← The Accountability Gap: Why Nobody Can Prove How AI Decisions Are Made

Source Appendix

Warrant · S01 · E01

NIST AI RMF 1.0 and NIST AI 600-1 gap analysis

Type: document · Reliability: high · Collected: 2026-06-03T00:00:00.000Z

Citation: NIST AI Risk Management Framework 1.0 (Jan 2023) and AI 600-1 (Jul 2024), gap analysis by Summit Cognitive.

Evidence Records

"The framework specifies WHAT organizations must do but provides no reference implementation for HOW to produce verifiable artifacts."
Confidence: 0.98 · Rights: public_domain · approved
Used by claims: claim-002, claim-003

Decision accountability competitive landscape — June 2026

Type: document · Reliability: high · Collected: 2026-06-03T00:00:00.000Z

Citation: Summit Cognitive internal competitive landscape analysis, June 2026.

Evidence Records

"No deployed product treats AI decision accountability as an infrastructure layer with a portable, verifiable output artifact."
Confidence: 0.95 · Rights: cleared · approved
Used by claims: claim-001, claim-002

Decision Receipt production snapshot — 2026-06-03

Type: dataset · Reliability: high · Collected: 2026-06-03T21:00:00.000Z

Citation: Decision Receipt production endpoint, captured 2026-06-03T21:00:00Z. 3,222 total receipts.

Evidence Records

"Total receipts: 3,222. Accepted: 3,178. Blocked: 43. Acceptance rate: 99%. Agents: 9."
Confidence: 0.99 · Rights: cleared · approved
Used by claims: claim-004, claim-005

U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 64/034,952

Type: legal_record · Reliability: high · Collected: 2026-06-03T00:00:00.000Z

Citation: USPTO Patent Center, provisional application 64/034,952, filed April 10, 2026.

Evidence Records

"Unified decision accountability architecture comprising provenance capture, competing hypothesis enforcement, deterministic replay from sealed evidence bundles, and portable cryptographically signed Decision Receipt generation."
Confidence: 0.99 · Rights: cleared · approved
Used by claims: claim-004