make things

For anyone whose work has to reach people before it can earn anything.

The Route Audit Sort every route that brings attention to your work into contested, rented or direct, then see where your effort goes against which routes you could actually move. Run it twice and it shows you the drift. Five minutes · three positions and a comparison Your field, already sorted The same two questions applied to the routes that actually exist in acting, screenwriting, music, publishing, visual art and job hunting — so you can see where yours land before running anything. Six pages · nothing to fill in The audit on paper The same two questions as a printable page, with a blank worksheet and worked examples. Works in a rehearsal room or a meeting with an agent, and needs no browser. One page · print or save as PDF The Access Survey Three questions about the one route that brings you the most work. You get your own position back, and — uniquely on this site — your answers are counted, so the findings can eventually be published with a number in them instead of a hedge. It says exactly what it records, above the first question. Under a minute · the only page here that records an answer

If you build or buy AI products

The rubric is published in full, and so is everything it rests on.

The Conferral Design Scorecard Score a recommender, an agent or an agent platform on ten criteria, 0–4 each, with every score tagged observed, stated or inferred — so you find out how much of your score you actually know. About ten minutes · a score, an evidence split and a card The Conferral Vendor Scorecard Ten questions for the buyer rather than the builder: what it optimises for, what it can do without asking, and how much of what you were told is actually in the contract. Before you sign, not after The 45-minute conferral review A meeting agenda for running the scorecard with your team. Everyone scores silently, then you compare only the disagreements — because the spread is the finding. Free agenda · three to six people

A game, if you would rather be shown than told

Real or Rented? Five artifacts a day — a review, a testimonial, a caption, an endorsement, a chart. One question each: did this trust get earned, or bought? Harder than it sounds. Two minutes a day · stores nothing, counts nobody

The methodology, published open

Read these after an instrument, not before. They are what makes the instrument trustworthy once you have already used it.

Conferral by Design The complete methodology: the argument, seven principles, a three-layer pattern library for recommenders and agents, and the whole ten-criterion rubric. The reasoning behind the scorecard The Conferral Metrics Standard Seven defined metrics for attention that was given rather than taken, each with a proxy a real business can compute this week, and each with its limits stated. Free to adopt with attribution

What the paid work produces

Four complete worked reports, published in full. They are fictional composites — worked demonstrations, never clients.

A creator with 214,000 followers And about 4,100 she can reach directly. The full ledger report on the gap between the two. Sample A solo coaching practice Half the clients arriving conferred, on almost none of the effort. The report on what that means and what to do next. Sample A home-services contractor A full ledger read on a business whose demand looks healthy and is bought. Sample What follows the audit The build, specified to buildable detail: the grant path, the direct channel run as a kept promise, and the recurring line. Sample

The record

Corrections Every published claim here that turned out to be wrong, dated, with what defeated it and what replaced it. Nothing is removed from that page. Kept, not deleted Can two people apply this rubric and land in the same place? The honest answer, and what would have to happen for it to be a better one. Stated limits
Nothing here is paywalled and nothing is a trial. The definitions, the rubrics and the instruments are free permanently. What is sold is judgement applied to a specific case — the paid work is here — and it is priced in public.

The personal side of this framework — the free tests, the theory papers and the book — is at takenorgiven.com.