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A seven-capability map for aligning the public conditions of trustworthy digital coordination.
The Pleiades takes its name from the constellation conventionally represented by seven stars. Each point remains distinct. The pattern becomes visible through the relation among them.
This is also how the framework should be understood.
Pleiades is not a technical protocol stack, a universal deployment sequence or a complete institutional model. It identifies seven capacities that policy, infrastructure and institutional design may need to align when consequences cross organisational boundaries.
Some capacities become prerequisites in a particular use. A financial claim cannot rely upon records whose provenance is unknown. A representative cannot carry a mandate that the receiving institution does not recognise. But different sectors and jurisdictions begin with different legal systems, public infrastructures, risks and institutional inheritances. Their workstreams will often develop concurrently.
The framework maps the capacities. Convergence governs the handoffs among them.
Interdependence makes reliance unavoidable. Pleiades helps determine whether the public conditions exist for that reliance to become warranted, bounded and corrigible.
It does not ask every jurisdiction to build the same institution in the same order. It asks seven connected questions: