Run the Audit
Evaluate any technology in 8 questions. Get your autonomy and transparency levels instantly.
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Step 1 — What are you evaluating?
Not in the catalog? Enter the project URL:
Step 2 — Structural questions
These three determine your Autonomy Level (A0–A3).
1. Pausestructural
Can you stop this service right now — and nothing breaks permanently?
2. Exitstructural
Can you leave this service and take everything with you?
3. Recoverabilitystructural
If something goes wrong, can you go back?
Step 3 — Diagnostic questions
These reveal what the rating doesn't show — what pulls at you.
4. Personalisationdiagnostic
Does this service collect data about you to shape your experience?
5. Urgencydiagnostic
Does this service pressure you to act before you are ready?
6. Hidden costdiagnostic
What do you pay besides money? (attention, data, lock-in)
7. Transparency fragilitydiagnostic
Would you still use it if you saw everything about how it works?
8. Trajectorydiagnostic
Is this project moving toward openness — or away from it?
Step 4 — Transparency
A separate axis. Not about control — about visibility.
Transparency level
Is the source code publicly available?
Your assessment
Answer the structural questions to see your score.