The Price of Research
Memo — Origin of the Dispositif
- Effective starting point: Receipt of my 90 days of unpaid unemployment compensation. That triggered the first sense of structural redress.
- Hypothesis: If a public structure can retroactively recover such a debt, then a private one can acknowledge deeper harm.
- Initial phase: Around that time, I had already begun working on the restaurant case — not strategically, but as clarification.
- Trigger: Henrik Kling’s reply (April 17) shut down all forms of recognition or dialogue.
- Consequence: I understood that a counterweight would be necessary.
- Pivot: That counterweight wouldn’t be legal — it would be structural. Elite Hotels became the relevant perimeter.
- Intention: Not to escalate — but to make visible what HR had failed to absorb, within the frame.
- Outcome: Shift from micro-investigation to structural mapping, with the goal of creating a scalable dispositif.
Behind these documents lies more than investigation — it’s a full-stack continuity simulation:
- Architecture design: From scratch, using Astro.js, Markdown, React & version control via GitHub
- Web & SEO engineering: Handling DNS settings, custom email routing, and Google indexing from end to end
- Documentation pipeline: Strategic use of Obsidian & Notion to produce 150+ documents, translated, annotated, and archived
- Legal-technical blend: Structuring evidence, refining claims, and preparing exit options like a crisis consultant would
Each page, each table, and each PDF was curated with the intent of making things clearer — not just for legal purposes, but to build a model of organizational resilience. The result is a research dossier valued at over 500€ in upfront cost, now public.
This page outlines the time, money, tools, and investigative choices made to compile and document this archive. From data extraction and translation to document purchase and workflow traceability — everything is logged.
📄 Document Acquisition Costs
- Bolagsverket Historical Extracts (×3): 375 SEK
- Corporate Beneficial Ownership Reports: 260 SEK
- Property & Address Mapping: 125 SEK
- Total Direct Cost (as of May 2025): 760 SEK
🕒 Time Invested
- Translation from Swedish to English: ~12h
- Document analysis and synthesis: ~15h
- HTML formatting and layout edits: ~6h
- Legal correspondence preparation: ~4h
- Total tracked hours: ~37h
💻 Digital Workflow
- Writing & Structuring: Obsidian, Notion, ChatGPT
- Archiving: ArchiveBox, local PDF backups
- OS-level logs: Session tracking via ScreenTime (MacOS) & ActivityWatch
🔍 Motivation
Transparency isn't just a principle — it's an audit trail. This section exists so that any restaurateur, journalist, or curious party can understand the effort behind the inquiry. It also allows readers to evaluate the seriousness of the method, and the value of making silence speak.
🧪 Internal Classification – AI Usage Grid (V1)
This personal classification grid is used to track structural dependency on AI-generated material across sections. It supports time cost analysis and authorship transparency during documentation work.
- 0% – 20% AI (Human-Led) → Fully human initiative, AI used only as a passive formatting or verification tool.
- 20% – 65% AI (Hybrid Build) → AI provided substantial assistance in structuring, wording, or logic, but final judgment and intent remained human.
- 65%+ AI (Structurally Assisted) → Structure, logic, or flow heavily driven by AI drafts, with minor rewording or human curation.
Note: These classifications are declared voluntarily. They reflect the internal logic of authorship and do not aim to define industry norms or signal editorial posture.
🧨 Irreversible Precedent – Method Contamination Effect
The moment this agreement is signed, we establish a public precedent. If the operation succeeds and gains attention, it will break the industry's silence. Second-order effects will follow: increased suspicion towards discreet profiles, the slow erosion of immersion-based tactics, tightening of managerial control lines.
Even if the methodology is formalized, its operational value drops as soon as it becomes known within the ecosystem.
⚠️ Structural Limit of an Overvisible Victory
The method will be known. But its effectiveness relied entirely on invisibility. Every future “undercover” attempt will be viewed with doubt — even if genuine. The effect will fade, but not before 3 to 5 years. Until then, every immersion carries suspicion.
What you gain in visibility, you lose in repeatability. This is a one-shot model.
🧬 Strategic Reflection to Embed in the Collaboration
The model can be transmitted. The analytical grids can be shared. But the social mirror effect — the one that reversed Quan — cannot be recreated.
That’s the price of exposure. It’s also a call to invent Phase 2: a post-immersion model.