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.
The public explanation describes the role of each movement without disclosing protected implementation.
Subject identity
Observed or discovered system
Establish the system, version, route and observation authority that define the subject of the record.
Controlled evidence intake
Evidence intake and identity
Receive evidence under governed conditions, preserve its identity and prevent unrecorded transformation.
Governed analytical routing
Model recognition and controlled analysis
Identify the applicable system type and apply the accepted analytical path without losing evidence identity or authority.
Evidence-supported state placement
State-space analysis
Form and position supported results while retaining the reviewable path from evidence to placement.
Knowledge continuity and governed replay
Knowledge and replay
Retain the applicable knowledge and reconstruct earlier handling under the same authorised conditions.
Decision gates and audit
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.
Bounded publication and external challenge
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 the accepted system end to end, preserve complete evidence and verify that governed outcomes remain reproducible and reviewable.
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, authority, sequence, repeatability, 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.