The permanent technical philosophy of Fortivant.
Evidence. Understanding. Action.
These principles govern how Fortivant is built. They are distinct from the Constitution, which governs how the platform reasons, and from the Manifesto, which declares why the platform exists.
- Principle 01
Law of Evidence
Every claim traces to a source. Nothing is asserted without provenance. Evidence records are versioned and preserved across supersession.
- Principle 02
Law of Uncertainty
Confidence is stated numerically. Unknowns are named openly. Missing evidence is surfaced as an actionable gap, never hidden behind implied precision.
- Principle 03
Deterministic Reasoning
Engines are deterministic. The same inputs produce the same conclusions, always. Rubrics and engine versions are pinned to every snapshot.
- Principle 04
Confidence
Every conclusion is accompanied by a confidence value derived from the underlying evidence — never guessed, never rounded away.
- Principle 05
Explainability
Every recommendation traces to criteria, rubric version, and evidence. Reasoning paths are inspectable end-to-end.
- Principle 06
Versioning
Rubrics, engines, snapshots, facts, records, and recommendations carry versions. Nothing is silently rewritten.
- Principle 07
Append-only History
Superseded records remain queryable. History is never lost; it is layered.
- Principle 08
Human Oversight
Fortivant informs decisions. Leaders make them. The platform never removes human judgment from consequential outcomes.
- Principle 09
Security by Design
Tenant isolation, private document storage, signed URL access, and least-privilege service roles are foundational — not features added later.
- Principle 10
Evidence Provenance
Provenance flows through relational junction tables — one canonical path from evidence to conclusion, never duplicated caches.