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Before a consequential decision
Explore how the same proposal looks at Household, Service, Authority, Civic and Strategic altitude.
Public Sector perspective instrument · Deterministic exploration
See the same public decision from five altitudes.
Before a consequential decision moves forward, examine what it looks like at Household, Service, Authority, Civic and Strategic altitude.
Choose a Public Sector area and move through it. The governing frame, accountability, actors, dependencies and consequences change as the altitude changes. Seven core analytical viewports are available across every Public Sector area, with a richer System view available in nine authored system models.
24 Public Sector areas · 5 analytical altitudes · 120 authored views · 9 richer system models
Test the perspective
Situations worth exploring
Orbital Scene is designed to be tested against decisions where changing perspective may reveal something that is less visible from a single service or organisational position.
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When pressure may move
Examine whether a saving or service change connects to cost, demand, risk or responsibility elsewhere.
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When national policy reaches local delivery
Trace how a policy, funding change or regulatory requirement appears at different levels of the system.
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When an issue crosses boundaries
Explore connections between council services, public partners, providers, communities and residents.
Core logic
- 01Start with one decision.
- 02Altitude determines the viewport.
- 03The viewport changes what governs the judgement.
- 04The judgement changes as accountability, actors, dependencies and consequences come into view.
Method
Authored perspective, disciplined by evidence.
Orbital Scene examines the same public decision from five analytical altitudes. Each view makes some things clearer and others less visible. External evidence is kept separate from authored interpretation, material claims are traceable to their sources, and the instrument remains politically neutral without pretending that politics is absent from public decisions.
Change the altitude
See the same decision from a different analytical position.
Disclose the loss
Every perspective states what it brings into view and what it cannot resolve.
Separate evidence from interpretation
External claims are sourced; Orbital Scene's analytical framing is identified as authored.
Remain decision-neutral
Orbital Scene supports professional judgement without choosing the preferred decision.
The Altitudes
Five altitudes. One issue. Five different distributions of power.
The altitude model is fixed. It does not vary by council, service or political administration — only the viewport moves.
Altitude axis · 05 highestRange widens ↑ · Resolution falls ↑
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Strategic
The settlement unit. National policy, funding regimes, markets and multi-year structural drift.
The rules of the game, and who writes them.
Contextual range5 of 5Individual detail1 of 5 - 04
Civic
The place unit. The council alongside health, police, housing providers, schools and residents.
A whole place and every institution acting inside it.
Contextual range4 of 5Individual detail2 of 5 - 03
Authority
The corporate unit. Directorates, budgets, statutory duties and the whole-council ledger.
The authority as a single accountable organisation.
Contextual range3 of 5Individual detail3 of 5 - 02
Service
The delivery unit. Caseloads, queues, thresholds and the practitioners holding them.
One service's demand, capacity and decision rules.
Contextual range2 of 5Individual detail4 of 5 - 01
Household
The direct-impact unit. One person, household, occupier, business or other directly affected party followed through one concrete experience of the decision.
One continuous experience of consequence, with high fidelity to direct impact and low resolution of wider organisational or system conditions.
Contextual range1 of 5Individual detail5 of 5
Why Deterministic
Because a public decision must be reproducible.
Every production view in OrbitalScene is authored and versioned as an explicit mapping. Selecting an area and an altitude returns a fixed view — nothing is generated, sampled, ranked or inferred.
Same area + same altitude + same content version = same output. Built initially for English local government.
Read product controlsReproducible
Within a content version, the same area and altitude return the same authored view.
Auditable
Every scenario view is readable, versioned source, not a model output.
Local
No account, API call, database dependency or model inference for the core render.
Honest
Each altitude discloses what it cannot resolve.
Pilot feedback
Use it on a live decision.
Test Orbital Scene against a live decision before it reaches a senior forum. Use the five altitudes, inspect cross-working dependencies, and review the Receipt and References with colleagues.
Enter the Scene