Understand the architecture. Choose the relevant demonstration.
A compact guide to Trust Artifact Architecture: evidence, human review, inspectable records and their separate demonstrations. Miami pilot and packet services remain proposed.
Use this guide to choose your next step
This companion to the Executive Brief explains the lab’s approach and links each architectural responsibility to a bounded example. It does not join separate prototypes into one runtime.
Start with the short explanation of the architecture and its three responsibilities.
Choose a question and open its demonstration. Read the limit alongside each link; external examples open in a new tab.
Copy the page link to share this guide. It contains no private case, simulation state or recorded approval.
The lab explores how communities and businesses can turn ideas into inspectable workflows: keep the evidence, make decision authority explicit, and carry the resulting context into the next handoff. This page is a short map of the demonstrations. Each link says what it shows and what it does not establish.
Three responsibilities, one proposed framework
TAE / DEFINE. Gives a request a clear shape and states the rule and the human decision boundary that apply to it.
Hivewire / GROUND. Keeps evidence, corrections and source relationships attached to the work so a reviewer can see where information came from.
Proof Layer / PROVE. Produces a record another participant can inspect, and states narrowly what that record does and does not show.
DEFINE: Shape the request. → GROUND: Attach the evidence. → GOVERN: Apply an explicit rule. → DECIDE: Leave the decision to an accountable person. → PROVE: Make the record inspectable. → RECONCILE: Keep the state honest across handoffs.
A proposed pattern for dividing responsibility, not an industry standard, certification or integrated deployment. The adapter prepares requests and carries results; TAE/Guardian owns the policy verdict. A human approval, a separate execution grant and a verification result do not substitute for one another.
These are architectural roles, not connected services. The separate Engine reference source includes policy, review, scoped authority, receipt and verification code; this showcase does not call those services. Its R1 synthetic integration remains proposed: as documented on October 16, 2026, owners are unassigned, ten gates are open and 36 integration tests are not run.
RECONCILE · an illustrative pending gate and the next-stage responsibility.
Boundary: Proposed coordination only. Preserve input records and link later results separately; receiving a packet is not substantive acceptance or execution permission.
A proposed distributed-node application for supply chains, logistics and commerce. Boundary: Proposed concept. No live mesh, network identity or transactions.
Source-backed food-distribution and changing-conditions simulations, plus governance scenarios. Boundary: Synthetic scenarios and simulated events. No real deliveries or approvals.
An optional in-site community-food demonstration of staged handoffs and record checks. Boundary: Not the same case or runtime as the external Proof Pilot synthetic-claim prototype.
Use Proof Pilot and the bounded showcase exercises to explain evidence, review, authority and handoffs. Record comprehension gaps, friction and unresolved dependencies before choosing a field pilot.
2 · Apply the lab method
Develop one scoped Miami civic pilot alongside an idea-to-prototype-packet service for business owners. Candidate projects include community meal distribution, maintenance handoffs and small-business intake coordination. A packet would hold the problem, participants, workflow, evidence and assumptions, demonstration, decision boundaries, implementation steps and measures of success.
Both stages are proposed. The Miami pilot and the packet service are not established offerings or commitments, and no affiliation, funding or endorsement is implied.
Bring one recurring coordination problem, its current handoff, an accountable owner and an observable success measure. A proposed first engagement would aim to produce a scoped packet for review, so an accountable person can decide whether a field pilot is justified.
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Questions before you continue
How is this different from the Executive Brief?
The Executive Brief explains the thesis through the vendor-payment fixture. This companion is a broader lab overview and demonstration link guide, including proposed community applications.
No. The vendor-payment fixture, Hivewire recording, separate Proof Pilot synthetic claim prototype and logistics/commerce simulations are distinct examples. Navigation does not transfer a case or decision between them.
Do verification checks approve a claim or payment?
No. Record checks do not establish source truth, human decision authority, approval or payment. Proposed pilots and services are not established offerings.