What one record contains.

Every record in LifeBench describes one real activity, end to end: what went in, what was produced — and then the part every other system leaves out: what it actually did to a person's life, in which area of their life, confirmed by that person and by someone who was there.

The record has a name — the IDEFRIA schema. It extends IDEF0, a functional-modelling standard used in engineering for decades, which stops at what was produced. IDEFRIA carries the record two steps further: to the confirmed result in a person's life, and to what both sides of the exchange meant, said, and received.

Scoring

Results are scored within the area of life they touched — health, money, work, home and so on — never rolled into one number for a person. LifeBench scores what services and decisions did; it does not score people, and it keeps no running tally on anyone's life.

How the rules change

No rule changes silently. Every proposed change is published as a draft, opened for public comment, reviewed, and released as a new version. The full history stays public, permanently.

Licence

The Standard is free to read and free to adopt. You do not need permission, and you do not need to use our software.