Core Concepts

Radial has a small, consistent vocabulary. Learn these terms once and the rest of the product makes sense.

The three tiers

Everything in Radial connects through three tiers:

1. Your Items Library (org-wide): everything your organisation does. Set up from the industries you selected, then customised by you.
2. Project WorkMAP™ (one per project): the subset of items relevant to a specific job. This is what you track as you deliver.
3. Career Portfolios (per person): the verified items each person has delivered, accumulated automatically over time.

The same piece of verified work flows through all three, with no double entry.

Items, Areas, and Fields

Work is organised into a simple hierarchy:

• Items: the individual pieces of work your organisation delivers. Examples: Design Philosophy, Site Inspection, Risk & Reliability Assessment. Items live in your Items Library and are selected per project.
• Areas: groups of related items. For example, Structural Engineering Design is an Area containing items like Seismic Loads, Wind Loads, and Durability.
• Fields: groups of related Areas, representing broad disciplines or industry categories.

The WorkMAP™

A WorkMAP™ is a project’s verified record of delivery: the items you chose for that project, tracked from not-started through to verified. In everyday use, a project is its WorkMAP™. See Projects & the WorkMAP™.

The three roles

Every item on a project has three roles:

Role	Responsibility
Owner	Assigns the work and oversees delivery.
Completer	Does the work and marks it complete.
Verifier	A qualified colleague who confirms it was done, and done right.

Separating doing the work from confirming it is what makes the record trustworthy. A single person can hold different roles on different items.

Verification

Verification is the heart of Radial. When a Verifier confirms an item, it becomes part of the permanent record and is added to the Completer’s career portfolio.

This is what sets Radial apart from other project tools: the record is verified evidence, not self-reported claims. Nobody marks their own work as proven. A qualified colleague does.

Presets: notes, RedButton, and SpecScan

Each item can carry presets, structured detail attached to the work:

• Notes: what was specifically done (methods, standards, deliverables).
• RedButton: flagged risks, with severity and resolution status.
• SpecScan: key phrases checked against a specification or compliance document.

Presets are optional, but they’re what turn a completed item into rich, defensible career evidence.