Research
Agents can propose software changes faster than a firm can reconstruct who allowed an exception. This program studies two institutions that answer different questions. Neither is a product, and neither has a confirmatory evaluation yet.
An enterprise already has norms: law and contract that nobody inside the firm may waive, and values of its own, such as speed, cost, quality, and care for customers, that differ from the firm next door. When the actor is a person, a lot of that norm is absorbed in review. An agent does not absorb it. It will do what the written instruction permits, at the volume of the pipeline.
The research question is institutional. Which acts may the enterprise ever allow, and for what reasons? Who has authority to grant an exception? Which decisions should bind the next case? The prototypes are instruments for asking those questions, not a control you can buy.
External · Digital Judiciary
Law, regulation, security policy, and contracts bind every agent. The program’s answer is a forum with written rules, precedent, a human bench, and a way to contest a holding.
Internal · Enterprise Conscience
Some rules are not the same kind of rule as others. A value that may bend for a recorded reason is not a floor that no officer may trade. The gate’s job is to tell those apart before the act.
A rule that can never be traded is a different kind of rule, not a heavier weight. That sentence is the program’s, from the October 2026 deck.
| Question | Enterprise Conscience · internal | Digital Judiciary · external |
|---|---|---|
| Owned by | The enterprise | An adjudicator with a human-accountable bench |
| Asks | How far may the agent depart from a value? | What is the agent forbidden or required to do? |
| Acts | Before every act, at the gate | When a case is escalated or contested |
| Holds | Tiered canon, token registry, examen log | Written constitution, precedent store |
| Decides | T2 and T3 trade-offs; checks T1 tokens | T0 and T1 cases, emergencies, conflicts, doubt |
| Produces | Allow, block, or hold; disclosures | Holdings that return as rules in the canon |
The gate is described as sitting outside the model. Self-reports reach the judiciary only in aggregate. Scroll sideways on a narrow screen; the first column stays put.