Regulated industries
Conformity declarations, management assertions and authorizations to operate all rest, in the end, on records the signer produced about the signer.
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The problem
Every serious regulatory regime now ends in a signature, and the instruments are set out on the obligations page. This page is about the party who receives one. A regulator, an accrediting official, a supervisor, a board: each is handed a signed statement and asked to rely on it, and each is expected to test it rather than take the signer’s word.
Today, in most organizations, what stands behind the signature is a body of evidence the organization assembled about its own conduct, from its own systems, in its own formats, ahead of a deadline. The signer is asked to certify a thing that only the signer can see, and the recipient is asked to rely on a thing that only the signer can check.
No one jurisdiction failed. The default is the same everywhere, and it held while the signer could vouch for the people who made the decisions. When systems make the decisions, the signer is vouching for a record produced by the thing being vouched for.
We do not replace the attestation. We put proof under it.
Where the signature is asked for
The recipient of an attestation wants to check it without asking the signer. If checking requires the signer, it is the signer’s word twice.
Where it bites first
Making the evidence a by-product of operation instead of a project with a due date.
Giving the recipient of an attestation a way to check it without the signer's cooperation.
Demonstrating that automated decisions stayed inside the authority the organization granted.
Other sectors
The demonstration
An agent proposes, the decision is adjudicated against authority, and anyone you authorize can verify it afterward. Tell us which of the six is costing you, and that is the one we will build.
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We are not asking you to trust us. We are asking you to let us prove it.