Divergence Detection
Threshold exceeded • Governance triggered
Tamper-evident audit infrastructure for AI governance—complete traceability from decision to action, built for regulatory compliance and safety certification.
The Provenance Ledger is a tamper-evident data structure that records governance events throughout the AI governance pipeline. It provides complete traceability of governance operations, enabling post-hoc audit, regulatory compliance verification, and safety case documentation.
Unlike passive logging systems that merely record events after they occur, the Provenance Ledger is architecturally integrated with the governance pipeline. Every refinement iteration, constraint validation, compliance verification, and operational transition is captured in an immutable record.
The ledger's integrity protection ensures that governance history cannot be modified after the fact—providing the evidentiary foundation required for safety certification and regulatory audit.
Cryptographically-chained governance events
The Provenance Ledger delivers comprehensive audit capabilities designed for safety-critical and regulated environments.
Governance events are recorded in a structure where any modification to historical entries is cryptographically detectable, ensuring the integrity of the audit trail.
Every step of the governance process is captured—from initial detection through refinement iterations to final output release—enabling full reconstruction of decision pathways.
Once recorded, governance events cannot be modified or deleted. The append-only architecture ensures historical accuracy for compliance and forensic requirements.
The ledger provides evidence that specific outputs were produced through verified constraint enforcement processes—not just that infrastructure was configured correctly.
Built-in verification capabilities enable validation of ledger integrity on-demand, during audit, at system startup, or continuously in high-assurance deployments.
Events are recorded with timestamps and sequence numbers providing total ordering, enabling precise reconstruction of event sequences for forensic analysis.
The Provenance Ledger captures comprehensive records of governance operations throughout the AI governance pipeline.
Iteration counts, constraint-loss values at each cycle, and termination conditions for the governance refinement process.
Lists of constraints evaluated, validation results for each, and cumulative compliance metrics throughout processing.
Token generation events including timestamps, lineage bindings, verification status, and cryptographic attestations.
Operational tier changes including source tier, destination tier, transition triggers, and timestamps.
Detection events with timestamps enabling post-hoc analysis of system monitoring and response patterns.
Verification failures, timeout events, and error conditions with diagnostic context for troubleshooting and safety analysis.
The Provenance Ledger is architecturally integrated with the governance pipeline, not bolted on as an afterthought.
The Provenance Ledger integrates with each stage of the governance pipeline. Upon each iteration of the governed convergence loop, iteration and reconciliation records are automatically appended. Upon constraint validation, results are captured. Upon compliance token generation, all token components and verification status are recorded.
This comprehensive recording ensures that the complete governance history is preserved in a tamper-evident format suitable for regulatory audit, safety certification, and forensic analysis. The ledger provides evidence not merely that a system was configured correctly, but that its decision-making process followed verified procedures.
The distinction between platform state attestation and governance process proof is critical: platform attestation can verify that a system booted with approved firmware; it cannot attest that a particular AI output was refined through a bounded governance process. The Provenance Ledger provides this governance process proof.
Full technical details will be available upon patent publication.
The Provenance Ledger addresses audit requirements across safety-critical and regulated industries.
Supports IEC 61508, ISO 26262, and similar standards requiring evidence that decision-making followed verified procedures.
Enables 21 CFR Part 820 compliance with complete traceability of diagnostic reasoning for medical AI systems.
SOC 2 compliance enabled through tamper-evident audit trails satisfying regulatory record-keeping requirements.
Immutable audit trails for trading systems and risk assessment meeting regulatory compliance requirements.
Complete event reconstruction capabilities for incident investigation and root cause analysis.
Enables independent verification by auditors and certification bodies without requiring system access.
The Provenance Ledger enables trustworthy AI deployment where audit and accountability are essential.
Safety case documentation for vehicles and robotics requiring certified AI behaviour evidence.
Diagnostic reasoning traceability for clinical decision support and medical device certification.
Auditable AI decision-making for algorithmic trading and risk assessment platforms.
Content filtering audit trails and compliance review records for corporate AI deployments.
Complete operational accountability for mission-critical AI with security clearance requirements.
Process safety documentation for AI-assisted manufacturing and infrastructure management.
Learn how the Provenance Ledger can provide the evidentiary foundation for your AI governance and compliance requirements.