A standing place among the ten.
The Residency is the system you are held within: continuous, authored, and maintained to one standard for as long as you are a member.
Membership is a structure, not a subscription.
The Residency is the form your care takes once you are admitted: a standing place within an Architect's cohort of ten, and the system built to hold you there.
It is continuous. There is no course to complete and no programme to graduate from. The plan is reviewed, the proof is read, and the structure is maintained for as long as you are one of the ten.
What you hold is access, to the Architect, to the method, and to the standard, without exception and without the eleventh.
Four standing provisions, maintained without exception.
The standing survey
Continuous measurement of every system, read and held by the Architect. Your data lives in one place, with one reader, not scattered across providers.
The authored plan
A single protocol for the whole, revised against proof and the season of your life. One plan, never a folder of competing opinions.
Coordinated specialists
Whatever the work requires is commissioned beneath the Architect and answers to the plan. You are never asked to manage the people managing you.
The standing review
Regular counsel with the Architect, in private and without haste. The relationship is measured in decades, and conducted accordingly.
Ten places. No more.
An Architect holds ten members and no eleventh. A place opens only when one is vacated, or when a new Architect has been proven to the standard. Admission is, by design, rare.