Materiality Dial — Calibration Patterns
Chapter 12 of Loop Engineering introduces the 3×3 materiality dial: stakes (low / medium / high) crossed with autonomy posture (supervised / bounded / autonomous). The diagonal is the safe operating zone; off-diagonal cells require explicit compensating controls.
This page hosts the extended calibration patterns by industry domain that did not fit the print budget. Reads alongside the chapter, not as a replacement.
Pattern catalog by domain
- Software engineering — refactor scope vs autonomy posture; production-touching operations.
- Healthcare — diagnostic assist vs treatment decision; reversibility profile by patient consequence.
- Legal — research vs filing; citation faithfulness as the dominant stake.
- Policy — synthesis vs recommendation; evidence-quality matching.
- Education — grading throughput vs rubric refinement; cohort-pattern recognition.
- Customer support — routing vs resolution; escalation triggers.
- Financial operations — reconciliation vs disbursement; audit-trail requirements.
Per-domain sub-pages ship as Tier 3 content. The print chapter carries the framework; this site will carry the extended industry patterns.