The framework: nine skills and three milestones

English edition · Japanese

SOVREN Framework is a free handbook for small business owners who already have customers and revenue, to put AI to work in running the business. You build nine skills in order, connecting your business data, sales, finances, team, and capital into one flow.

Why sovereignty, and why own your Ontology, is in the Manifesto. This page is the map of in what order, and building what, you put it into practice.

On this page

• The loop that runs through everything
• Three sovereignties
• The nine skills
• Three milestones
• Why this order

The loop that runs through everything

Record reality
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Organize it so AI can read it
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Decide hypotheses and next actions
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A person checks, then acts
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Bring back customer reactions, numbers, and reasons for failure
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Update the Ontology and the plan

The nine skills aren’t separate tricks. Each one uses the data the previous one built.

Three sovereignties

Sovereignty isn’t a slogan; it’s something you manage. The nine skills are arranged to answer three questions.

Sovereignty	The question	What you keep	Skills
Self	Who defines you?	your decision criteria, know-how, and roles — updated by you	S1 · S6 · S7
Voice	Who decides whom you reach?	your market, content, sales path, and revenue hypotheses — tested by you	S2 · S3 · S4
Capital	Who designs your wealth?	your cash flow, assets, investments, and allocation rules — checked by you	S5 · S8 · S9

The nine skills

#	Skill	What you build	Real-world check
1	S1: Build your own information system	workspace, Ontology, action log	one real decision recorded, its reasoning traceable later
2	S2: Make information usable	maps of you, your company, and the market; a three-year plan	existing customers, payments, and lost deals connect to the market hypothesis
3	S3: Take control of your voice	publishing policy, content, landing pages, measurement	one path from social post to inquiry works end to end
4	S4: Multiply your revenue streams	several revenue models, briefs, sales tests	several revenue doors designed; at least one offered to a real customer
5	S5: Build your money data	a monthly close for business and personal	last month closed; one money decision made from the numbers
6	S6: Manage your team with AI	where people data lives, roles, instructions, acceptance, a dashboard	work handed to someone other than you was actually completed
7	S7: Build an AI-centered team (Japanese)	a shared Ontology and team operations	several people decide and update from the same information
8	S8: Integrate information and optimize your capital plan (Japanese)	an allocation plan for business and asset income	transfers and investments made by the allocation rules
9	S9: Manage many things at once with AI (Japanese)	a cross-portfolio view, regular reviews, recommended actions	neglected items detected and the outcome recorded

Three milestones

Milestone 1: a business model you can test — with S1–S4, build market, voice, and revenue models from your own reality, put them in front of customers, and bring the results back.

Milestone 2: a business that doesn’t depend only on you — with S5–S7, allocate work across you, AI, contractors, and partners while watching the numbers.

Milestone 3: a foundation you keep renewing — through S8–S9, review many businesses, projects, and assets regularly and decide the next allocation of resources.

(Milestone pass criteria are published in Japanese.)

Why this order

• S1 first: without your own data for AI to read, every skill turns into generic advice.
• S3 after S2: publish before deciding customer and market, and the numbers go up without becoming business.
• S4 after S3: without a sales path, you can’t test new revenue hypotheses.
• S6 and S7 after S5: add people or contractors without watching the numbers, and fixed costs grow before revenue does.
• S9 after S8: cross-portfolio management without allocation rules just makes longer lists.

The order doesn’t mean finishing each skill perfectly before the next. Build the smallest version, check it once against reality, move on — and come back when you need to.

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