The machine is wider than you were told.
Here is its actual shape, and the route past it.
Three index managers appear behind 99 of the 255 companies we can see into. That is the layer above the parents — and the honest denominator is the second number, not the total. We hold no ownership data at all for most companies, so this describes what we can see, not what is there.
measured 2026-08-03T23:37:23.044Z · sources: our companies, brand and ownership tables, each row with its own filing
Sign
Signing is first because everything after it is counted, and a count needs someone to be counted.
| Your grip — how often your money touches it | Thirty seconds, once. |
| What that is based on | the charter, read and signed |
No figures on this stop yet. We have not built its record, and an empty count would read as a zero rather than as a gap.
The move: Put your name to the charter. It is withdrawable, always, without explanation.
Bread
First of the money stops because it is where our record is deepest and the exits are most mapped — not because it is the largest harm. We build the habit where the evidence is thickest.
| Your grip — how often your money touches it | Weekly, in almost every household. |
| What that is based on | stated — how often an ordinary week touches this |
| Exits — alternatives we have mapped | 41 · 1 sourced |
| Record — documented conduct | 46 sourced · see it |
The line stands at Loblaw Companies Ltd. here. The target above it is the rule-writing, not the brand — but we hold no sourced record of who writes those rules on its behalf, so this card names none.
The move: Move one staple off the chain, permanently. Decide it once and it repeats itself without you.
The Toll
Second, not first, and the swap is deliberate. A rail switch costs nothing, which argues for opening here — but we have mapped almost no exits on this rail yet, and a stop with nowhere to go is not a stop. Mapping them is the prerequisite.
| Your grip — how often your money touches it | Every card payment, every time. |
| What that is based on | stated — the rail sits under every other stop on this line |
| Exits — alternatives we have mapped | 1 · 0 sourced |
| Record — documented conduct | 66 sourced · see it |
The line stands at Visa here. The target above it is the rule-writing, not the brand — but we hold no sourced record of who writes those rules on its behalf, so this card names none.
The move: Where a card is asked for and debit will do, use debit. Nothing to cancel, nothing to join.
Waiting on mapped exits for this rail. We will not open a stop we cannot route you out of.
Money
A separate stop from the Toll, on its own terms. Moving where your money is held is about who holds it — it is not the interchange move and this line will not fuse the two, because the organisations that would make that pairing tidy lobby on the other side of the interchange question.
| Your grip — how often your money touches it | Every day, quietly, whether or not you think about it. |
| What that is based on | stated — a balance is held somewhere every hour it exists |
| Exits — alternatives we have mapped | 12 · 1 sourced |
| Record — documented conduct | 29 sourced · see it |
The line stands at RBC here. The target above it is the rule-writing, not the brand — but we hold no sourced record of who writes those rules on its behalf, so this card names none.
The move: Move where your balance is held. One afternoon of paperwork, then nothing.
Opens after Bread.
Time
The only stop that pays you back the same evening, which is why it sits in the middle rather than at the end.
| Your grip — how often your money touches it | Hours a day, for most people. |
| What that is based on | stated — attention is the one thing you can withdraw immediately |
| Exits — alternatives we have mapped | 9 · 0 sourced |
| Record — documented conduct | 105 sourced · see it |
The line stands at Meta here. The target above it is the rule-writing, not the brand — but we hold no sourced record of who writes those rules on its behalf, so this card names none.
The move: Pick one feed and put it down, on a date you choose with other people.
Opens after Bread.
The Everything Store
Late, because convenience is the hardest habit on the line. Every earlier stop is practice for this one.
| Your grip — how often your money touches it | Whenever something is easier to order than to find. |
| What that is based on | stated — the habit is the product |
| Exits — alternatives we have mapped | 53 · 1 sourced |
| Record — documented conduct | 163 sourced · see it |
The line stands at Amazon here. The target above it is the rule-writing, not the brand — but we hold no sourced record of who writes those rules on its behalf, so this card names none.
The move: Take one category back — a single kind of thing, bought somewhere else for a season.
Opens after Bread.
Home
The stop where redirecting money stops being the instrument. You cannot switch landlords the way you switch a loaf, which is why the compass hands this plank to the rules rather than the wallet.
| Your grip — how often your money touches it | Monthly, and the largest line in most budgets. |
| What that is based on | stated — rent is the payment nobody can redirect |
No figures on this stop yet. We have not built its record, and an empty count would read as a zero rather than as a gap.
The move: The move here is civic, not financial: the same ask, made at your own council, in the same month as everyone else's.
We have not built this stop's record yet. No company page, no documented actions, no mapped exits — so it carries no figures below.
The Floor
Not a target. The condition every stop is measured against: everyone fed, housed, safe, and with time left over to actually live.
| Your grip — how often your money touches it | The reason for the line. |
| What that is based on | the charter's own words |
No figures on this stop yet. We have not built its record, and an empty count would read as a zero rather than as a gap.
The move: Every stop leads here. Nothing is required of you at this one.
The order of these stops is our judgement, published with its reasoning. The facts on each stop are computed from public records and change when the records change.
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