The privacy floor
Personnel records live behind a one-way seal. The only thing that crosses it is a count, and below five mapped people not even the count crosses, because in a small team the count is the name.
For one to four mapped people on a measured critical pathCritical pathThe dependency chain with the greatest total coordination weight in the map. It identifies a structural constraint. It does not state elapsed time., the key-person findingFindingA difference in the records that needs a decision. It includes its sources and can describe a slow handoff, disputed fact or missing owner. says fewer than five, and stops there. CellsCellA box on the map that stands for a team, service, supplier or AI agent. It is a unit you can inspect, not necessarily a department or a person. with zero mapped people are skipped; the check does not establish missing ownership. No answer, screen or export names the person, at any level of privilege, the board included. What to do about it belongs to the accountable ownerAccountable ownerThe person recorded as answerable for a team, service or agent. NovusLens does not assume that this person is also the one who runs it day to day..
A very small scope therefore reads less precisely. That is the floor working, not an absence of risk.