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Three companion tools accompany this article. They are free, designed for immediate use, and require no additional consultancy support to deploy. They are provided as a single zip file with all three tools included.
Give me an address and the spreadsheet arrives as a link you can open on any device. I do not send anything else unless you ask for it on the second box.
Spreadsheet, about 17 KB.
The article it comes from
This tool was built alongside The Permit and the Permission: A Long Look at Social License to Operate in the Age of Critical Minerals , which explains the thinking behind each section. The tool is the part you take on site.
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This is what social license to operate looks like in 2026. Not a slide in a sustainability deck. Not a number on a regulator's checklist. A daily judgment
Everything else that is free
The three diagnostics score your grievance mechanism, your due diligence process or a community's readiness to negotiate, and the tension map tracks where friction is being reported.
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