Governed Trust Infrastructure
kti.flow provides the infrastructure where trusted knowledge is registered, resolved, governed and exchanged.
Proves what something is.
Immutable. Portable. Travels with the knowledge.
Institutional Memory.
The governed trust infrastructure. Records molecule registration, lineage, trust events, economic events, rights states and governance decisions. Never stores primary knowledge content.
Connective Fabric.
The distributed execution layer. Synchronisation, resolution, event propagation, integrity validation, and trusted connectivity between participants.
From Knowledge Core to Settlement
A Knowledge Core is sealed into an FPA Molecule. The Molecule is registered with kti.flow. From that point, kti.flow records every retrieval, consumption and economic event — without ever touching the Molecule. kti.flow propagates those fabric events across participating infrastructure.
The Knowledge Core is the meaning.
Canonical content, semantic structure, extracted meaning, structural metadata. Answers: "What is this knowledge?"
The FPA Molecule is the proof.
Immutable trust container. Embeddable in AI systems, stored in vector databases, passed across networks.
kti.flow is the institutional memory.
Records what has happened to every trusted knowledge object. Append-only. Nothing is ever overwritten.
kti.flow is the connective fabric.
Synchronisation, resolution, event propagation, and integrity validation — distributed reliably across participating ecosystems.
Click any node to explore its role in the architecture.
The Distributed Execution Fabric
The kti.flow fabric layer provides the distributed execution capability — ensuring trusted records are available, resolvable, and propagated across participating infrastructure. Where the registry layer defines what should be recorded, the fabric layer ensures it happens reliably at scale.
Ensures trusted records are available across participating infrastructure — molecule registrations, lineage updates, trust events, economic events.
Trusted resolution: VSID → Molecule ID → Knowledge Lineage → Knowledge Core Version → Verification State.
Moves immutable fabric events through the distributed fabric — validation, retrieval, consumption, settlement.
Maintains event hashes, timestamps, continuity chains, and full audit history across all participating nodes.
DNS + PKI + Git + Financial Settlement + Audit Ledger
— but designed specifically for trusted knowledge.
Origin resolution — finding the Molecule via VSID
Trust verification — identity and signatures
Lineage tracking — immutable version history
Bilateral economic fabric event processing
Append-only, tamper-evident fabric event record
What kti.flow Provides
Molecule Registry
Every Molecule is registered with kti.flow. Identity proofs are stored — not the Molecule itself. The Molecule remains portable.
Knowledge Lineage Registry
Every Knowledge Core version is permanently addressable. Knowledge evolves by appending new versions. History is never overwritten.
Trust Event Ledger
Every trust event — creation, validation, verification, challenge, certification — is recorded as an immutable append-only fabric event.
Economic Event Ledger
Every economic event — retrieval, consumption, licensing, AI inference, citation, settlement — is an immutable fabric event attached to the Molecule.
Independent Timestamp Authority
No participant controls event time. Every fabric event receives three independent timestamps — preventing gaming or retrospective modification.
Settlement Infrastructure
Consumption becomes a bilateral economic fabric event. kti.flow performs settlement automatically. The creator never invoices manually.
The Architecture Is Non-Negotiable
Molecules are immutable.
Once created, authenticated and hashed, a Molecule never changes.
Knowledge evolves by appending new versions.
New KC versions create new Molecules. History is preserved.
kti.flow never overwrites history.
Every fabric event is append-only. Nothing is edited. Nothing is deleted.
Every fabric event is independently timestamped.
No participant — consumer, creator or provider — controls event time.
Every fabric event is cryptographically hashed.
Each event generates its own tamper-evident hash.
Economic events are fabric events, never Molecule properties.
Consumption never modifies the Molecule. It appends an Economic fabric event to kti.flow.
Settlement is performed from Economic fabric events.
The infrastructure settles automatically from the event ledger.
The complete history is always reconstructable.
Every KC version, trust event, and economic event is permanently addressable. Consumer and provider timestamps are never considered authoritative — the Origin Time Authority timestamp is part of the event hash.
Bilateral Settlement
Default Settlement Policy — Illustrative
Every consumption event becomes an append-only bilateral economic fabric event. No event may be updated or deleted. kti.flow verifies rights, captures the kCv confidence score at consumption, calculates the Settlement Value, and records settlement automatically.
kCv is a confidence score, not a price. The Settlement Value is derived from kCv at time of consumption. Each economic event requires: event_id, event_type, molecule_id, knowledge_lineage_id, consumer identity, provider identity, rights policy reference, kCv value, requested timestamp, origin timestamp, and event hash. The Origin Time Authority timestamp is part of the event hash — preventing retrospective alteration, settlement manipulation, and consumption disputes.
Consumer retrieves Molecule
VSID resolved via kti.flow
Rights verified
L4 Rights + L5 Policy checked
Fabric economic event created
Independently timestamped + hashed
kCv score captured at consumption
Confidence in evidence chain locked at moment of use
Settlement Value calculated
Derived from kCv + rights + policy; distribution rule applied
Settlement fabric event appended
Immutable — audit trail updated
Knowledge Core = Meaning.
FPA Molecule = Proof.
kti.flow = Institutional Memory.
kti.flow (fabric) = Connective Execution Layer.
Together they create trusted knowledge infrastructure for the AI era — where every registration, verification, consumption, and settlement is recorded as an immutable fabric event, with complete transparency, provenance, and accountability.