ClusterOS Diagnostic Profile
Liverpool City Region Digital Creative
Liverpool City Region Digital Creative runs on 100 evidence items (Liverpool City Region Digital Creative UKRI grants: 246 grants, £289m total,). The diagnostic resolves a Extraction-Narrative configuration at MEDIUM confidence.
Value extraction events generate narrative about ecosystem success; narrative legitimises continued extraction by framing it as ecosystem contribution; uncertainty about whether extraction is harmful absorbed by the success narrative.
Intermediaries produce narrative about their facilitation role; narrative legitimises intermediary existence and funding; uncertainty about direct coupling absorbed by narrative rather than demonstration.
"If one public report (e.g., annual ecosystem review, Combined Authority performance report) separated extraction metrics (capital leaving region, talent exiting to non-regional employers, IP licensed to external entities) from retention metrics (capital reinvested locally, talent employed regionally, IP commercialised by regional actors) for 2 years, it might reduce the system's ability to absorb uncertainty about extraction through success narratives by making the difference...
Leverage hypotheses are testable perturbations, not prescriptions. Where demand-side behaviour is weakly visible, the correct move is observation — improving visibility before attempting change.
A full ClusterOS diagnostic adds actor questionnaire data, working sessions, and anchor interviews — producing higher-confidence stall identification, board-ready stack analysis, and leverage hypotheses calibrated to your specific context.