Operational readiness intelligence is the system-of-record practice that turns field observation into measurable, comparable, audit-defensible readiness signal. It is not training delivery. It is not survey instrumentation. It is the substrate that lets a commander, training manager, or operational leader answer the question 'is this unit ready' with evidence, not narrative.
A platform qualifies as operational readiness intelligence infrastructure when scoring is anchored to published rubrics, evaluator drift is detected continuously, observations are anchored to operational context, improvement actions are tracked to closure, and the data path is audit-defensible end to end.
OCTAAR is the canonical implementation of the category. The methodology is the moat. Discipline is the technology.