The EAVE Architecture: Engine & Cartridges

The power of the EAVE lies in its unique, decoupled architecture. This allows for maximum flexibility and reuse across different domains. The system is composed of two primary components: the generic Engine and the specific Ethical Cartridge.

1. The Core Engine

The EAVE Core Engine is a domain-agnostic orchestration system. It is responsible for the validation process, but has no inherent knowledge of any specific ethical rules. Its duties include:

• Loading an ethical framework and its associated validation rules.
• Receiving data to be validated (e.g., a transaction, a contract, a user action).
• Executing the applicable rules against the data.
• Aggregating the results from all rule executions.
• Calculating a final, weighted compliance score.
• Generating a comprehensive, auditable ValidationResult.

2. The Ethical Cartridge

The "cartridge" is a pluggable module that contains the specific business logic and principles for a given use case. It's what gives the engine its purpose. Each cartridge typically contains:

• An Ethical Framework: A machine-readable constitution or rulebook (e.g., the 17 Tally Sticks Principles, the articles of GDPR, a corporate ethics charter).
• Validation Rules: A library of functions that implement the logic to test compliance against each principle in the framework.
• Data Providers: Connectors that supply the engine with the specific data it needs from the host application's environment (e.g., from a Prisma database or external APIs).
• Configuration Providers: A service that provides the engine with dynamic configurations, such as rule weights and scoring thresholds.

Visualizing the Flow

[ Data to Validate ] ---> [ EAVE Core Engine ] <--- [ Ethical Cartridge ]
       |                            |                      |
       |                            |                      |-----> [ Constitution ]
       |                            |                      |-----> [ Validation Rules ]
       |                            |                      |-----> [ Data/Config Providers ]
       |                            |
       v                            v
[ ValidationResult ] <--- [ Aggregate & Score ] <--- [ Individual Rule Results ]
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       v
[ Immutable Record on Blockchain ]
                

Constitutional Alignment & Dissonance Detection

A groundbreaking feature of the EAVE platform is its ability to perform Constitutional Alignment Analysis. Our Cognitive Dissonance Engine can programmatically compare two different ethical frameworks—such as your corporate policy against a government regulation—to identify areas of alignment, tension, and direct conflict.

This provides organizations with unprecedented strategic insight for partnerships, regulatory compliance, and international operations, ensuring ethical interoperability before engagement begins.

Key Benefits

Intellectual Property

The core innovation of the EAVE is this architectural separation and the methodology for codifying, validating, and scoring against any formal ethical framework. This novel process forms the basis of our intellectual property and pending patent applications.