The Velil Standard

What a human-readable record of an AI decision must contain to hold in front of a regulator, a buyer, or a board. Free to adopt, with or without us. A standard only matters if it is bigger than its author.

1. A named human owner.

   A person, not a team inbox. Accountability that cannot be forwarded.

2. The decision, in plain language.

   Readable in one pass by someone who was not in the room.

3. The system that produced it.

   Which model, which version, which workflow. Linked, not implied.

4. The approval.

   Who signed, when, against which written policy.

5. Written once, never edited.

   Corrections are new entries. History has no delete key.

6. Independently verifiable.

   The chain must be checkable by the reader's own engineer, with tools they control.

7. Kept beyond the tool.

   The record outlives the vendor, the platform, and the contract that made it.

8. Answerable in minutes.

   If the question comes, the answer is retrieved, not reconstructed.