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Stories of Relational Engineering: the podcast, and its thesis
The November 2024 episode talks about one thing only, and it isn't a technique: the store of relationships every business already has and has never counted. Below is the thesis in full, and the link to the episode.
Published 17 November 2024 · rewritten 16 August 2026
The thesis
An asset that appears on no balance sheet
Clients, suppliers, partners, collaborators — and each of their networks. None of these items is on the balance sheet, and together they're worth more than half the fixed assets of many businesses.
The discipline gives it an accounting name: Relational Capital. It isn't your "contact network" and it isn't your "client base" — a list is an archive, a capital is something that can be put on the balance sheet, activated and accounted for.
The difference compared with a piece of machinery is that this asset doesn't depreciate: if managed, it grows, and if neglected it doesn't slowly lose value — it freezes.
Why nobody counts it
Because counting it requires knowing who knows whom — and no management software asks that.
It's the gap the Relational Footprint fills: not the names in someone's contact book, but the shape of their sphere of influence, declared across nineteen sectors.
From the episode
The four principles, and their limit
Empathy, active listening, reciprocity, sharing. They're correct, and on their own they've never built anything: it's worth saying why.
Four principles describe a desirable behaviour. A desirable behaviour in a business lasts as long as the enthusiasm of the person who adopted it — usually the owner, usually a few months.
What makes them operational is the boring part: someone with the mandate to apply them every day, and three numbers that say whether they're producing anything.
The mandate
It's the Referral Director: an in-house, trained role, with a daily routine and set hours. It isn't a task to tack onto the end of someone's day when they already have another job.
The measure
How many introductions came in, how many became meetings, how many became deals. It's the bare minimum, and it's already more than almost any business can say about its own network. The rest is on /metodo/.
What we measure
Three numbers, with their window
The episode talked about KPIs in the abstract. These are ours, read straight off the live system, and the third is the one nobody would put in an episode.
2.141
Qualified Connectors in the network
As of 13/08/2026 · only profiles with a completed bio and reciprocity goals, excluding unsubscribed users
68%
Hits the right person on the first match
From launch to 13/08/2026 · rating ≥ 4,5 on the first attempt · Scouting_Match excluded
6%
Of delivered matches receive no response at all
Last 30 days as of 13/08/2026 · was 10%, measured with the same method
A number with no window and no method isn't a number, it's a sentence (Fifth Law). The updated readings are on /prove/, each with its date.
The episode
Listen to it
The video is on YouTube and it's a link, not an embedded box on the page: an embedded player would open a connection to a third-party service before you've chosen whether to accept it, and on a site that talks about trust that would be a contradiction.
The first step
Where your company stands, in one number
AIRA-SCAN© measures the Relational Capital your company already has: ten questions, three minutes, no registration required. Your browser calculates the score and it appears immediately, along with the dimensions where you're losing the most points.
The extended report then arrives by email, and within one working day someone calls you: you look at the result together and assess whether the AIRA-DX© Stoic Analysis makes sense for your company. It's free and limited to twelve a week, so it isn't owed to whoever takes the check-up: it's decided together.
Would you rather just talk it through? The number is 0549 888808.