About

Brandon S. Goe is an independent researcher developing Structural Command Theory (SCT), an integrated framework for analyzing authority, conduct, and visibility as three categorically distinct dimensions of organizational command.

The research grounds its analytical reach in two practitioner traditions:

The trade. Brandon came up through the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers — initially Local 305, where he completed his apprenticeship and was issued his journeyman card; currently Local 270 as his home jurisdiction. He worked as a journeyman inside wireman across multiple jurisdictions on industrial construction projects, and he was still working in the trade when the framework was articulated. The trade's organizational architecture — the Brotherhood's lateral solidarity, the apprenticeship pathway, the workforce-protective structure of the union local — is one of two practitioner laboratories the framework draws from.

The rank. Brandon is a senior noncommissioned officer in the United States Army Reserve with nineteen years of service. The military's rank-based authority architecture — explicitly enumerated, doctrinally specified, accountable at every layer — is the second practitioner laboratory. The framework engages "military organizations with rank-based authority architectures" as a doctrinal domain per the SCT specification (Goe 2026a §10.2).

Publication and authorship

The three working papers (Goe 2026a, 2026b, 2026c) are deposited at Zenodo under CC-BY 4.0 and constitute the prior-art foundation for the academic program. The trade-book source narrative — The Code in the Conduit — is targeted for spring 2027 publication; The Machine That Sees Itself (executive operating view) and The Practitioner's Handbook (deployment instrument) are in development. The full publishing program is The Code in the Conduit series; two follow-on books in development carry their own titles.

ORCID: 0009-0000-5848-910X

AI assistance disclosure

This site, the three working papers, and the books-in-development were drafted with AI assistance (Claude, Anthropic). All content is reviewed, edited, and authored by Brandon S. Goe, who bears full responsibility for the claims, citations, and conclusions. AI assists with first-pass drafting, source organization, citation formatting, and editing; doctrinal claims, evidence analysis, and structural commitments are the author's.

Contact

For framework critique, scholarly engagement, or anything else: brandon@commandanalysisgroup.com.