The Human Architecture Framework

This framework examines how authority, responsibility, and psychological load are distributed across an institution.

It surfaces misalignments between formal roles and actual power, identifies where decision burden concentrates, and reveals where leaders are structurally set up to fail. The Human Architecture Framework is often the first lens applied in a Rowanstone diagnostic, as it clarifies how people experience the system they operate within.

The Moral Intelligence Framework

Institutions do not lose integrity all at once. They lose it through repeated decisions made under constraint.

The Moral Intelligence Framework examines how an organization responds when values and expediency collide. It maps patterns of justification, silence, and diffusion of responsibility, and identifies whether ethical orientation is structurally supported or quietly undermined.

This framework is especially relevant in regulated environments, high growth contexts, and organizations facing reputational or compliance risk.

Decision Cleanliness and Incentive Alignment

This framework focuses on how decisions are made, reviewed, and owned.

It analyzes incentive structures, escalation pathways, veto authority, and feedback loops to determine whether decisions are coherent or compromised by conflicting pressures. Clean decision architecture reduces ambiguity, improves accountability, and prevents risk from accumulating invisibly.

This framework is often used in conjunction with governance redesign work.

Governance Integrity Framework

Governance integrity is not about policies. It is about enforceable structure.

This framework examines board oversight, reporting lines, independence mechanisms, and the separation between operational authority and risk containment. It identifies where governance exists in form but not in function, and where oversight has become symbolic rather than real.

This work is particularly relevant for boards, senior leadership teams, and institutions operating under public scrutiny.

Signals of Drift and Institutional Risk

Rowanstone maintains a set of early warning indicators that cut across all frameworks.

These signals include patterns of decision delay, normalization of exceptions, moral injury in leadership roles, and the quiet erosion of trust. Identifying these signals early allows institutions to intervene before external consequences emerge.

How These Frameworks Are Used

Rowanstone frameworks are not applied in isolation. They are integrated into digital diagnostics, scoring dashboards, and advisory engagements that translate structural insight into actionable clarity.

We do not publish full methodologies or scoring logic publicly. The value of this work lies not in the labels, but in disciplined application and interpretation.