Asset provenance
What artifact is this, and how did it change?
Interveil Engine · Public Alpha
An epistemic engine that keeps the event, its record, its evidentiary weight, and every later meaning from silently collapsing into one fluent answer.
No truth score. No autonomous canonical writes. Every answer returns to a named packet revision.
Preserve the thing. Expose the chain. Version the meaning.
The layer that was missing
The first four are representable chains. The fifth belongs to reality—not to a database field.
What artifact is this, and how did it change?
Who asserted this, where, when, and through what extraction?
What bears on the claim, in which direction and scope?
What meaning is assigned under which declared lens?
Never computed. Constrained by the record; guaranteed by none of it.
One stack · clear obligations
Selectable surfaces
Inspector · Reader · Studio · Evidence API
What a person picks up.
Enrichment + consent
Capture · sovereignty · disclosure · authorship
How it meets the person.
Append-only epistemic graph
Echo collapse · Loss Ledger · frontiers · receipts
What does the work.
C2PA · PROV-O · SCITT · Nanopublications · RO-Crate
Two independent encodings
Different teams, different contested material, nearly the same machine. Figures remain separate by design.
40 claim-family assertions · 3 independence clusters · 5 recorded losses
66 links · 12 atomic claims · 3 frontiers · 15 checked invariants
Shared result
Two planes. One-way membrane. Seven assessment dimensions. Explicit loss. Supersede, never erase. No truth score.
The instrument in your hands
Search finds strings. Interveil searches ancestry: independent roots, derivation, counterlines, loss, and the exact point where the record ends.
return every claim whose apparent corroboration collapses to one root
12 publications → 1 dependency cluster → 1 independent root
Assessment was not increased by repetition.From the Interveil Journal
Consensus can measure a population. It cannot see the original event. The journal essay behind the Engine begins with one lost measurement—and the discipline required to keep uncertainty alive.
Read the journal entry →“Mystery is not the enemy of knowledge. Counterfeit certainty is.”
Public alpha · In preparation
Start with the seeded packet. Unfold every sentence. Then bring your own source into the local-first capture workbench.
Enter the Engine