Technical overview
Architecture & Security
Pulse is designed to attach to a consequential execution path without replacing orchestration, workflow systems, business applications, identity platforms, AI models, or systems of record. Production design begins with the execution boundary, required context, evidence contract, security assumptions, and failure behavior.
Deployment postures
Instrumentation should match the operating need.
Minimum criteria package
Pulse should receive enough context to reproduce what was evaluated.
Workflow and period
The controlled action, business surface, applicable time boundary, and population definition.
Rule identifier and version
The approved operating standard, its effective date, and the client approval or authority behind it.
Testable condition
The explicit condition Pulse evaluates and the required decision semantics.
Authority requirement
The role, token, delegation, approval, or other basis required for the action.
Required fields and sources
The facts and source systems used in the evaluation, with enough provenance to support replay.
Framework relationships
Applicable criteria, obligations, and finding relationships where the mapping is supportable.
Security review
Production readiness requires explicit answers.
Identity, keys, trust
- Authentication and service identity
- Signing-key custody, rotation, access, and compromise response
- Replay prevention and artifact TTL
- Pseudonymous actor or authority tokens where appropriate
- Data minimization and retention
Reliability, operations, change
- Encryption and network boundaries
- Availability, failover, and explicit failure behavior
- Human escalation and override governance
- Logging, monitoring, and incident response
- Change control for criteria, rules, and versions
A system that enforces a bad rule consistently is not well governed. Runtime integrity depends on governance of the rule-authoring and change process as well as deterministic enforcement.
Claim discipline
Separate demonstrated behavior from deployment claims.
Pulse has demonstrated core engine behaviors including allow/escalate/block logic, replay, trace generation, version validation, and evidence creation in defined environments. Production performance, resilience, key management, incident operations, and system-specific integration must be evaluated within the actual deployment context.