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Era I: December 2025

The Provenance Protocol

🏗️ The Problem: The "Black Box" of AI Summaries

In the early development of VFS, the technical challenge wasn't just extracting information—it was proving where that information came from. Traditional AI summarization often creates "hallucinations"—plausible-sounding statements that lack a direct evidence trail. For a mission built on trust, this was unacceptable.

🚀 The Evolution: Source-First Architecture

Era I focused on Provenance. We re-engineered the ingestion and neural pipeline to ensure that no claim could exist without an anchor.

⚖️ Strategic Impact

By the end of Era I, VFS had achieved 100% agreement between the data clusters in our lake and the evidence presented in our UI. We had successfully replaced the "Black Box" with the foundation of the glass box.