ClusterOS Diagnostic Profile
Liverpool City Region Visitor Economy
Liverpool City Region Visitor Economy runs on 81 evidence items (Liverpool City Region Visitor Economy UKRI grants: 46 grants, £36m total, 1 d). 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.
"If the Combined Authority's annual Visitor Economy reporting (which currently cites £5.2bn economy, 57,000 jobs, evidence 018) were restructured to separate: (a) value generated (visitor spend, employment), (b) value retained (local ownership %, local procurement %, graduate retention), (c) value extracted (HQ locations outside region, profit destinations, talent outflows) — it might reduce the system's ability to absorb success signals via narrative by making the difference between generation and retention...
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.