Defined term set
The IVA glossary: one public language for the architecture.
Each definition links to the maintained canonical page where the concept, evidence boundary, relationships, and practical consequences are explained in full.
Canonical definitions for Integrated Value Architecture, five-ledger governance, structural accounting, SVUs, Internal Governance Monopoly, Decision Readiness, VBOs, and Rule 52.
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Architecture
Core governance terms.
Integrated Value Architecture (IVA)
A five-ledger method that records financial, operational, capacity, learning, and external performance separately and assigns evidence, authority, access, and accountability for decisions.
Read this pageEverything Is Context
The thesis that decision-relevant information requires governed provenance, trust, access, retention, deletion, and explicit human authority over use.
Read this pageFive-ledger architecture
Five independent governance views: Financial, Operational, Capacity, Learning and Innovation, and Externalities and Equity.
Read this pageDomain independence
The doctrine that no ledger may consolidate, convert, net, offset, subordinate, or redefine another.
Read this pageNon-consolidation doctrine
The rule that unlike gains and losses remain independently visible instead of becoming one total.
Read this pageHuman-AI governance interface
The ledger, evidence, authority, and accountability layer through which people govern context larger than any person can hold.
Read this pageStructural accounting
Recognition and record terms.
Structural accounting
Governed recognition of persistent nonfinancial conditions as assets or liabilities inside an independent IVA ledger.
Read this pageStructural Value Unit (SVU)
A domain-bound, nonconvertible unit representing a documented structural condition in a nonfinancial ledger.
Read this pageStructural position
A documented condition recognized as an asset or liability inside one ledger after public recognition criteria are satisfied.
Read this pageStructural event
A material creation, strengthening, emergence, resolution, cross-ledger effect, or integrity change recorded in ledger history.
Read this pageLedger equity
Assets minus liabilities within one ledger, expressed only in that ledger's native unit.
Read this pageLedger register
The authoritative record of position, evidence, valuation, owner, review date, and structural event history for one domain.
Read this pageFailure and application
Diagnostic and applied terms.
Internal Governance Monopoly
A structural condition in which one internal domain gains disproportionate authority over value, evidence, resources, reporting, and legitimate action.
Read this pageFinancial dominance
The common form of Internal Governance Monopoly in which financial logic becomes the internal regime for unlike forms of organizational value.
Read this pageDocument Matrix
IVA's document-first map connecting records to evidence, authority, capacity, funding, obligations, and accountability.
Read this pageDecision Readiness
A five-dimension test of whether one decision has sufficient evidence, authority, capacity, funding, and accountability.
Read this pageDecision Passport
A portable, human-readable, machine-structured record of one consequential decision, its readiness, rationale, commitments, review conditions, and outcome.
Read this pageValue-Based Objective (VBO)
An objective tested against whole-system value, reporting burden, displaced work, evidence, guardrails, and decision rules.
Read this pageRule 52
An AI-use readiness instrument that structures 52 workplace AI decisions, their owners, evidence, operating artifacts, exceptions, incidents, and review dates.
Read this pageRule52 Continuous
The reserved name for a proposed maintained recurring workflow. It is application-only or design-partner only until publication, operational, support, persistence, ownership, and evidence gates are satisfied.
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