Evidence Record

Evidence Bundles: Deterministic Records for Legacy Decisions

Evidence bundles are immutable, replayable archives. They bind findings, governance context, decisions, and hashes into a single record that can be cited in board memos, audits, and RFPs.

What an evidence bundle contains

An evidence bundle captures findings, provability boundaries, governance declarations, decisions, cryptographic hashes, and integrity manifests. It is built entirely from provided artifacts—no external calls, no hidden inputs.

Why bundles matter

Bundles make claims replayable. Any party can verify the hashes, read the non-claims, and reproduce the same outputs with the same inputs. This is the foundation for defensible GO/NO-GO decisions.

Governance consequence

Without a bundle, evidence is unverifiable and decisions are not defensible. With a bundle, authority statements are bound to the exact findings and context used to issue them.

Authority boundary statement

Where provability terminates, authority terminates.

Evidence and verification

  • Bundles include MANIFEST.json, integrity hashes, DECISION.json, and recorded context.
  • Hash chains make tampering or omission detectable.
  • Replay with the same inputs yields identical bundles and identical findings.

Verified authority record

View a sample bundle in PDF form: Download authority record (PDF)

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