GOVERNANCE MOAT

Infrastructure scales with capital. Governance scales with constitutional rigor. They are not the same.

Structural Moat

What Cannot Be Bought

253+
Sealed Directives
53
Patent Applications
77/77
Tests Passing
27/27
Sovereign Checks

Every number above is derived from live runtime. Clone the repository. Run the tools. Verify independently. Capital can buy engineering hours. It cannot buy governance history, evidence chains, or patent priority dates retroactively.

Governance Enforcement

Constitutional Runtime — Not Advisory Framework

Fail-Closed by Default

Every AI action passes through a Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) before execution. If the governance check fails, the action does not execute. No override below AC-1.

Evidence-Required

Every decision produces a cryptographically linked evidence node in the Evidence Directed Graph (EDG). Append-only. Tamper-evident. SHA-256 hash chain. Indefinite retention.

No-Fabrication Constraint

DELTASUM canonical hashes verify data integrity. If a byte changes, the system detects it. Forbidden pattern scanning runs on every commit. Zero violations across 747+ files.

Patent Architecture

53 Applications — 7 Families

Family Count Status Coverage
Core Constitutional AI 7 FILED Governance framework, fail-closed, authority hierarchy
ROSETTA Triad 3 FILED Harmonic resonance, attunement, semiotic coherence
Consciousness Recognition 5 FILED Human sovereignty, ethical boundaries
Evidence & Audit 8 DOCUMENTED EDG, hash chains, compliance verification
Temporal Governance 5 DOCUMENTED KAIROS, timing windows, ethical timing
Defensive / Strategic 25 DOCUMENTED Market coverage, competitive exclusion
Global Fairness (Family 9) 7 PROPOSED Demographic gates, regional overlays

Any competitor building runtime AI governance enforcement must license these claims or design around them. The patent wall covers constitutional enforcement, evidence chains, temporal governance, alignment protocols, and sovereign deployment.

Mutation Threshold Lock

CDASA Thresholds — Hardened Across 4 Sources

Mutation Threshold

25.0

Maximum allowed score delta before staged review is required.

Canon Mutation Threshold

35.0

Canon-level changes require dual-authority approval. No auto-apply.

Thresholds are cross-referenced across scoring_config.yaml, chron_engine.py, mutation_proposal.yaml, and sovereign_mode_config.yaml. Drift guard validates consistency: 13/13 PASS. Zero drift.

Why Infrastructure ≠ Governance

The Structural Difference

Dimension Infrastructure Governance
Scales with Capital Constitutional rigor
Can be acquired Yes — buy the team No — cannot buy evidence history or priority dates
Enforcement model CI pipeline PEP + EDG + hash chain + temporal gates
Mutation control PR review CDASA thresholds + dual authority + staged proposals
Compliance proof Audit preparation Auto-generated regulatory packs from runtime
Sovereign deployment Roadmap item Validated — 27/27 PASS
Replication cost 12–18 months 18–24 months + $500K+ patent costs