Appendix i — 🎮 Command & Control Systems

How to Build the Brain of Your Revolution

The DIH Command & Control Airtable Base (Or: How to Track 8 Billion People Without Being Creepy)

Here’s how you construct the central nervous system for the War on Disease using Airtable—because apparently Excel wasn’t dystopian enough. This is your complete blueprint for a database that manages every human, dollar, and decision in humanity’s pivot from killing to healing.

Think of it as Facebook’s database if Facebook actually wanted to help people instead of selling their data to whoever’s buying. Every person, every dollar, every vote—all tracked in one place that can’t be corrupted because it’s too transparent to hide anything.

The Architecture: Military Organization Without the Military

The G-Staff Model (Borrowed from People Who Know How to Organize Mass Death)

You steal the military’s organizational structure—the G-Staff model—because they’ve spent centuries perfecting large-scale coordination. The irony of using military command structure to end military spending is not lost on us. It’s actually kind of beautiful.

The entire system revolves around people, not processes. The Personnel Roster is your hub—every other table connects back to actual humans doing actual things. No abstract “stakeholders” or “human resources.” Just people trying not to die.

SECTION 1: G-1 (Personnel Command)

How to Track Every Human Without Being the NSA

Table 1: Personnel Roster (The Master List of Who’s Not Dead Yet)

This is your central hub. Every living human who touches the system gets an entry. Think of it as LinkedIn but useful.

Fields that matter:

  • Personnel ID (Autonumber) - Their unique number in the revolution
  • Full Name (Text) - What their mom calls them when angry
  • Email (Email) - Where you send victory notifications
  • Status (Single Select: Active, Inactive, Prospect) - Are they helping or just lurking?
  • Primary Division (Link to Divisions) - Which part of the machine they power
  • Organization (Link to Organizations) - Who pays their bills
  • Role / Title (Text) - Their excuse for existing
  • Engagements (Link to Engagements) - Every time they did something
  • Projects (Link to Projects & Tasks) - What they’re supposedly working on
  • Campaigns (Link to Campaigns) - Which battles they’re fighting
  • VICTORY Bonds Owned (Link to VICTORY Bonds) - How much skin in the game
  • Referendum Votes (Link to Global Referendum) - Did they vote for not dying?
  • Date Joined (Date) - When they stopped being part of the problem
  • LinkedIn Profile (URL) - For stalking their credentials
  • Notes (Long Text) - Where you write “difficult but brilliant” or “useless”
  • Opt-in for Updates (Checkbox) - Can we spam them with hope?

Table 2: Engagements (The Stalker’s Dream Log)

Every interaction, every touchpoint, every time someone did anything. Like your browser history but for saving humanity.

What you track:

  • Engagement ID (Autonumber) - Because even conversations need ID numbers now
  • Personnel (Link to Personnel Roster) - Who did the thing
  • Type (Single Select) - What kind of thing they did:
    • Enlistment (joined the cause)
    • Donation (threw money at the problem)
    • Investment Inquiry (smelled profit)
    • Partnership Inquiry (wanted to look good)
    • Meeting (wasted time together)
    • Call (wasted time remotely)
    • Email (wasted time asynchronously)
  • Date (Date) - When the thing happened
  • Summary (Text) - What actually happened in human words
  • Amount (Currency) - How much money changed hands
  • Related Campaign (Link to Campaigns) - Which battle this helped
  • Follow-up Date (Date) - When to bother them again

Table 3: HR & Recruitment (Finding People Who Don’t Suck)

Managing the humans who run the machine that saves the humans.

The hiring pipeline:

  • Position ID (Autonumber) - Job number whatever
  • Position Title (Text) - Fancy name for “does stuff”
  • Status (Single Select) - Where in the process:
    • Open (please god someone apply)
    • Interviewing (pretending we have options)
    • Filled (found someone desperate enough)
    • On Hold (ran out of money)
  • Division (Link to Divisions) - Which department gets the fresh meat
  • Applicants (Link to Personnel Roster) - Poor souls who applied
  • Job Description (Long Text) - Lies about how fun this job is
  • Onboarding Docs (Attachments) - PDFs nobody reads

SECTION 2: G-2 & G-3 (Operations & Intelligence)

How to Track What Everyone’s Doing and Who They’re Doing It With

Table 4: Organizations (The Other Players in This Game)

Every fund, company, nonprofit, and three-letter agency you deal with.

The institutional roster:

  • Organization Name (Text) - What they call themselves
  • Type (Single Select) - What they actually are:
    • VC Fund (vultures with spreadsheets)
    • Family Office (rich people’s money managers)
    • Nonprofit (tax-avoidance vehicles)
    • Research Institution (where hope goes to get peer-reviewed to death)
    • Government (the competition)
    • For-Profit (at least they’re honest)
  • Status (Single Select) - Friend or foe:
    • Ally (on our side, for now)
    • Neutral (sitting on the fence)
    • Adversary (actively making things worse)
  • Website (URL) - Their propaganda page
  • Contacts (Link to Personnel Roster) - Humans we can manipulate there
  • Mission Statement (Long Text) - What they pretend to care about

Table 5: Divisions (Your Internal Departments)

The organizational structure that makes this chaos manageable.

Your command structure:

  • Division Name (Text) - G-1 Personnel, G-4 Treasury, etc.
  • Mandate (Long Text) - What they’re supposed to accomplish
  • Lead (Link to Personnel Roster) - Who to blame when it fails
  • Personnel (Link to Personnel Roster) - The poor bastards doing the work
  • Projects (Link to Projects & Tasks) - What they claim to be working on

Table 6: Projects & Tasks (The Actual Work)

Where you track who’s doing what and why they’re behind schedule.

Project management for revolutionaries:

  • Task ID (Autonumber) - Task #4,847,293
  • Task Name (Text) - What needs doing
  • Status (Single Select) - Lies about progress:
    • To Do (hasn’t been started)
    • In Progress (someone opened the file once)
    • In Review (arguing about fonts)
    • Done (close enough)
  • Project (Link to same table) - Parent project this rolls up to
  • Assignee (Link to Personnel Roster) - Today’s victim
  • Division (Link to Divisions) - Which department owns this mess
  • Due Date (Date) - The fiction we tell ourselves
  • Priority (Single Select) - How panicked should we be:
    • Critical (hair on fire)
    • High (mild panic)
    • Medium (worry tomorrow)
    • Low (probably unnecessary)
  • Related Campaign (Link to Campaigns) - Which war effort this serves
  • Description (Long Text) - War and Peace about a simple task
  • Attachments (Attachments) - Files nobody will open

SECTION 3: G-4 & G-5 (Strategy & Logistics)

How to Track Money Without Becoming the IRS

Table 7: Treasury (Financials) (Where the Money Goes to Die)

Every penny tracked, because transparency is the only antidote to corruption.

The money trail:

  • Transaction ID (Autonumber) - Receipt #999,999
  • Date (Date) - When money moved
  • Type (Single Select) - Which direction:
    • Inflow (money coming in, rare)
    • Outflow (money leaving, constant)
  • Category (Single Select) - What excuse we used:
    • VICTORY Bond (investment from optimists)
    • Donation (charity from pessimists)
    • Grant (government cheese)
    • Salary (keeping humans alive)
    • Operations (keeping lights on)
    • Marketing (propaganda budget)
  • Source/Destination (Links) - Who gave/took the money
  • Amount (Currency) - How much damage
  • Purpose (Text) - The official excuse
  • Related Engagement (Link) - Which interaction caused this

Table 8: Campaigns (The Grand Strategies)

Your major initiatives, the big battles in the war.

Strategic initiative tracking:

  • Campaign Name (Text) - Like “Global Referendum - Phase 1” or “Operation: Make Pharma Cry”
  • Status (Single Select) - How it’s going:
    • Planning (still arguing)
    • Active (actually happening)
    • Completed (we won)
    • On Hold (ran out of money/hope)
  • Objective (Long Text) - What victory looks like
  • Lead (Link to Personnel Roster) - The general of this battle
  • Key Personnel (Link to Personnel Roster) - The soldiers
  • Related Projects (Link to Projects & Tasks) - The actual work
  • Budget (Currency) - How much we’re burning

SECTION 4: G-6 (Signal & Communications)

How to Run Propaganda Without Becoming Goebbels

Table 9: Communiqués (Your Propaganda Machine)

Every message you blast at the world.

Message management:

  • Message ID (Autonumber) - Propaganda piece #420,069
  • Title (Text) - Clickbait headline
  • Channel (Single Select) - How we’re bothering people:
    • Email (inbox assault)
    • Social Media (algorithm manipulation)
    • Press Release (journalistic fiction)
    • Blog Post (long-form delusion)
  • Status (Single Select) - Deployment status:
    • Draft (still lying to ourselves)
    • Scheduled (the lie has a date)
    • Sent (the lie is live)
  • Send Date (Date) - When we pulled the trigger
  • Target Audience (Links) - Who we’re manipulating
  • Content (Long Text) - The actual propaganda
  • Related Asset (Link to Media Assets) - Pretty pictures attached

Table 10: Media Assets (The Propaganda Library)

Your collection of images, videos, and documents that make people feel things.

Creative arsenal:

  • Asset ID (Autonumber) - Meme #80,085
  • Asset Name (Text) - “Crying_Child_With_Cancer.jpg”
  • Type (Single Select) - Format of manipulation:
    • Image (worth 1,000 lies)
    • Video (worth 1,000,000 lies)
    • Document (nobody reads these)
    • Audio (podcast probably)
  • File (Attachments) - The actual content
  • Related Campaign (Link to Campaigns) - Which battle needs this
  • Usage Notes (Long Text) - “Makes people cry, use sparingly”

SECTION 5: MISSION COMMAND (The Money Makers)

How to Track the Core Components of Victory

Table 12: Global Referendum (The Democratic Facade)

Managing the global petition to hit that magic 3.5% tipping point.

Democracy theater:

  • Vote ID (Autonumber) - Vote #8,000,000,001
  • Voter (Link to Personnel Roster) - The optimist
  • Country (Single Select) - Where they’re disappointed by government
  • Date Voted (Date) - When they chose hope
  • Verification Status (Single Select) - How real they are:
    • Verified (actual human)
    • Unverified (probably human)
    • Pending (investigating humanity)
  • Referral Source (Link) - Who dragged them in
  • Reward Tier (Single Select) - What bribe level they get
  • Related Campaign (Link) - Which push converted them

Table 13: Treaty Status (The Political Battlefield)

Tracking which countries have signed on to stop being idiots.

Diplomatic scorecard:

  • Country (Text) - Nation-state name
  • Status (Single Select) - Where they’re at:
    • Not Approached (haven’t bothered yet)
    • In Discussion (pretending to care)
    • Lobbying Active (bribing in progress)
    • Signed (agreed in principle)
    • Ratified (actually did it)
    • Rejected (chose death)
  • Lead Lobbyist (Link) - Our inside person
  • Key Contacts (Link) - People with power
  • Lobbying Firm (Link) - Professional bribers we hired
  • Lobbying Budget (Currency) - Cost of democracy
  • Next Action Date (Date) - When to apply more pressure
  • Notes (Long Text) - “Senator owns defense contractor stock”
  • Related Campaign (Link) - Which strategy we’re using

How to Actually Build This Thing

Step-by-Step Instructions for Database Revolution

  1. Create a free Airtable account (they don’t need your firstborn yet)
  2. Build the base structure in this exact order:
    • Personnel Roster first (everything links here)
    • Organizations next (external entities)
    • Divisions (internal structure)
    • Then everything else in the order listed above
  3. Set up the linked relationships (this is where it gets complex)
  4. Import any existing data (probably from some nightmare spreadsheet)
  5. Test with dummy data first (break it before it matters)
  6. Train your team (good luck with that)
  7. Launch and pray (the universal project management methodology)

The Privacy Paradox

How to Track Everything While Respecting Privacy (Supposedly)

  • Medical data: Encrypted, separate system (HIPAA is watching)
  • Financial data: Visible enough to prevent corruption, hidden enough to prevent theft
  • Personal data: GDPR compliant (whatever that means this week)
  • Voting data: Anonymous but verifiable (blockchain magic)
  • The rule: Track actions, not thoughts (we’re not Facebook… yet)

The Result

You’ve built a command center that would make the Pentagon jealous, except instead of coordinating death, you’re coordinating life. Every person, every dollar, every decision—all transparent, all tracked, all aimed at the singular goal of making death optional.

This is how you run a revolution in the age of spreadsheets. Not with generals and bunkers, but with Airtable and radical transparency. The military-industrial complex has one major weakness: they never expected their own organizational tools to be used against them.

Now stop reading and start building. Death isn’t going to cure itself.