Government · the same standard, extended
The accountability standard, read in government.
Independently verifiable integrity — trust resolves to math, not to a vendor's word — with a roadmap to a root-of-trust path to the silicon. The same eight axes, the same chain, the same verifier, instantiated for the mission. The eight axes never change; only what they mean for the mission does.
Don't trust us — the integrity of this page is recomputable in your own browser
Patent-pending — U.S. Provisional 63/921,717
For government
Who it's for, what it promises, how it's proven.
How it works
From a record to a proof, in four moves.
The mechanism is the same for every record and every access. Nothing here asks you to trust a vendor's word — the last step is something you do yourself.
The record is written
A record (or an edit to one) is committed and bound into an append-only chain — sensitive fields encrypted at the record.
Every access is stamped
Each read or change becomes a WORM event — who, what, when — that nobody can quietly remove or rewrite after the fact.
Access is gated
A person authenticates with a phishing-resistant passkey; access is least-privilege and the access itself is recorded.
You recompute the proof
Open the verifier and recompute the hash yourself. If the record changed, the hash changes — integrity resolves to math, in your browser.
One framework · eight axes
The eight axes — read in government.
The canonical axis codes, names, and roles are frozen by the engine and shown unchanged. Only the gloss — what the axis means in government — is specific to this domain. No axis is relabeled; no named entity is measured.
PO · Physical & Outdoor
Somatic foundation
Mission & infrastructure readiness — continuity of operations and the resilience of mission systems.
NM · Nutritional & Metabolic
Somatic foundation
Appropriations & resource intake — funding, staffing, and the resources that sustain the mission.
ER · Emotional & Relational
Resilience wing
Public & stakeholder trust — the relationship with the citizens and stakeholders served.
SC · Social & Communal
Spirit term
Interagency & civic coherence — coordination across agencies and standing in the public sphere.
RS · Religious & Spiritual
Resilience wing
Mandate & oath adherence — fidelity to statute, the public interest, and the oath of office.
ES · Environmental Stewardship
Environment term
Records & public-resource stewardship — custody of records and stewardship of public resources.
TA · Technological & Adaptive
Technology term
Systems modernization — replacing legacy systems, security tooling, root-of-trust adoption.
PV · Purposeful & Vocational
Purpose exponent
Authority & vocational fitness — statutory authority, clearances, and fitness for the mission.
The composite is multiplicative — you can't paper over a missing pillar to lift the score — and the consistency exponent rewards steadiness across all eight. See the canonical eight axes →
Engineered for the rules, not badged against them
How the standard maps to the federal security baseline (FISMA / NIST 800-53).
We don't ask you to take a certificate on faith — a logo on a page proves nothing you can check. Each obligation maps to a mechanism you can inspect or recompute — the difference between asserting compliance and demonstrating it.
| Obligation | How the standard satisfies it | Status |
|---|---|---|
NIST 800-53 · AUAudit & accountability |
Every access is an append-only, chain-stamped WORM event — who, what, when — that no one can quietly remove. | Built |
NIST 800-53 · ACAccess control |
Least-privilege access, and every access recorded to the audit chain — enforced and observable, not just configured. | Built |
NIST 800-53 · IAIdentification & authentication |
WebAuthn passkey sign-in — phishing-resistant, with no shared secret to steal or replay. | Built |
NIST 800-53 · SCSystem & communications protection |
Records move only inside an authenticated, encrypted transport — TLS at the edge, sealed-header frames between internal nodes. | Built |
NIST 800-53 · SI-7Software, firmware & information integrity |
Records bind into a SHA3 hash-chain; any alteration changes the leaf and is detectable. You recompute the hash yourself. | Built |
FISMA / FedRAMPAuthorization to operate (ATO) |
Mechanism mapping to the control families above; a FedRAMP authorization package and a root-of-trust path to the silicon are on the roadmap. | Roadmap |
Status is honest. Each row is Built (the mechanism exists in the gold stack) or Roadmap (the Government-specific instantiation is planned). Medicine is the one live, shipped domain today. This maps mechanism to obligation — it is not a claim of certification, because the standard is to prove integrity, not badge it.
Same engine · illustrative archetype
An illustrative government archetype, scored by the same engine.
Illustrative profile: a mission agency with strong mandate and stewardship, working to modernize legacy systems.
These are illustrative inputs — not a measurement of any named entity. Feed them through the same public compute() on The Standard page, change any slider, and recompute it yourself.
What you get
The standard, in your hands.
- The accountability score — your eight axes scored by the public engine, recomputable by anyone.
- The tamper-evident record — records and access history on an append-only chain.
- The in-browser verifier — recompute any record's integrity yourself, no trust required.
- A verifiable export — a portable, independently-checkable account of who-saw-what, when.
- Encrypted data at rest — field-level AES-256-GCM on sensitive fields (rolling in).
- A standard, not a lock-in — the proof is open math you can run even if you leave.
Questions a security officer and a records custodian ask first.
Can this support an ATO or a FedRAMP path?
The mechanisms map to NIST 800-53 control families; a full authorization package is roadmap work, and we'll be honest about what is and isn't authorized. Talk to us about your boundary.
Where does the data reside, and who can see it?
Data residency and access are part of the boundary conversation — least-privilege access is enforced and every access is recorded. Tell us your requirements.
If you go away, can the agency still verify its own records?
Yes. The verifier is open math over an append-only chain; independent re-verification does not depend on us.
What's live today versus on the roadmap?
Medicine is the live, shipped anchor. For government the core mechanisms are Built; the authorization package and root-of-trust path are Roadmap.
Why one framework covers it
The same formula, the same chain, the same verifier.
Accountability has the same shape in government as anywhere else: a foundation, the relationships built on it, the capability to adapt, and the consistency to sustain it. The proof is identical — and it resolves to math, not to our word.
One formula over eight axes
The composite is multiplicative and the consistency exponent rewards steadiness — so you can't fake a missing pillar to lift your standing. The same engine that scores every domain.
One append-only chain
The record — and every access to it — sits on a chain where nobody can quietly rewrite the past. Tamper-evident by construction, not by promise.
One verifier anyone can run
Don't trust us — recompute the chain in your own browser. Every domain runs the exact same proof. Open the verifier →
Looking for another regulated world? The same standard reads in all ten domains. Medicine is the one that is live and shipped today — see the live anchor →