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+# Operational Use in PI and Legal Practice
+
+The Witness Dyad Framework is designed for practical integration into the workflows of private investigators, attorneys, custody evaluators, and court-appointed professionals. By analyzing linguistic patterns and narrative distortions, this methodology can augment legal strategy without clinical overreach.
+
+---
+
+## Tactical Applications
+
+### 🧾 Witness Preparation
+- Anticipate manipulative framing by opposing parties.
+- Train witnesses to identify DARVO triggers and avoid linguistic traps.
+- Reinforce coherence in testimony by anchoring Thoughtprint structures.
+
+### 📄 Affidavit and Deposition Analysis
+- Detect recursive distortions in written statements.
+- Identify performative calmness, discrediting tone, and moral inversions.
+- Highlight rhetorical inconsistencies across documents and timeframes.
+
+### ⚖️ Custody Hearing Framing
+- Provide judges with clarity on the *patterned intent* behind “composed” behavior.
+- Use linguistic evidence to advocate for psychological safety of minors.
+- Frame victim testimony within a recognizable pattern map.
+
+### 🤝 Mediation Leverage
+- Inform mediators of subtle manipulations that shape negotiation dynamics.
+- Re-establish balanced ground when the abuser controls tone and perception.
+- Guide narrative framing toward child-centered and truth-anchored outcomes.
+
+---
+
+## Ethical Safeguards
+
+- This methodology is **non-clinical** and **non-diagnostic**: it avoids assigning psychological labels, and instead focuses on **language patterns and recursive coherence**.
+- It should **never** be used as a substitute for professional mental health evaluation where abuse is suspected.
+- Reports and analyses must be **transparent, reproducible, and bias-conscious**, and always offered in service of truth—not as a rhetorical weapon.
+
+---
+
+By empowering legal professionals and investigators with *pattern recognition tools*, we arm them against subtle psychological tactics that often go undetected in courtrooms. This work reclaims integrity, not through confrontation, but through **clarity of structure**.
+
+When truth is contested, **coherence becomes evidence.**