The modern restructuring library.
How AI actually changes organizations, how the informal network really works, and what the law tests when a plan becomes real — written from the primary sources, cited by name, kept current. No gated PDFs, no email walls.
Task-level exposure scoring (Eloundou et al. 2023, O*NET), automate/augment/elevate/reskill, work-first redesign, and where the legal tests come in.
The five relationship dimensions, betweenness centrality without mystery, and the canon: Granovetter's weak ties, Burt's structural holes, Krackhardt's informal networks.
What 29 C.F.R. § 1607.4(D) actually says, the retention-rate subtlety in RIFs, a worked example, and why Fisher’s exact test rides along.
Federal thresholds and the 90-day aggregation rule, why the establishment is the unit of analysis, and how CA/NY/NJ/IL change the answer.
Why there is no magic span, segment targets over global averages, the structural smells, and why delayering without work redesign rebounds.
Ownership maps before org charts, founder spans, hiring managers deliberately, scenario-based headcount plans, and the five-minute bus-factor map.
Why this library exists.
Restructuring practice is drowning in vendor content that cites nothing and concludes "buy our platform." This library takes the opposite bet: name the primary sources — the Uniform Guidelines, the WARN statute, Granovetter, Burt, Eloundou — explain the methods plainly, and let the tooling earn its place by implementing them faithfully. Where an article touches the law, it says loudly that it is not legal advice. Where a method has limits, the limits are in the article.