Architecture

Five peer substrates. Each independently citable. Each governed under the same doctrine.

The structural claim

One pillar alone is not governed AI. Three are insufficient. The unified system requires all five. ARS-OMEGA without PEL produces enforced decisions that do not improve over time. PEL without RDL produces measured decisions whose evidence is unsigned. RDL without GDTK produces signed decisions that no neutral test can grade. GDTK without the Council produces a test that nobody is governed by. Each pillar is a substrate of a different class — enforcement, improvement, recording, testing, governance — and the moat is in the unified composition.

What runs today

Each pillar publishes a current verifier-state column on its dedicated page. Nothing on this site claims to be running unless an evidence artifact backs the claim, the artifact is independently reproducible, and a tree hash exists for the receipt registry to chain to.

To inspect maturity, status, and verifier output for any pillar, follow the link from the pillar grid above.

The Eleven-Layer Category Architecture

The five pillars are the substrate. The eleven layers are the publication structure: Definition · Protocol · Conformance · Registry · Policy Translation · Demonstration · Prior Art · Certification · Federation · Contestation · Model Compact. Each maps to a section of this site.

Tier 0 disclosure throughout. Implementation byte layouts, capability-token cryptographic constructions, attestation-derivation specifics, golden vectors, and source code are not exposed on public pages. Strategic counterparties under mutual NDA receive Tier 1 architectural summary; pilot-LOI counterparties receive Tier 2 implementation detail. See the disclosure governance.