The Holding™

When a civilization outlaws initiative, survival reverts to contraband. THE HOLDING™ tracks a former compliance analyst turned unlicensed humanitarian as he reroutes a risk-averse global bureaucracy that lets infrastructure fail faster than approvals clear, converting procedural backlog into the doomsday device.

This IP reframes bureaucracy as a high-voltage thriller engine, exposing how risk-elimination culture quietly dismantles the basic mechanics of survival. It codifies “the bomb is a backlog” as a repeatable narrative mechanic that scales across infrastructure, food, medicine, and data, while synchronizing character guilt with systemic entropy for emotionally dense, platform-agnostic stories. It operationalizes a franchise spine—series, anthology, and feature—that maps the catastrophe of consent from one rogue actor to a fully decentralized revolt against permission itself.