# Forms of AI-bonded truth systems

> Truth systems take the shape of their work. The domain changes what counts as evidence, which facts must move together, who reviews the change, and which read surface is worth keeping.

These generalized patterns were distilled from first-party systems. They explain what is possible without turning private state into a public case study or presenting a generic template.

## Shared grammar

1. **Evidence.** Preserve what a source can actually establish.
2. **Governed change.** Propose an exact, attributable transition.
3. **Current account.** Advance only after the right review.
4. **Bounded read.** Show each reader what they need to act.

## Coordination truth

**Question:** What needs attention now, and what changed?

A living account between changing outside intent and operating reality.

Use this form when requests, plans, and reported outcomes arrive through imperfect channels and one responsible person must reconcile them before others act.

- **Evidence:** Messages, spreadsheets, orders, system extracts, call notes, and operator reports.
- **Governed change:** An attributable change set reconciled against the whole account and reviewed by the responsible operator.
- **Current account:** Current obligations, operating state, disagreements, unknowns, and the reason each fact moved.
- **Useful read:** A focused worksheet or communication package containing only what its reader needs to decide or report.
- **Guardrail:** The outside surface is a bounded read, not a window into the full working system.

## Financial truth

**Question:** What happened financially, and is the period closed?

An evidence-backed ledger whose corrections and closes remain attributable.

Use this form when source documents must become a balanced current account and prior periods must remain stable without hiding later corrections.

- **Evidence:** Receipts, invoices, statements, contracts, exports, and other bounded financial sources.
- **Governed change:** Balanced, dated journal entries that cite evidence, followed by an exact reviewed close for the period.
- **Current account:** The ledger projection, open reconciliation, explicit unknowns, and preserved close packets.
- **Useful read:** Trial balances, financial statements, account detail, and a close narrative a reviewer can inspect.
- **Guardrail:** An AI peer can prepare and reconcile; acceptance remains bound to the exact entries and balances under review.

## Organizational truth

**Question:** What remains true across changing projects?

A slower account of identity, authority, relationships, decisions, and open questions.

Use this form when important conclusions cross project boundaries or outlast the repositories and conversations that first produced them.

- **Evidence:** Official records, direct decisions, owning repositories at exact revisions, and external statements within their authority.
- **Governed change:** A bounded domain record with citations, uncertainty, and an exact before-and-after change reviewed as one transition.
- **Current account:** A compact selection of accepted organizational records with their fuller meaning and history still recoverable.
- **Useful read:** A clear human map and compact AI context for identity, authority, portfolio relationships, and unresolved questions.
- **Guardrail:** It records stable consequences, not a second copy of product status, infrastructure, or operational detail.

## A pattern is not a template

Each implementation must define its own domain, source authority, reviewer, invariants, correction path, and failure posture. [Truth Machine](https://kinra.ai/docs/truth-machine/) supplies the reference grammar, not those answers.