Defined term set
The IVA glossary: one public language for the architecture.
Each definition links to the maintained canonical page where the concept, evidence boundary, relationships, and practical consequences are explained in full.
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Architecture
Core governance terms.
Integrated Value Architecture (IVA)
A five-ledger organizational governance and decision architecture for machine-scale context and human-scale accountability.
Open the recordEverything Is Context
The thesis that information should not be discarded merely because its future analytical value cannot yet be predicted.
Open the recordFive-ledger architecture
Five independent governance views: Financial, Operational, Capacity, Learning and Innovation, and Externalities and Equity.
Open the recordDomain independence
The doctrine that no ledger may consolidate, convert, net, offset, subordinate, or redefine another.
Open the recordNon-consolidation doctrine
The rule that unlike gains and losses remain independently visible instead of becoming one total.
Open the recordHuman-AI governance interface
The ledger, evidence, authority, and accountability layer through which people govern context larger than any person can hold.
Open the recordStructural accounting
Recognition and record terms.
Structural accounting
Governed recognition of persistent nonfinancial conditions as assets or liabilities inside an independent IVA ledger.
Open the recordStructural Value Unit (SVU)
A domain-bound, nonconvertible unit representing a documented structural condition in a nonfinancial ledger.
Open the recordStructural position
A documented condition recognized as an asset or liability inside one ledger after public recognition criteria are satisfied.
Open the recordStructural event
A material creation, strengthening, emergence, resolution, cross-ledger effect, or integrity change recorded in ledger history.
Open the recordLedger equity
Assets minus liabilities within one ledger, expressed only in that ledger's native unit.
Open the recordLedger register
The authoritative record of position, evidence, valuation, owner, review date, and structural event history for one domain.
Open the recordFailure and application
Diagnostic and applied terms.
Internal Governance Monopoly
A structural condition in which one internal domain gains disproportionate authority over value, evidence, resources, reporting, and legitimate action.
Open the recordFinancial dominance
The common form of Internal Governance Monopoly in which financial logic becomes the internal regime for unlike forms of organizational value.
Open the recordDocument Matrix
IVA's document-first map connecting records to evidence, authority, capacity, funding, obligations, and accountability.
Open the recordDecision Readiness
A five-dimension test of whether evidence, authority, capacity, funding, and accountability line up around one decision.
Open the recordValue-Based Objective (VBO)
An objective tested against whole-system value, reporting burden, displaced work, evidence, guardrails, and decision rules.
Open the recordRule 52
An applied AI-use-readiness instrument that turns 52 workplace AI decisions into owned rules and operating artifacts.
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