A.I.R.O.N. component · record stewardship

V.A.U.L.T.™

V.A.U.L.T. is Dingfelder’s record-stewardship doctrine: private, organized records that remain controlled by the operator. In Crank™, that becomes My V.A.U.L.T. Records — reports, photos, routes, notes, trip records, and vehicle history kept local unless the user chooses to share them.

Open Crank™A.I.R.O.N.Field Handbook

Simple principle

Your records should belong to you.

V.A.U.L.T. is not about watching the operator. It is about protecting the operator’s record. The record should be clear, organized, available, and controlled by the person or workspace that owns it.

Local-firstRecords should be stored and organized close to the work unless an operator chooses to export or share them.

Operator-controlledThe person responsible for the record decides when it leaves the local environment.

Clear boundariesUnsupported, unavailable, or estimated data should be marked honestly rather than implied.