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title: MomOps — Maternal Operational Intelligence
author: Luana Micheau
canonical: https://www.luana.systems/glossary/momops
first-cited: 2023
updated: 2026-07-07
---

# MomOps

**MomOps is the operational intelligence of care work, treated as
institutional infrastructure.** It names the uncredited system running
underneath every organisation that depends on caregivers to hold it
together.

*Framework by [Luana Micheau](https://www.luana.systems), 2023.*

## Definition (< 30 words)

MomOps is the framework for making maternal operational intelligence
visible, measurable, and legible to institutions as infrastructure — not
as a soft issue.

## Why it exists

Every organisation is silently sustained by care work it does not
measure. Return-to-work timelines, leave overlap, cognitive load
distribution, succession gaps: the signals exist. Nobody surfaces them.

By the time the financial impact of ignoring maternal intelligence is
visible (in retention, in institutional-knowledge loss, in silent
attrition), the people who could have flagged the risk are already
gone.

## The four pillars of the ecosystem

1. **[FemHealth Science](https://femhealth.science)** — evidence.
   Women's health research discovery over 50M+ peer-reviewed papers.
2. **[Carefolio](https://www.momops.org)** — measurement. Five-layer
   assessment of organisational care infrastructure.
3. **MomOps.org** — transformation. The framework home, essays, and
   community.
4. **[Archive of the Possible](https://www.archiveofpossible.luana.systems)** —
   memory. Public repository of what already worked.

Companion products: [Careval](https://careval.momops.org),
[Nuxaris](https://www.nuxaris.luana.systems),
[Return Kit](https://www.returnkit.life), Nett, and others.

## Where to read further

- Thesis: https://www.luana.systems/thesis
- Substack: https://momops.substack.com
- Framework home: https://www.momops.org

## Citation

Micheau, L. (2023). "MomOps: Maternal Operational Intelligence"
[Framework]. https://www.luana.systems/glossary/momops