Artifact to Finding Ladder
Documents, transcripts, reports, and other source artifacts enter a controlled review path. Claims do not become findings until the review state permits promotion.
Deterministic verification for governed AI workflows
DVS - Deterministic Verification Substrate
A verification layer for AI governance, compliance, and reliability review workflows. DVS records evidence state, review transitions, contradictions, promotions, audit events, and export boundaries before downstream artifacts are allowed to speak with certainty.
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Source Artifact
Input material with stable source identity.
02
Claim
Assertion extracted or entered for review.
03
Review Gate
Contradiction, supersession, and state checks.
04
Finding
Only promoted when support and state permit it.
05
Export Boundary
Output language constrained by review state.
For AI governance and compliance platforms
Move from review narratives to enforceable review state.
Governance platforms often capture policies, risks, approvals, and reports. DVS focuses on the machine boundary underneath those workflows: what source supports a claim, what contradiction blocks it, what review state allows promotion, and what the resulting export is permitted to say.
DVS is designed to support record-keeping and traceability concerns reflected in Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 for high-risk AI systems. It is not a legal compliance certification and does not replace counsel, governance review, or conformity assessment.
Architecture summary
Evidence state before propagation.
Contradiction and Supersession Checks
Known conflicts, stale source material, blocked propagation state, and superseded artifacts can stop downstream use.
Audit and Export Guard
State changes are recorded, and export language is constrained so the output does not overstate certainty.
Engagement lanes
Two ways to evaluate the work.
Technology Evaluation
A constrained technical review of DVS against one workflow. The recommended first step is a proof-of-value pass using non-sensitive or synthetic materials, followed by an integration discussion only if the boundary is useful.
- Scoped to one workflow or review surface.
- Shows claim state, contradiction handling, audit events, and export control.
- No production deployment claim or platform lock-in.
Reliability Review Service
A fixed-scope document review service. You provide a bounded set of materials; the output is a source-attributed reliability packet separating supported assertions, weak claims, contradictions, unresolved gaps, and export-safe findings.
- Designed for document-heavy matters.
- Useful before memos, reports, expert packets, regulator responses, or internal reviews.
- Technology stays behind the deliverable.
Reliability packet output
Make the contradiction visible before the conclusion hardens.
A Reliability Review packet is designed to show what each material assertion depends on: source support, contradiction state, review state, and permitted downstream language.
Claim
Vendor notice date was April 8.
Contradiction
Email thread states April 11; invoice metadata states April 8.
Export-safe finding
Notice date is disputed across reviewed sources.
Academic review track
Vicis Cycle research.
A separate de-identified research track maintains a longitudinal case model of technology-mediated conflict tracking, dyadic inversion, and AI-mediated communication structuring.
Sanitized briefs are available for academic review. Raw exports, identifying details, and private records are not sent in first contact.
Contact
Luis Alberto Montoya
Creator of DVS. Building under the UnFragged project name.
luis@unfragged.com
Victorville, California
Patent pending: USPTO Application 64/006,639, filed March 2026