The Vealth Standard

A standard for the place already standing.

This page is for anyone who wants to know how well a place is kept and how that is measured. Many places are well kept and hold no certificate. This standard is for them: a Standing, earned only by settled, proven work, that lapses when the work stops. It is not a certification, and it awards no stars, plaques or permits.

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The reading

One place, read from its receipts.

5665 Wilshire

Recomputed from settled receipts on every read. Never a stored badge.

Checking evidence…

From settled jobs with accepted proof.

A step is a step up in how well a place is kept. There are five, from Unread to Whole, and a place holds one at a time.

  1. Unread step 0

  2. Read step 1

  3. Tended step 2

  4. Kept step 3

  5. Whole step 4

What each step means

Unread. Nobody has measured it. This is where nearly every place on earth is, and it is not a failure.

The Read level. Honestly measured, gaps named on the record. One settled measurement with accepted proof on every condition that applies here.

Tended. First repairs landed with before and after evidence on at least five conditions, and one was checked again a season later.

Kept. A maintenance cadence is running. Everything looked at twice in twelve months, nothing sliding backward.

Whole. Twelve straight months across every condition that applies here, nothing trending down, and the place has taught somebody: a person who worked here moved up a step doing it.

Lapse is real. A standing above the Read level drops to the highest level still satisfied when a re-measure is missed or any condition’s latest number is worse than the one before it. Lapsing is normal and public, not a penalty: it is the standard doing its job.

What would move it

What this place has proven, and what is still unread.

From the same recompute, per condition. Proven means a settled job with accepted proof. Unread names the next work anyone could do here.

Post what this place needs

The doctrine under the reading

The five laws

The authority behind the reading above. It explains; it never decides.

Standing is held, not awarded
A live status on maintenance, re-measured on a cadence, which is where the degradation actually happens.
The receipt is the certificate
A bounded job: evidence before and after, a named steward, settled pay, on a record nobody can quietly edit. No receipt, no claim.
Every condition has a rung at the ground
A rung is a step. The first step is enterable today by a person with no license, no capital, no specialized equipment. Checked by machine, not promised in prose.
Start where it is
A place enters filthy, drafty, cracked, and unmeasured, and that entry is honorable.
Nobody is hurt earning it
A standing built on injured hands is void. Safety work gates every job and scores no place.

The doctrine under the reading

The ten conditions

Each names what gets measured, and a first step anyone can take today with no license; together they crosswalk to the Living Building Challenge, the Michelin Guide and the SDGs.

01 · Shelter holds
Weather stays out and conditioned air stays in. Start today: walk the place with a lit incense stick, photograph and count every draft, seal one.
02 · The air is clean
You breathe better inside than out. Start today: read a low cost carbon dioxide meter in the room you use most, for one day.
03 · The water is honest
It arrives clean, is used carefully, and leaves cleaner than it came. Start today: bucket and stopwatch every tap, write down the gallons per minute.
04 · The power is earned
The place uses less than it did, and makes what it can. Start today: photograph the meter on the same day every month.
05 · Nothing leaves as waste
What comes out of here has a next use. Start today: weigh one week of what leaves, sort it, name the next use for each pile.
06 · The ground is alive
Soil, water, canopy and the small lives on this ground and its street are trending up. Start today: count the trees and the empty tree wells on your block, with photographs.
07 · A person is fed well here
The place can nourish someone to craft standard, from as close as it can get. Start today: cook one meal and write down where every ingredient came from.
08 · Everyone can get here
A person using a wheelchair, a cane, a stroller, or nothing at all can reach this place and use it. Start today: take a tape and a phone level down your own block, log every trip hazard and missing ramp.
09 · The commons is kept
The shared ground is sound and clean, nothing broken is left broken, and what was done is legible to the next person. Start today: walk your block, photograph every broken, tagged or dumped thing, fix the smallest one.
10 · The creatures are well
The animals who share this place are sound, fed, and free from avoidable pain. Start today: body-condition score every animal in your care on the published scale for its species, and write the date down.

The tenth condition is conditionally applicable: whether animals are kept here is a fact about a place, never a permission. A place that keeps none is not scored on it and is not penalized for it.

How each condition maps to the standards
01
LBC Energy Petal · SDG 7.3, 11.1, 13.1
02
LBC Health and Materials Petals · SDG 3.9, 11.6
03
LBC Water Petal · SDG 6.1, 6.3, 6.4
04
LBC Energy Petal · SDG 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 13.2
05
Michelin Green Star zero waste practice · LBC Materials Petal · SDG 12.3, 12.5
06
LBC Place Petal · SDG 15.1, 15.3, 15.5, 14.1, 6.6, 11.7
07
The Michelin craft criteria · LBC Urban Agriculture · SDG 2.4, 12.3
08
LBC Universal Access, re-pointed at the street that exists · SDG 11.2, 11.7, 10.2
09
LBC Beauty and Education · Michelin consistency · SDG 11.3, 11.6, 4.7
10
LBC Habitat Exchange · SDG 2.4, 3.3, 15.5 · scored only where animals are kept

The boundary

What this is not

Not a certification: there is no committee, no application, no fee, and no plaque. Not a design target: nothing here can be earned on paper before the work is done. Not a replacement for the Living Building Challenge, the Michelin Guide, or the Sustainable Development Goals: it is the maintenance layer under them. Their instruments point at the building that does not exist yet. This one points at the building you are sitting in.

A provisioner is a person who helps a place get better and proves the work. Your status comes from the work and the receipt, not from buying a course.

Money

What costs money, and what never does

Free: the standing
The reading recomputes from receipts every time this page opens, the authority document is free to read, and every verification is free forever. A Standing cannot be purchased at any price, only worked.
Five dollars: the teaching
The Ground Rungs course (paid page) teaches every ground-level step to craft standard, for one payment. Buying it does not award a title; doing and proving the work is what makes someone a provisioner. The steps’ names and outputs stay free on this page forever.
Pay: the work
When a buyer funds a job, the posted price settles to whoever did the work, written onchain, public and permanent. A settlement paid by us is never counted as outside demand; the board’s live counters are the record. Doing the work costs nothing to enter.

Run it yourself

Nothing on this page asks to be believed.

The standard is a public document, the reading recomputes from receipts, and how much work it covers is checked by a test, never quoted as a number.

For developers: the three checks 
curl -s "https://vealth.net/labor/standing?place=5665%20Wilshire"
curl -s "https://vealth.net/labor/standard"
# from the vealth repo root (this one needs the codebase, not just a terminal)
npm run standard:coverage

The first recomputes the Standing above from settled receipts and names its evidence per condition. The second returns this standard’s full text, machine-readable. The third proves every published kind of work has exactly one home in the standard, and it fails our build when that stops being true.

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