Research
AI governance is an enforcement problem, not a monitoring problem. FERZ conducts applied research in AI governance and develops runtime authorization infrastructure. The research translates formal results into reference architectures, engineering specifications, and testable requirements for pre-execution authorization. The distinction between observability and authorization has concrete consequences for how systems are designed, integrated, and evaluated.
Applied research
The engineering questions are specific: how a runtime authorization boundary controls execution; which action, policy, authority, and state must be bound to an authorization artifact; how fail-closed governance handles indeterminate cases; and what evidence must be preserved to support an independently reconstructable verdict.
FERZ's engineering draws on this theoretical foundation and the company's intellectual property. The published research gives architects, engineers, and evaluators explicit requirements against which an implementation can be examined, and the published Five Tests Standard states those requirements as tests. Governance is the market category; authorization is the enforcement mechanism. This section brings together the research corpus, the standard, and citation guidance.
Research Corpus
The monograph, papers, technical notes, and standards materials on pre-execution authorization, authorization artifacts, and the distinction between observability and authorization. Entries identify the edition described and link to the deposited work. Begin with the unified monograph, Deterministic AI Governance.
Published Standards
The Five Tests Standard (5TS), a published technical standard for verifiable AI governance, deposited as a standard record. Its five normative tests are Stop, Ownership, Replay, Escalation, and Provenance.
Determinism Timeline
A chronological view of FERZ research on deterministic AI governance.
The Authorization Artifact Gap
Technical Advisory TA-2026-01 examines the evidentiary gap created when observability records are relied upon to establish pre-execution authorization.
How to cite
DOI links open the latest version of each work. Edition labels identify the version described here; earlier editions remain available through the repository's version history.
See Citation Guidance for examples and citation export options.