# Authority Building & Codification — Jean Dorff Consultancy

Turn expertise into recognized authority. Structured methodology for codifying knowledge into frameworks, intellectual property, and market distinction.

Your expertise exists. The question is whether anyone outside your network can verify it. The challenge is not a lack of expertise — it is that expertise remains uncodified.

## The Authority Bridge methodology

1. **Clarify** — Identify the principles, patterns, and distinctions that define your work. Excavation, not invention.
2. **Codify** — Turn that expertise into named frameworks, documented processes, and a vocabulary that belongs to you.
3. **Communicate** — Express it through positioning, publishing, and speaking, so it becomes teachable, searchable, and citable.

## The Authority Genome — five layers

- **The Constant** — The through-line that connects your first engagement to your most recent.
- **The Author** — Your documented, citable body of work.
- **The Canon** — The structured set of ideas you've codified into teachable form.
- **The Lineage** — The thinkers, traditions, and disciplines that ground your approach.
- **The Guild** — The peers, collaborators, and institutions that validate your standing.

Authority gaps are sorted with the Fixable / Argued distinction: what can be corrected this week, and what requires original work.