The observatory’s evidence infrastructure
A governed path from changing behaviour to reviewable observation.
The FASO System is not FASO itself. It is the technical and human-review instrument through which the planned organisation would observe, preserve, replay, analyse, place and explain evidence.
The system journey
Eight governed movements from subject identity to external verification.
Technical names are retained for continuity with the established FASO architecture. The public explanation describes their role without disclosing protected implementation.
Observed / Discovered Model
Observed or discovered system
Establish the system, version, route and observation authority that define the subject of the record.
ODE / ODR · OMI-ED · VIEP
Evidence intake and identity
Receive evidence under governed conditions, preserve its identity and prevent unrecorded transformation.
Governed routing
Evidence placement
Place authorised evidence through the applicable governed pathway while retaining authority, identity and time order.
bounded state record / PVSE
State-space analysis
Form and position supported results within bounded state record while retaining the path from evidence to placement.
KB / CDKR · Replay Engine
Knowledge and replay
Retain the applicable knowledge and reconstruct earlier handling under the same authorised conditions.
Gate Index · Certainty Control · Audit Ledger
Gate, certainty and audit
Apply governed gates, express warranted certainty and preserve a reviewable ledger of the decision path.
Human review
Human review and explanation
Require people to examine what the system found, what it did not establish and whether publication is justified.
PB · External Verification
Publication and external verification
Release only safe, supported and bounded material, then enable appropriate external challenge.
Built now
Version 1 and the complete end-to-end Test Rig.
The architecture exists as integrated working software. The Test Rig can exercise authorised evidence handling, multi-system comparison, retained outcomes and bounded state interpretation.
Still required
Independent evidence and operational integration.
The system has not been independently validated against an external partner’s blinded evidence and is not connected to live frontier-developer operations.
Technology and people
The system forms evidence. People remain responsible for judgement and publication.
FASO is not designed as an autonomous authority. Human review, independent challenge and organisational governance are load-bearing parts of the proposed system.
Technology preserves discipline
Identity, routing, sequence, repeatability, state interpretation, audit and controlled presentation.
Human reviewers interpret
Context, significance, ambiguity, limitations, alternatives and the need for corrective or further work.
Governance controls authority
What may enter, what may be concluded, what may be published and who may challenge it.
Evidence of the system
See what has been built and how it is being tested.
The evidence and validation pages separate build proof, run proof and future independent proof.