Identity
Human, service, and agent principals.
Evidence ceiling E3Proof boundary
Platform
Govern the path from intent to verified reality.
Separate intelligence from authority, bind execution to policy, reconcile authoritative state, and produce evidence another party can challenge.
APEX and the control spine
Intelligence proposes. Authority permits. Evidence establishes.
APEX feeds bounded proposals into the preserved seven-plane control spine. It does not combine intelligence, authority, execution and verification into one decision.
- 01APEX proposes / investigates
- 02Authority permits
- 03Execution acts
- 04External reality changes
- 05Evidence observes
- 06Finality Core verifies
- 07Finality Control governs consequence
Control spine
No acknowledgement becomes closure by itself.
Every plane has a distinct owner, trust boundary, and evidence responsibility.
Authority is not execution.Execution is not finality.Finality requires proof of the ending.
- 01Authority
- 02Action
- 03Execution
- 04Authoritative State
- 05Reconciliation
- 06Receipt
- 07Reopen if Reality Changes
Seven-plane control model
A reported action is not a proven ending.
Finality exists only when authorized action, execution evidence, authoritative reality, and reopen rules agree.
- 01Authority planeControl owner · mandate issuer
Identity, delegation, purpose, limits, expiry, and revocation.
- 02Decision planeControl owner · policy authority
Versioned rules determine whether the proposed consequence is permitted.
- 03Execution planeControl owner · accountable operator
Only bounded adapters may attempt an authorized state transition.
- 04Authoritative-state planeControl owner · system of record
Reality is read from the source empowered to establish the outcome.
- 05Reconciliation planeControl owner · control function
Claims, receipts, and authoritative state are compared; contradictions stay open.
- 06Evidence planeControl owner · evidence custodian
A portable Receipt binds lineage, classifications, hashes, and obligations.
- 07Reopen loopControl owner · designated authority
New reality, revocation, correction, or contradiction supersedes prior closure.
Finality reconciled authoritative endingNot finality request, approval, or acknowledgement aloneTrust boundary external systems and assessorsEvidence state current public ceiling E3
Shared primitives
The same controls across every business.
Specialization without fragmenting identity, authority, policy, execution, state, evidence, or reopen semantics.
Mandates
Purpose, scope, limits, validity, and revocation.
Policies
Versioned organizational constraints.
Receipts
Outputs linked to the governing decision.
Verification
Digest, provenance, state, and rule checks.
Reopen
Supersede closure when governing reality changes.