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

Books. Three Volume 1s were published 2026-08-01: The Code in the Conduit, the trade-book source narrative and Vol 1 of the CIC series; The Machine That Sees Itself, the executive operating view and Vol 1 of the Honest Authority series; and The Practitioner's Handbook, the deployment instrument and Vol 1 of the SCT Tool Kit series. Each opens a distinct series arc; Volume 2s are in development.

Working papers. The three working papers (Goe 2026a, 2026b, 2026c) are deposited at Zenodo under CC-BY 4.0 and constitute the peer-referable prior-art foundation for the academic program.

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.