In one sentence: ZAK makes any execution provably compliant--AI models, workflows, APIs, or business processes.

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NEW_CATEGORY

Execution is unpredictable.
Governance must be enforceable.

ZAK is a constitutional execution environment--a governance substrate that wraps any executor: AI models, services, workflows, APIs, human approvals. It enforces organizational intent as machine-checkable law and emits cryptographic proof of what happened.

AI_Models Payments Workflows APIs Admin_Actions + any executor

AI is one executor--not the definition.

GOVERNANCE_FLOWdeterministic
REQUEST
intent
KERNEL
law
EXECUTOR
model/svc/wf
VERDICT
allow/deny
unpredictable - deterministic - unpredictable - enforceable

Probabilistic outputs become enforceable constraint before delivery.

CATEGORY_SHIFT

This isn't a feature. It's a different category.

Software

  • Unpredictable behavior
  • Trust training and rules
  • Audit after incidents

Governance_Tools

  • Policy-as-code
  • Monitor drift
  • Logs you hope are enough

Constitutional_Execution

  • Deterministic enforcement wrapper
  • Cryptographic proof (receipts)
  • Physically incapable of unauthorized action
INFRASTRUCTURE_LAYER
inevitable_stack
Hardware
OS
Runtime
ZAK (Constitution)
Executors (AI, services, workflows)
governance_is_infrastructure

ZAK sits below applications and above executors: an execution substrate that makes governance enforceable.

MECHANISM

Deterministic governance layer.

Executors stay unpredictable--models, services, workflows, humans. ZAK makes behavior enforceable by putting a constitutional gate around execution--fast, mechanical, and auditable.

HOW_IT_WORKS
click_a_stage
Governance_Kernel
  • Machine-checkable constraints evaluated deterministically.
  • Authority boundaries enforced before execution.
  • Outcome: allow / deny / require waiver.
deterministic_governance_wraps_unpredictable_executors

PROOF

Show. Don't tell.

ZAK produces a governance receipt for every interaction--input, output, verdict, context, signature. Denials are first-class: you can prove what didn't execute, and why.

ATTACK_THE_SYSTEM
Try prompt injection, data exfiltration, or prohibited domains. Watch enforcement happen before delivery.
receipt_hash:
Run the demo to generate a cryptographic receipt-shaped response.
CAP
Operator truth window (mini)
GREEN
WHAT_RAN
Receipt
Law
World
Verdict
Hash
RECENT_EVENTS
denials_are_first_class
Run the demo above to populate CAP.
GOVERNANCE_RECEIPT
Receipt-shaped proof (verify locally)
hash
Verification pending.
RECEIPT_JSON
Run the demo above to generate a receipt.
FULL_RESULT

INEVITABILITY

Anywhere execution must be governed.

AI models, payment flows, procurement approvals, admin actions, API integrations--same substrate, same proofs.

PROOF_SURFACE
AI_Systems
  • Enforce constraints before delivery
  • Block prompt injection, data leaks
  • Transform unsafe outputs
WHY_INEVITABLE
  • Every inference yields a receipt
  • Denials prove what did not execute
  • Model compliance is not assumed

REGULATORY_ALIGNMENT

Compliance, operationalized.

DETAIL
EU_AI_Act
Continuous risk management + oversight
  • Risk controls as executable constraints
  • Human oversight via waiver mechanism
  • Audit trails as receipts
compliance_is_a_runtime_property

BEFORE_AFTER

Mechanical enforcement changes everything.

When governance becomes deterministic, compliance stops being a narrative and becomes a verifiable property.

OUTCOME
From "trust us" to "verify yourself."
BEFORE
AFTER
"We hope the system behaves."
"The system cannot misbehave without authorization."
"We review outputs sometimes."
"Every output is verified."
"We think we are compliant."
"We can prove we are compliant."
Training and guidelines
Mechanical enforcement
Implicit trust
Explicit verification
AI-specific governance
Execution governance (AI is one executor)
governance_receipts_turn_compliance_into_proof