LivingDoc™
The Authority Layer for AI-Era Decisions
LivingDoc is a canonical authority system for decisions, policies, and records that must remain valid over time.It exists to solve a structural problem emerging across regulated and AI-augmented organisations: when decisions are made faster than authority can be proven, replayed, or defended.LivingDoc does not replace documents. It replaces ambiguity.
What LivingDoc Is
LivingDoc is not a document format or content tool.
It is an authority substrate that defines:
• What was authoritative
• When it became authoritative
• What scope it governed
• What decisions were permitted under itLivingDoc treats documents as derivatives, not sources of truth.The authoritative object is the decision state itself.
What LivingDoc Solves
LivingDoc exists to specific problems
Modern organisations increasingly rely on:
• AI-assisted decisions
• Automated workflows
• Distributed human and machine actorsYet authority remains trapped in PDFs, Wikis, Policy portals and Informal versioning. These systems cannot answer a critical question:“What was definitively in force when this decision was made?”
What Makes LivingDoc Different
LivingDoc introduces temporal authority. Each authoritative state is:
• Explicitly declared
• Cryptographically fixed
• Time-bound
• ReplayableThis enables:
• Decision replay
• Policy lineage
• Audit without reconstruction
• AI deference without interpretationNothing is inferred. Nothing is retroactively justified.
LivingDoc and AI Systems
LivingDoc does not tell AI systems what to decide.
It defines:
• Whether a decision is permitted
• Under which authority
• At what moment in timeAI systems can bind to LivingDoc states as a source of permission, not interpretation.This creates a clean separation between authority (human or institutional) and execution (machine or system).
Why it supersedes PDFs
PDFs are static representations.
PDFs cannot:
• Express authority state
• Prevent silent mutation
• Bind to AI execution
• Support deterministic replayLivingDoc treats PDFs as exports, not evidence.The authoritative record is the LivingDoc state — not the file that represents it.
Acquisition & Ownership
LivingDoc is offered as:
• Transferable intellectual property
• Exclusive or semi-exclusive licensingIt is not sold as a SaaS product.
It is not deployed publicly.Ownership confers structural advantage.
Where LivingDoc Is Used
LivingDoc is institutional infrastructure.
LivingDoc is designed for environments where:
• Decisions carry legal, regulatory, or reputational risk
• AI systems must defer to human authority
• Retroactive interpretation is unacceptableTypical domains include:
• Regulated AI deployment
• Financial and risk governance
• Hiring and workforce decisions
• Policy-driven automation
• Audit and compliance systems
What LivingDoc Is Not
LivingDoc fixes authority.
LivingDoc is not:
• A content editor
• A collaboration tool
• A document management system
• A compliance checklist
• An AI decision engineIt does not optimise workflows.It fixes authority.
Relationship to GhostForge
LivingDoc is a GhostForge decision architecture.Like all GhostForge systems:
• It sits upstream of products and platforms
• It collapses complexity rather than managing it
• It alters the economics of decision-makingPublic material establishes what LivingDoc is.
Operational depth is disclosed only in private sale contexts.
LivingDoc™
Authority, preserved. Decisions, governable. Liability, bounded.