Authority Graph Layer
A machine-readable map of roles, mandates, decision rights, evidence rights, continuity obligations, override conditions and escalation paths.
Authority Boundary Engine
Authority, responsibility, evidence rights and continuity obligations made explicit, enforceable and reconstructable across Terra Vita Hub, FieldTrace and Academy.
The Authority Boundary Engine sits above the Governance Spine and below the Evidence Chain. It determines who has the right to do what, when, with what evidence, and what continuity obligations survive institutional change.
Category thesis
The missing institutional layer is not evidence. It is authority.
Every fragile pipeline eventually faces the same question: who had the right to approve, verify, override, bind evidence or inherit responsibility at the time the decision was made?
The Authority Boundary Engine turns that question into a governed system state rather than a memory exercise, email trail or committee reconstruction problem.
Clean architecture
Four layers that make the Hub, FieldTrace and Academy operate as one institutional substrate.
Boundary Enforcement Layer
Enforces who can change, approve, bind, verify and override; it also defines who inherits obligations when authority shifts.
Continuity Engine
Tracks authority transitions, evidence custody, responsibility handovers and versioned governance states.
Cross-Product Sync Layer
One authority change updates Hub modules, FieldTrace permissions, Evidence Chain binding rules, Academy requirements and corridor readiness scoring.
MVP scope
A six-to-ten-week version that already changes the game.
The minimum viable version is enough to differentiate Terra Vita from MRV, governance, nature-tech and reporting platforms because it does not only store evidence; it governs authority around evidence.
MVP componentsAuthority registry · decision rights matrix · evidence rights matrix · continuity log · Hub and FieldTrace API hooks.
MVP outputsWho-can-do-what queries · who-was-responsible-at-the-time queries · continuity alerts · governance stress-test v0.
Immediate institutional valueAuthority becomes reviewable, custody becomes traceable and continuity is no longer dependent on institutional memory.
Cross-product integration
One authority change becomes a system-wide governance update.
Source of truth
Authority, responsibility, continuity and mandate state are governed centrally.
Permission enforcement
Submit, verify, override and evidence-binding permissions follow the authority graph.
Binding rules
Admissibility and reconstructability rules depend on the correct mandate and authority level.
Role-linked training
Authority change triggers mandatory modules before rights can be exercised.
Readiness scoring
Authority clarity, continuity, enforceability and stress resilience become scored dimensions.
Evidence Map
Authority Graph
Verification
Continuity Checkpoint
Lock
Admissibility
Assurance Room
Export Register
Technical architecture
Institutional enough for committees. Concrete enough for engineering.
Authority Node
role_id, mandate_id, decision_rights, evidence_rights, continuity_obligations, override_rules and escalation_paths.
Authority Edge
from_role, to_role, boundary_type and conditions based on time, evidence state and mandate.
Continuity Entry
event_type, timestamp, previous authority state, new authority state and evidence custody changes.
Binding Rule
evidence_type, required authority level, admissibility conditions and immutability conditions.
APIs
Authority, continuity and evidence-binding endpoints
Supabase-ready schema and route contracts are included in this build as implementation scaffolding.
GET /authority/role/{id}
POST /authority/transition
GET /authority/who_can/{action}
GET /continuity/log
POST /continuity/handover
POST /evidence/bind
GET /evidence/admissibility/{id}
Priced capability
Authority is not a platform feature. It is governance infrastructure.
€0.5–2M
Authority mapping, decision rights, evidence rights, continuity log and Hub + FieldTrace integration for ministries, implementers, verifiers and local custodians.
€5–50M
Full authority graph, continuity engine, stress testing, evidence binding rules and Academy authority-linked training.
€80–250M
National authority substrate, cross-ministry continuity enforcement, evidence admissibility engine and multi-corridor synchronisation.
These are institutional governance-infrastructure scope bands, not ordinary SaaS seat prices. Final pricing depends on mandate complexity, jurisdictional scope, reviewer volume, evidence volume and continuity risk.
Demo simulation
Authority Collapse Under Stress.
The simulation shows a ministry leadership change mid-corridor, identifies authority breaks before they become institutional failure, and proposes continuity fixes.
Simulation flow: load authority graph → trigger continuity event → evaluate evidence custody, decision rights, pending approvals and verification rights → identify breaks → propose fixes → update readiness score.
90-day implementation blueprint
From authority map to stress-resilient governance dashboard.
Weeks 1–3Foundations
Define authority node schema, boundary types, minimal authority graph and decision rights matrix.
Weeks 4–6Enforcement
Build policy engine, evidence rights, continuity log and Hub integration.
Weeks 7–9Cross-product sync
Connect FieldTrace permissions, Evidence Chain binding rules, Academy modules and corridor readiness scoring.
Weeks 10–12Simulation layer
Deploy stress-test scenarios, breach detection and readiness dashboard.