How the record thinks.
The first version of WellDash is documents in, evidence out — and a record you can talk to. These notes are what happens to the evidence after that: the mechanisms inside a function-first care record, the science behind each one, and where the boundaries sit. Written for practitioners, providers and the systems that read alongside them.
What the first version does, and the map of the whole thing.
One note explains where a service actually starts. The other maps the four pillars end to end. Everything after those two goes a level deeper.
Documents in, evidence out — and a record you can talk to
Start with what you already have: send in the care notes, incident records and letters your current system produces, get typed evidence back, and ask the record questions. Then the fidelity ladder — documents, then voice, then the full capture grammar.
24 August 2026 Read the note The mapThe grammar of what happened: four pillars of a function-first care record
Fifty years to find the function; one problem left. The fade, the easier ask, the typed context pieces and the body-first override — in the words the system actually uses, with the citations and the boundaries attached.
24 August 2026 Read the noteRead the thinking behind the product.
Every note describes the shipped system; anything still in design is labelled as direction, the same way our evidence page labels proposals.
The fade: support that plans its own exit
Two ladders scored at the same time, who actually did the task recorded every time, and what the hands were doing when hands were on — with the rules that keep a fade attributable and the UK reablement evidence behind them.
24 August 2026 Read the note Pillar 2The easier ask: same wage, not the same shape
A replacement is not a tidier behaviour; it is a cheaper way to earn the same outcome. How the ask is taught as a plan step, honoured immediately, and proven from the person’s own record rather than declared by label.
24 August 2026 Read the note Pillar 3An ABC whose A can be counted
Most records leave the antecedent in prose, so the most useful question — what tends to come first — is answered from memory. Typed setting events, a context key, three body clocks, and bands that read rather than diagnose.
24 August 2026 Read the note Pillar 4Body first: the override the mortality reviews demanded
Diagnostic overshadowing is an order-of-operations failure, so the order goes into the structure of the record: PINCH ME at capture, a typed differential that fails closed, three lanes never merged, and the dated dechallenge.
24 August 2026 Read the note JourneyThe independence journey in Down syndrome
Capacity is real and moves; the body rides along all the way; independence is built by fading, not leaps. What a care record has to do to hold a lifespan rather than a placement — and the two questions that are genuinely open.
24 August 2026 Read the note HistoryFifty years to find the function
From Skinner’s consequences to Iwata’s functional analysis, the replacement era and the aggregation correction — what each stage left behind, and the chapter still open: function-finding that never has to be scheduled.
24 August 2026 Read the note ComparisonStorage or evidence: five premises for judging a care record
Capture fidelity, teaching transfer, computed panel evidence, structural change management and what the price difference actually buys — written as properties you can test rather than adjectives you cannot.
24 August 2026 Read the noteThe mechanisms are better seen than described.
The demonstration shows capture, the typed grammar and the ranked responses on synthetic records.