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Every living system is governed by one fundamental law:
Life must sustain the conditions that allow life to continue.
Nature has followed this mandate for billions of years.
It is time for business to do the same.
Circularity Edge helps leaders design organizations that grow profitably while aligning with this core law of life.
Why Circularity Edge Exists
Modern organizations are attempting to manage living-system challenges with tools never designed for them.
As a result, businesses today operate within:
- fragmented value chains
- linear supply and use models
- incoherent carbon strategies
- imprecise and misleading sustainability language
- flat, two-dimensional frameworks applied to three-dimensional reality
These conditions produce familiar outcomes
- supply chain fragility
- regulatory and reputational shock
- resource scarcity
- stalled innovation
- rising systemic and operational risk
These are not isolated problems.
They are symptoms of violating the Primal Mandate™.
Circularity Edge exists to restore alignment.
The Framework Architecture
To fulfill the Primal Mandate™, leaders require tools designed for living systems, not mechanistic abstractions.
Circularity Edge applies a proprietary framework architecture originated by Ken Alston, developed through decades of real-world business, design, and systems work:
Design Like Nature™
Business models redesigned according to the logic, patterns, and cyclicality of living systems.
The Tactical Tetrahedron™
A three-dimensional decision model that reveals systemic blind spots invisible to linear thinking.
Vitacide Risk™
A diagnostic lens exposing how business activity can quietly undermine life-support systems—often before financial risk appears.
Carbon Coherence™
A precise carbon grammar: placing carbon in the right form, in the right place, in the right quantity to support life.
Life Cycle → Use Cycle™
Restoring semantic accuracy: living things have life cycles; human-made products have use cycles.
This single distinction changes everything.
Together, these frameworks form the operating architecture of Primal Mandate™–aligned enterprises.
How Engagement Begins
Alignment with the Primal Mandate™ cannot be achieved through strategy alone.
It begins with clarity.
The Primal Mandate™ Diagnostic
The diagnostic is the required entry point for working with Circularity Edge.
It is a structured assessment designed to reveal:
- where your organization is aligned with life-supporting conditions
- where hidden systemic risks are accumulating
- which assumptions no longer match living reality
This is not a survey.
It is a disciplined inquiry followed by a senior-level reflection.
Who This Work Is For
Circularity Edge works with leaders carrying real responsibility for the future of their organizations, including:
- CEOs and founders
- C-suite executives
- Boards and governance committees
- Product, innovation, and operations leaders
If your decisions shape the long-term life-supporting capacity of an organization, this work is for you.
Leadership & Stewardship
Ken Alston
Architect of the Primal Mandate™ & Core Frameworks
Ken Alston is one of the world’s longest-practicing business sustainability strategists and the originator of the Primal Mandate™ and its supporting frameworks.
His work replaces outdated, two-dimensional sustainability models with systems designed for living reality.
Kevin De Cuba
Co-Founder, Circularity Edge & Americas Lead
Circularity Edge’s work across the Americas and the Caribbean is led by Kevin de Cuba, founder of the Circular Economy Platform of the Americas (CEPA) and the Circular Economy Forum of the Americas (CEFA).
Kevin has worked alongside Ken for over 15 years and leads applied engagement, regional programs, and Spanish-speaking initiatives across North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean.
Together, they ensure that Primal Mandate™–aligned design moves from architecture into real-world execution.
Regional Focus
Circularity Edge operates across the Americas and the Caribbean, working with organizations navigating complex regulatory, cultural, and ecological realities.
Spanish-language engagement and regional delivery are led by Kevin de Cuba, with dedicated pathways for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Your Next Step
Begin With the Primal Mandate™ Diagnostic
The Primal Mandate™ is not an aspiration. This is where alignment begins.
It is an operating requirement for any enterprise that intends to endure.
If you are ready to see where your organization stands:
**Life can only continue when the systems that support life are protected, strengthened, and renewed. The Primal Mandate™ is the only true North for sustainable enterprise This is where enduring business begins.**
Ken Alston
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