Decision Provenance Standard™
Audit-ready provenance for decisions made by humans and AI together — a record you can find in thirty seconds and trust, with a human signature on every consequential decision.
- The records are input, not evidence.
- It informs regulatory frameworks without satisfying them.
- Conformance is self-declared; no body certifies it.
- It is not legal advice and not a regulatory substitute.
The one idea
As AI authors more of the work, “how was this decided, and who is accountable?” gets harder to answer. The Standard turns that question into a structured record — through four fixed building blocks that compose into audit-ready decision provenance.
The Charter
For a recurring decision class, it names what it governs, who owns it, the mode it runs in, where its records live, and what reopens it.
Two Modes
Mode 1 (human-authored, AI-checking) and Mode 2 (AI-authored, human-reviewing). Every record declares its mode; AI-authored content carries an Article 50 disclosure.
Human signature & seal
A record becomes affirmed only when a named human signs — then it is sealed and tamper-evident. There is no passive promotion.
Conformance levels
Three cumulative, self-declared levels: Charter-Conformant, Mode-Disambiguated, Continuously Auditable. No third party certifies them.
Read the Standard
The normative core plus four companions and the governance appendix. Each is a self-contained reading page with its own table of contents.
Learn
Plain-language ways in — before, or instead of, the normative text.
Compliance & frameworks
The Standard is the decision-provenance record that feeds your compliance work. It never replaces it.
Adopt
For implementers and the engineers who maintain the records.
Downloads
The same six documents as editable Word files and as PDFs (figures embedded). A complete release bundle (Markdown sources, Word, and PDF) is below; the JSON schemas and reference implementation follow with the substrate publication.
Download the full release bundle (.zip) — Markdown sources, Word, and PDF, with a manifest and SHA-256 checksums.
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