The Trantiate Role Model
Trantiate defines a simple but powerful role model — Maker, Checker, Seer, Buyer — that separates building, validating, communicating, and accepting transformation work. This keeps responsibility clear, avoids conflicts of interest, and makes outcomes easier to govern and trust.
Why Roles Matter
In most transformation programs, the same people are asked to build, approve, report, and defend the work. That creates blurred accountability, governance gaps, and stress.
The Trantiate role model solves this by assigning distinct responsibilities to four archetypal roles. Each role sees the transformation from a different angle, and together they create a balanced operating model that is easier to scale, audit, and automate.
Makers make, Checkers check, Seers see and communicate, Buyers decide to accept or challenge outcomes. When these roles are explicit, transformation conversations become clearer and less personal — focused on work and evidence, not personalities.
The Four Roles
Each role brings a distinct perspective and set of responsibilities into the TRANT lifecycle.
Makers are the builders and implementers. They design, engineer, configure, and execute the changes needed to move from current state to Target Future State. Their focus is on quality, feasibility, and technical delivery.
Checkers validate the work. They test, challenge, and verify that what the Maker has produced behaves as intended, meets requirements, and satisfies defined controls and acceptance criteria.
Seers provide situational awareness. They watch the whole transformation, connect dots across Trants, and communicate progress, risk, and impact to stakeholders in a clear, honest, and timely way.
Buyers represent the consuming side of the change — business owners, operations, risk, customers, or regulators. They decide whether to accept, defer, or reject outcomes, based on evidence and readiness.
How Roles Interact During a Trant
The four roles are not rigid job titles. They are responsibilities that must be present in every Trant, even if one person sometimes wears more than one hat.
As a Trant moves through TARGET, REVIEW, ANALYZE, NAVIGATE, and TRANSFORM, Makers, Checkers, Seers, and Buyers rotate in and out of focus. Makers and Checkers are most visible during REVIEW and TRANSFORM; Seers and Buyers become critical around NAVIGATE and at the point of acceptance.
• A Maker proposes a solution; a Checker validates it.
• A Seer reports on trade-offs and risks in plain language.
• A Buyer decides whether the outcome can be accepted, piloted, or must be revised.
• KEA and Trantiator capture these interactions as evidence.
Role Responsibilities at a Glance
In practice, each role has a distinct “center of gravity” in the transformation.
• Implement changes and configurations
• Align design and build with Target Future State
• Provide technical detail to KEA and Checkers
• Respond to defects, gaps, and clarifications
• Define and execute validation approaches
• Confirm functional and non-functional requirements
• Challenge assumptions and edge cases
• Provide structured evidence into TCAP
• Maintain an integrated view of the Trant
• Run Daily Pulse and Weekly Connect style interactions
• Surface risks early and clearly
• Translate technical progress into business language
• Clarify what “acceptable” looks like
• Evaluate readiness and risk appetite
• Accept or challenge outcomes based on evidence
• Sponsor adoption and operational embedding
Roles + TRANT + Trantiator
Trantiate is designed so that the Trantiator Agentic AI can support each role without replacing their judgment. Automation makes their work lighter and more informed, but keeps accountability human.
Makers receive structured work orders and impact views. Checkers receive suggested test scope, gaps, and risk-based priorities. Seers receive narratives, dashboards, and communication drafts. Buyers receive synthesized evidence drawn from TCAP and KEA that supports clear decisions.
Trantiator does the orchestration, correlation, and summarization; the role model keeps final decisions and ethics in human hands. This balance is critical for regulated industries and high-risk transformations.
Putting the Role Model to Work
Many organizations already have equivalents of Makers, Checkers, Seers, and Buyers — they are just not named or coordinated this way. Trantiate gives you a language and structure to formalize what good programs do intuitively.
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