diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Revision history for eventuo11y
 
+## 0.3.0.0 -- 2022-10-03
+
+Add single-modifier exports from BackendModification
+
 ## 0.2.0.0 -- 2022-10-03
 
 Relax text upper and lower bounds
diff --git a/eventuo11y.cabal b/eventuo11y.cabal
--- a/eventuo11y.cabal
+++ b/eventuo11y.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cabal-version:      3.0
 name:               eventuo11y
-version:            0.2.0.1
+version:            0.3.0.0
 synopsis:           An event-oriented observability library
 description:
   Instrument your Haskell codebase with wide, semantically meaningful events.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   See "Observe.Event.Backend" for documentation on writing an
   @EventBackend@.
 
-  See [Example.hs](https://github.com/shlevy/eventuo11y/tree/v0.2.0.1/Example.hs) for an example.
+  See [Example.hs](https://github.com/shlevy/eventuo11y/tree/v0.3.0.0/Example.hs) for an example.
 
   See [eventuo11y-batteries](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/eventuo11y-batteries) for miscellaneous
   framework-specific helpers.
@@ -59,15 +59,15 @@
 
   build-depends:
     , aeson          ^>=2.0.2.0
-    , base           >=4.14      && <4.17
-    , bytestring     >=0.10.12.0 && <0.12
-    , exceptions     ^>=0.10.4
+    , base           >=4.14    && <4.17
+    , bytestring     >=0.10    && <0.12
+    , exceptions     ^>=0.10
     , primitive      ^>=0.7
-    , resourcet      ^>=1.2.4.3
-    , text           >=1.2       && <2.1
-    , time           >=1.9.3     && <1.12
-    , unliftio-core  ^>=0.2.0.1
-    , uuid           ^>=1.3.15
+    , resourcet      ^>=1.2
+    , text           >=1.2     && <2.1
+    , time           >=1.9     && <1.12
+    , unliftio-core  ^>=0.2
+    , uuid           ^>=1.3
 
   hs-source-dirs:   src
   default-language: Haskell2010
diff --git a/src/Observe/Event.hs b/src/Observe/Event.hs
--- a/src/Observe/Event.hs
+++ b/src/Observe/Event.hs
@@ -322,4 +322,4 @@
   -- | The parent event.
   Event m r s f ->
   EventBackend m r s
-subEventBackend Event {..} = modifyEventBackend (Cons (SetAncestor $ referenceImpl impl) Nil) backend
+subEventBackend Event {..} = modifyEventBackend (setAncestor $ referenceImpl impl) backend
diff --git a/src/Observe/Event/BackendModification.hs b/src/Observe/Event/BackendModification.hs
--- a/src/Observe/Event/BackendModification.hs
+++ b/src/Observe/Event/BackendModification.hs
@@ -37,11 +37,20 @@
 -- or @MonadBaseControl@ if we share a base monad, or if we implemented t'Observe.Event.EventBackend's in a separate base monad
 -- that appears in the type of our capabilities and ensure it's liftable to both our application monad and the
 -- capability's base instantiation.
-module Observe.Event.BackendModification where
+module Observe.Event.BackendModification
+  ( EventBackendModifier(..)
+  , EventBackendModifiers
+  , modifyEventBackend
+  , -- * Simple EventBackendModifiers
+    unmodified
+  , silence
+  , setAncestor
+  , setInitialCause
+  ) where
 
 import Control.Category
 import Observe.Event.Backend
-import Prelude hiding ((.))
+import Prelude hiding (id, (.))
 
 -- | Modify an t'Observe.Event.EventBackend', chaging its reference type from @r@ to @r'@
 data EventBackendModifier r r' where
@@ -123,3 +132,25 @@
     }
   where
     backend = modifyEventBackend rest backend'
+
+-- | A single-element 'EventBackendModifiers'
+singleton :: EventBackendModifier r r' -> EventBackendModifiers r r'
+singleton = flip Cons Nil
+
+-- | An 'EventBackendModifiers' that does nothing.
+unmodified :: EventBackendModifiers r r
+unmodified = id
+
+-- | An 'EventBackendModifiers' that silences events.
+silence :: EventBackendModifiers r ()
+silence = singleton Silence
+
+-- | An 'EventBackendModifiers' that marks every parentless event as the child
+-- of a known t'Observe.Event.Event'.
+setAncestor :: r -> EventBackendModifiers r r
+setAncestor = singleton . SetAncestor
+
+-- | An 'EventBackendModifiers' that marks every causeless event as proximately caused
+-- by a known t'Observe.Event.Event'.
+setInitialCause :: r -> EventBackendModifiers r r
+setInitialCause = singleton . SetInitialCause