← The Accountability Thesis: From Gap to Standard

Source Appendix

Warrant · S01 · E05

NIST AI RMF 1.0 and NIST AI 600-1 — standards path 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), standards alignment analysis by Summit Cognitive.

Evidence Records

"Decision Receipts address all four NIST AI RMF functions with a concrete, deployable artifact — not a paper framework."
Confidence: 0.98 · Rights: public_domain · approved
Used by claims: claim-001, claim-002, claim-004, claim-006

Decision accountability competitive landscape — Season finale update, June 2026

Type: document · Reliability: high · Collected: 2026-06-04T00:00:00.000Z

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

Evidence Records

"Decision Receipts remain the only production system producing portable, cryptographically signed, independently replayable proofs of AI decision accountability. The gap is not closing — it is widening."
Confidence: 0.95 · Rights: cleared · approved
Used by claims: claim-002

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-005

Decision Receipt production snapshot — 2026-06-04 (season finale)

Type: dataset · Reliability: high · Collected: 2026-06-04T12:00:00.000Z

Citation: Decision Receipt production endpoint, captured 2026-06-04T12:00:00Z. 3,500+ total receipts.

Evidence Records

"Total receipts: 3,500+. Accepted: 3,452. Blocked: 47. Acceptance rate: 98.6%. Agents: 9. Zero verification failures in production."
Confidence: 0.99 · Rights: cleared · approved
Used by claims: claim-001, claim-002, claim-004

Standards path analysis: TLS precedent and Decision Receipt standardization roadmap

Type: document · Reliability: high · Collected: 2026-06-04T00:00:00.000Z

Citation: Summit Cognitive standards path analysis, June 2026. Historical TLS timeline from IETF RFC archives.

Evidence Records

"Three conditions for standard adoption: demonstrated need, working implementation, and open format. All three conditions are met."
Confidence: 0.9 · Rights: cleared · approved
Used by claims: claim-003, claim-004, claim-005, claim-006