{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "name": "DecisionOS Research-to-Product Authority Map",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "generatedAt": "2026-09-26T02:45:00Z",
  "governanceRule": "A scientific concept may exist without product authority; a product capability may exist without validating a broader scientific theory. Epistemic states must not be collapsed.",
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      "concept_id": "CONCEPT-OBSERVABLES",
      "canonical_name": "Decision Physics Observables (Latency, Friction, Handoffs, Loops)",
      "description": "Quantifiable graph-topological metrics derived strictly from event timestamps and interaction edges without content inspection.",
      "scientific_status": "EMPIRICALLY_SUPPORTED",
      "product_capability_status": "IMPLEMENTED_PRODUCTION",
      "product_claim_authority": "AUTHORIZED_PRODUCT_DIAGNOSTIC",
      "publication_authority": "PUBLIC",
      "authorized_claims": [
        "Measures process waiting time, handoff latency, and approval cycles from metadata",
        "Preserves zero-content privacy architecture (no message body reading)"
      ],
      "prohibited_claims": [
        "Measures employee emotion, intent, or cognitive burnout",
        "Determines subjective correctness of a decision"
      ],
      "governing_evidence": "STUDY-OBS-01"
    },
    {
      "concept_id": "CONCEPT-ETA",
      "authority_code": "DP-ETA-001",
      "canonical_name": "Mesoscopic Structural Fragility (eta)",
      "description": "Mesoscopic structural fragility construct derived from retrospective pooled organizational graph topology. Strictly distinct from operational flow efficiency (Active/Elapsed latency).",
      "scientific_status": "SUPPORTED_BOUNDED",
      "reproducibility": "PARTIAL",
      "validation_limitations": "Retrospective pooled separation only; no held-out or leakage-safe validation established.",
      "product_capability_status": "RESTRICTED_EXPLORATORY",
      "product_claim_authority": "EXPLORATORY_STRUCTURAL_FRAGILITY_INDICATOR",
      "publication_authority": "PUBLIC",
      "authorized_claims": [
        "Exploratory mesoscopic structural fragility indicator under retrospective pooled separation (DP-ETA-001)",
        "Identifies topological fragility zones in retrospective graph analysis"
      ],
      "prohibited_claims": [
        "Predictive or forward-looking customer guarantee",
        "Universal physical law determining business survival",
        "Equating eta with operational flow efficiency (active processing time / total elapsed latency)",
        "Credit-rating equivalent score"
      ],
      "governing_authority": {
        "authority_code": "DP-ETA-001",
        "authority_source": "DECISION_PHYSICS_SCIENTIFIC_AUTHORITY_LEDGER_R1",
        "scientific_status": "SUPPORTED_BOUNDED",
        "construct": "Mesoscopic Structural Fragility"
      }
    },
    {
      "concept_id": "CONCEPT-FLOW-EFFICIENCY",
      "authority_code": "PROD-METRIC-FLOW-01",
      "canonical_name": "Operational Flow Efficiency (Φ_flow)",
      "description": "Deterministic operational engineering ratio of active processing time to total elapsed decision latency across workflow handoffs.",
      "scientific_status": "DETERMINISTIC_OPERATIONAL_MEASUREMENT",
      "product_capability_status": "IMPLEMENTED_PRODUCTION",
      "product_claim_authority": "AUTHORIZED_STRUCTURAL_EFFICIENCY_INDICATOR",
      "publication_authority": "PUBLIC",
      "authorized_claims": [
        "Deterministic operational metric: active processing time / total elapsed latency",
        "Directional indicator of workflow coordination drag and structural idle time",
        "Identifies waiting queue latency across multi-actor coordination chains"
      ],
      "prohibited_claims": [
        "Aliasing operational flow efficiency to scientific fragility construct eta (DP-ETA-001)",
        "Claiming flow efficiency alone predicts organizational bankruptcy or survival"
      ],
      "governing_evidence": "STUDY-OBS-01"
    },
    {
      "concept_id": "CONCEPT-SCALING-NSTAR",
      "canonical_name": "Scaling Inflection & N* Coordination Crossover",
      "description": "Observed inflection in communication entropy where coordination overhead begins to dominate active work in studied knowledge teams.",
      "scientific_status": "SUPPORTED_BOUNDED",
      "product_capability_status": "IMPLEMENTED_TOPOLOGY_DIAGNOSTIC",
      "product_claim_authority": "AUTHORIZED_TOPOLOGY_DEPENDENT_DIAGNOSTIC",
      "publication_authority": "PUBLIC",
      "authorized_claims": [
        "Topology-dependent structural crossover observation (empirical central estimate around N* ≈ 14.7 in studied coordination cohorts)",
        "Advisory early friction inflection indicator for densely coupled teams"
      ],
      "prohibited_claims": [
        "Universal physical constant",
        "Fully validated natural scaling law across arbitrary topologies",
        "Mandatory organizational team-splitting prescription"
      ],
      "governing_evidence": "STUDY-SCALING-01",
      "extent": "PARTIAL_TOPOLOGY_DEPENDENT",
      "guidance": "ADVISORY_ONLY",
      "validation_gap": "Broader external validation incomplete"
    },
    {
      "concept_id": "CONCEPT-PPFT",
      "canonical_name": "Post-Peak Topology & Survival (R × S)",
      "description": "Retrospective descriptive post-peak topology and survival framework under controlled research simulation. Function, survival, and recovery are tracked as separate constructs.",
      "scientific_status": "SUPPORTED_BOUNDED",
      "product_capability_status": "BOUNDED_RETROSPECTIVE_REPORTING_ONLY",
      "product_claim_authority": "REPORTING_ONLY_REPAIR_REQUIRED",
      "publication_authority": "PUBLIC",
      "authorized_claims": [
        "Retrospective descriptive post-peak topology indicator (R × S) under controlled research simulation",
        "Separate tracking of functional degradation, survival boundary, and recovery paths"
      ],
      "prohibited_claims": [
        "Real-time supercritical transition trigger in production",
        "Phase-Proximity Flow Theory marketing redefinition without accepted supersession",
        "Equating qualitative visual analogies with operational proof",
        "Conflating function, survival, and recovery"
      ],
      "authority_code": "DP-PPFT-001",
      "lifecycle_status": "REPAIR_REQUIRED",
      "operational_scope": "REPORTING_ONLY",
      "governing_authority": {
        "authority_code": "DP-PPFT-001",
        "authority_source": "DECISION_PHYSICS_SCIENTIFIC_AUTHORITY_LEDGER_R1",
        "scientific_status": "SUPPORTED_BOUNDED",
        "construct": "Post-Peak Topology & Survival (R × S)"
      }
    },
    {
      "concept_id": "CONCEPT-FAILURE-HORIZON",
      "canonical_name": "Failure Horizon (Research Continuity Handoff 2026-09-22)",
      "description": "Research frontier on structural failure boundaries. Current authority establishes: FAILURE_HORIZON_AUTHORITY = NONE; timing model is NOT_SUPPORTED.",
      "scientific_status": "RESEARCH_FRONTIER_NO_CURRENT_AUTHORITY",
      "product_capability_status": "NOT_PRODUCT_AUTHORIZED",
      "product_claim_authority": "PROHIBITED_FROM_PRODUCT_CLAIMS",
      "publication_authority": "PUBLIC",
      "authorized_claims": [
        "FR-01, FR-03, and peer-relative Drift are bounded measurement candidates",
        "Research program strictly governed under Track D rare-event observational framework with unopened outcomes"
      ],
      "prohibited_claims": [
        "Production failure countdown clock",
        "Exact failure date prediction",
        "Pre-failure structural state established",
        "Failure-specific metric established (FAILURE_HORIZON_METRIC = NO)",
        "Current failure horizon timing model supported",
        "Universal failure probability calculator"
      ],
      "governing_evidence": "STUDY-FH-01",
      "failure_horizon_authority": "NONE",
      "pre_failure_structural_state": "NOT_ESTABLISHED",
      "failure_specific_metric": "NOT_ESTABLISHED",
      "failure_horizon_metric": "NO",
      "current_failure_horizon_timing_model": "NOT_SUPPORTED",
      "governance_gates": {
        "D03_AUTHORIZED": false,
        "Q3_OUTCOME_ACCESSED": false,
        "R4_ACCESSED": false
      },
      "measurement_candidates": [
        "FR-01 (bounded measurement candidate)",
        "FR-03 (bounded measurement candidate)",
        "peer-relative Drift (bounded measurement candidate)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "concept_id": "CONCEPT-OPERATIONAL-BOUNDARY",
      "canonical_name": "Operational Boundary Horizon",
      "description": "Engineering threshold identifying when queue lengths and approval backlogs exceed sustainable team processing capacity.",
      "scientific_status": "ENGINEERING_HEURISTIC_MODEL",
      "product_capability_status": "IMPLEMENTED_CAPACITY_ALERT",
      "product_claim_authority": "AUTHORIZED_QUEUE_SATURATION_WARNING",
      "publication_authority": "PUBLIC",
      "authorized_claims": [
        "Identifies queue backlog growth rates outpacing historical throughput",
        "Configurable operational threshold alert"
      ],
      "prohibited_claims": [
        "Predicts corporate bankruptcy",
        "Guarantees exact time-to-failure"
      ],
      "governing_evidence": "STUDY-OBS-01"
    },
    {
      "concept_id": "CONCEPT-GOVERNED-FTL",
      "canonical_name": "Governed Financial Translation Layer (FTL)",
      "description": "Multi-tier economic translation model converting structural latency into bounded financial exposure under CFO parameterization.",
      "scientific_status": "METHODOLOGY_VERIFIED",
      "product_capability_status": "IMPLEMENTED_PASS_BOUNDED",
      "product_claim_authority": "AUTHORIZED_GOVERNED_EXPOSURE_MODELING",
      "publication_authority": "PUBLIC",
      "authorized_claims": [
        "Translates observed decision delay into parametric modeled financial exposure under CFO models",
        "Separates observed financial facts, modeled exposure, and counterfactual scenario estimates",
        "CFO sign-off required for any business intervention modeling"
      ],
      "prohibited_claims": [
        "Direct automatic EBITDA leakage causation",
        "Guaranteed cash savings or revenue generation",
        "Realized financial gains without ex-post audit"
      ],
      "governing_evidence": "STUDY-FTL-01"
    },
    {
      "concept_id": "CONCEPT-CROSS-ORG",
      "canonical_name": "B2B Cross-Org State Observation & Friction Discovery",
      "description": "Bilateral authenticated protocol enabling interacting organizations to observe shared workflow latency without exposing internal data.",
      "scientific_status": "CAPABILITY_VERIFIED_BOUNDED",
      "product_capability_status": "IMPLEMENTED_PASS_BOUNDED",
      "product_claim_authority": "AUTHORIZED_BILATERAL_BOUNDED_OBSERVATION",
      "publication_authority": "PUBLIC",
      "authorized_claims": [
        "Bilateral bounded E2E integration accepted (`PASS_BOUNDED`)",
        "Collaborative friction discovery between partner organizations",
        "Exact internal financial details remain internal by default",
        "Partner scoring weights are policy-governed by customer, not universal constants"
      ],
      "prohibited_claims": [
        "Historical prototype status (superseded by v2.1/Current Truth)",
        "Universal B2B credit rating",
        "Public self-serve commercial release active"
      ],
      "governing_evidence": "STUDY-CROSSORG-01"
    },
    {
      "concept_id": "CONCEPT-REPLAY-EVIDENCE",
      "canonical_name": "Decision Ledger, Temporal Replay & Cryptographic Evidence",
      "description": "Longitudinal audit trail providing tamper-evident historical reconstruction of organizational decision states via SHA-256 hash chains.",
      "scientific_status": "INFRASTRUCTURE_VERIFIED",
      "product_capability_status": "IMPLEMENTED_PRODUCTION",
      "product_claim_authority": "AUTHORIZED_TAMPER_EVIDENT_AUDIT_TRAIL",
      "publication_authority": "PUBLIC",
      "authorized_claims": [
        "SHA-256 audit hash chain = CURRENT (implemented)",
        "RSA-PSS signing/verifying = CURRENT (implemented)",
        "Ed25519 key material = PRESENT (key material present for audit verification)",
        "Deterministic/local replay = CURRENT (implemented)",
        "Target ZKP verification architecture preserved as research scope (true Groth16 runtime = NOT IMPLEMENTED)"
      ],
      "prohibited_claims": [
        "Active production Groth16 runtime verification (not currently proven in production)",
        "Active Ed25519 signing runtime in production (key material present only)",
        "Self-authenticating legal truth or automatic court admissibility"
      ],
      "governing_evidence": "STUDY-CRYPTO-01"
    },
    {
      "concept_id": "CONCEPT-DAAS-CONTEXT",
      "canonical_name": "DaaS (Decision-as-a-Service) Context Infrastructure",
      "description": "Governed decision context delivery model for enterprise AI and executive decision support.",
      "scientific_status": "ARCHITECTURE_SPECIFIED",
      "product_capability_status": "EXISTING_ARCHITECTURE_BOUNDED",
      "product_claim_authority": "AUTHORIZED_CONTEXT_PROJECTION_ARCHITECTURE",
      "publication_authority": "PUBLIC",
      "authorized_claims": [
        "Level A Static Context publishes informative schemas, claim ceilings, and answer contracts",
        "Level B Authenticated DaaS architecture is designed for tenant-isolated, role-entitled context enforcement"
      ],
      "prohibited_claims": [
        "Level A static files can technically force third-party AI models to obey constraints",
        "Level B authenticated live provider is fully production-active (currently bounded / acceptance pending)"
      ],
      "governing_evidence": "STUDY-OBS-01"
    },
    {
      "concept_id": "CONCEPT-OSRS",
      "canonical_name": "OSRS",
      "description": "Maturity framework for institutional decision observability, metadata hygiene, and audit readiness. Canonical acronym is OSRS; long-form expansion is AUTHORITY_UNRESOLVED across current authority sources.",
      "scientific_status": "CONSORTIUM_SPECIFICATION_DRAFT",
      "product_capability_status": "COMPLIANCE_ROADMAP_SPECIFICATION",
      "product_claim_authority": "AUTHORIZED_STANDARD_FRAMEWORK_DRAFT",
      "publication_authority": "PUBLIC",
      "authorized_claims": [
        "Open specification framework for structural metadata governance and readiness scoring under OSRS acronym",
        "Roadmap standard for enterprise decision transparency"
      ],
      "prohibited_claims": [
        "Authoritative expansion to Readiness or Risk without resolving canonical authority",
        "Legally mandated government standard",
        "Mandatory regulatory certification requirement"
      ],
      "governing_evidence": "STUDY-OBS-01",
      "long_form_status": "AUTHORITY_UNRESOLVED",
      "recorded_expansions": [
        "Organizational Structural Readiness Standard",
        "Organizational Structural Risk Standard"
      ]
    }
  ]
}