How to read applications
Same material. Two analytical resolutions.
SITI — Sectional Institutional Tension Index (Intensity View)
Use when asking how strong a pattern is.
• Compute only on the core cluster
• Produces a stable, auditable intensity signal
SIDI — Sectional Institutional Distortion Interpretation (Structure View)
Use when asking where and why divergence appears.
• Read tails, boundaries, and peripheral points
• Interprets interface crossings and procedural friction
Computation is performed only on structurally stable core clusters; peripheral structures support interpretation rather than measurement.
This guide clarifies how to read evidence. It does not rank institutions, infer causality, or replace professional judgment.
Fiscal Geometry is used to observe how rule-based systems behave once fiscal rules are put into operation.
It focuses on how formal rules translate into observable patterns across institutions, rather than on individual actors or outcomes.
In practice, this perspective is applied across systems where fiscal rules, administrative interfaces, and structural constraints interact over time—such as education finance, taxation, public budgeting, administrative systems, and intergenerational wealth.
Helps teams align rule design with implementation realities by rendering complex fiscal environments into shared, readable structural maps that surface recurring patterns, enable cross-system comparison, and support clearer policy–operations–compliance dialogue.
Notice on Use and Interpretation
Fiscal Geometry is an original analytical framework developed by Jim Y. Huang.
Academic discussion, citation, and non-operational reference are unrestricted.
Any operational deployment of the framework — including internal analysis, compliance design, AI system structuring, governance workflows, or institutional decision systems — constitutes licensed use.
The framework is strictly non-normative. It renders structural conditions visible but does not provide recommendations, decisions, or professional advice.
Fiscal Geometry (FG) functions as a pre-analytical protocol for rendering rule-dense institutional systems into stable, observable structures prior to judgment, reform, or optimization. It does not evaluate, recommend, or prescribe policy outcomes. Its function is limited to structural rendering.
For institutional users, FG operates as an admissibility gate: it tests whether a target configuration remains structurally viable for further analysis or deployment. Where admissibility criteria are not met, FG supports an explicit stop condition (abort-analysis), preventing downstream work from being constructed on non-viable or narrative-only assumptions.
Operational use of FG—including internal analysis, compliance design, AI system structuring, governance workflows, or institutional decision systems—falls within licensed deployment.
Licensed deployment includes access to the FG operational interface, including the 4-3-3-2 executable grammar used to standardize signal ingestion, structural rendering, and trigger-threshold definition for system status changes.