Reformation

What this is

Two gaps, both of them navigable — if someone hands you the map

Neither of these frameworks asks for a new appropriation, a new agency, or a rule change before it can start working. Both of them start from the same finding: the programs largely exist, they are funded, and the people who need them cannot see them from where they are standing.

STANDFAST is built around the fact that suicide risk is at its highest in the first six to twelve months after separation, and that what ends at separation is not a paycheck but a structure — identity, unit, tempo, and an answer to what a person is for. It assigns a mission rather than a referral.

LINTEL is built around a rule almost nobody in either program understands: SSDI has a genuine cliff and SSI has none at all. It shows a person their own months, on their own figures, before they take the step — and it asks which door is theirs before it asks anything else, because VA compensation does not touch SSDI and reduces SSI almost dollar for dollar. A veteran sent through a general door gets a number that is wrong.

The applications

Two apps, each a single file

No login, no server, no install. A veteran on a phone in a parking lot should not need an account, and a benefits counselor's office should not need IT approval to open a web page.

Standfast Third in the series · Veterans

A mission after service

Answer what you actually missed when you got out — the team, the tempo, being trusted with something — and how physical the work can be, including not at all. The list reorders into roles that fit, several of which sit inside this portfolio and can be filled directly rather than referred out. Plus safe places, what the first year should look like, and the record behind every claim.

Lintel Fourth in the series · Disability

What happens to your benefits if you work

Four doors rather than one form — SSDI, SSI, and a separate veteran entrance for each, because the arithmetic behind them is genuinely different. Enter your check and what you would earn, and get back the month-by-month projection: the exact month the check stops, the exact size of the drop, the total across four years. Then what is protected anyway — 1619(b) Medicaid continuation, 93 months of Medicare, Expedited Reinstatement, and the way back in. The 1619(b) table shows 4 of 52 jurisdictions verified and leaves 48 open rather than filling them with plausible numbers.

The series

Four frameworks, one argument

Cornerstone and its five applications →

The documents

Read the frameworks

Each application is the operable half of a written framework — the case, the model, the funding stack, the national strategy, the model bill, and the metrics. Each one also states, in advance and on purpose, the condition that would prove it wrong.

• STANDFAST — A National Framework for Veteran Purpose, Healing, and Safe Places (Markdown)
• LINTEL — A National Framework for Moving People Off Disability Benefits Into Ownership (Markdown)

Watch

How to use them

Narrated walkthroughs recorded off the real applications, not mockups, with captions. If a video shows a screen the app no longer has, the video is wrong and we want to know.

The overview film mixes this suite's own artwork with licensed stock footage, labelled on screen wherever it appears. Nobody shown in that footage is a veteran in the framework or a beneficiary. Full credits and provenance.

How to read these apps

Every factual cell says what it is

Each one is verified (checked against a primary source), likely (a known pattern or a secondary source — confirm before relying on it), unverified (recorded but not checked), or open. Only verified items count toward a finding, and gaps are shown rather than filled in. That is why LINTEL's state table displays 4 of 52 in large type instead of 52 plausible numbers: a wrong threshold would tell someone their health coverage is safe when it is not.