Research & validation

Credibility should be inspectable.

CLEAR is currently evidence-informed, not scientifically proven. This page makes the sources, reasoning, limitations, and validation programme visible.

Foundation sources

Established work informing the model

OECD Results-Based Management Glossary

Outcomes, outputs, impacts, baselines, indicators, results chains, and review.

OECD Effective Results Frameworks

Balanced outcome evidence, realistic targets, methodology notes, and metric-gaming risk.

UK Green Book & Magenta Book

Theory of change, assumptions, mechanisms, context, causal contribution, and evaluation.

NIST SP 800-55 Volume 1

Measure definition, selection, documentation, evidence quality, and decision usefulness.

NIST SP 800-82 Rev. 3

OT-specific safety, reliability, availability, physical-process, and performance constraints.

HSE HSG254

Leading and lagging indicators connected to critical risk controls and review.

CDC Program Evaluation Framework

Logic models, short- to long-term outcomes, contextual factors, and iterative evaluation.

GOV.UK Service Manual

Evidence-based user needs, end-to-end service outcomes, and mixed-method evaluation.

GOV.UK Discovery and Roadmap Guidance

Decision-focused user research, critical assumptions, representative participation, and iterative value-oriented roadmaps.

UK CMA Price Transparency Guidance

Clear total pricing, mandatory fees, informed customer choice, and protection against misleading presentation.

DORA Software Delivery Performance

Balanced software flow, deployment instability, recovery, rework, and sustainable continuous delivery.

Microsoft SaaS Well-Architected Guidance

Tenant-aware reliability, explicit service commitments, customer journeys, and architecture trade-offs.

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

Migration readiness, business-outcome alignment, benefit realisation, operating capability, and value tracking.

OECD Digital Public Service Principles

Accessible, equitable, joined-up, user-driven, measurable, and accountable public-service transformation.

NIST NICE and Incident Response Guidance

Task-based capability, observable proficiency, role context, simulation, and effectiveness testing.

US EPA Water and Circularity Guidance

Water balances, baselines, boundary-aware resource evidence, productive reuse, lifecycle measurement, and harm prevention.

Validation programme

Evidence at more than one level.

Recognition cannot be manufactured through confident copy. CLEAR must show that its constructs are coherent, its tools can be applied consistently, and its use improves the quality of reasoning and decisions.

  1. 01
    Conceptual

    Map constructs and claims to research, standards, or explicit CLEAR reasoning.

  2. 02
    Content

    Review relevance, completeness, clarity, and domain risk with cross-industry specialists.

  3. 03
    Reliability

    Compare how independent reviewers classify and score the same outcome records.

  4. 04
    Usability

    Test whether practitioners can use the model without author assistance.

  5. 05
    Field pilots

    Apply CLEAR in materially different contexts and document when it helps or fails.

  6. 06
    Longitudinal

    Evaluate decision quality, evidence quality, review discipline, and learning over time.

Permitted today

Evidence-informed · Working method · Under practitioner review

Not permitted today

Scientifically proven · Universally validated · Guarantees results