Evidence library
A practical VES 1.2 implementation guide
Implementation should begin with one decision and a clear review question, not with a broad promise to capture everything.
Definition
The precise question
A VES 1.2 implementation maps one consequential decision to a Decision Envelope, its Evidence Objects, verification profile and declared limitations.
Reference model
From category to independent review
Decision assurance
Decision evidence
VES decision envelope
Evidence objects
Independent review
The envelope can link model output, runtime records, policy versions, authority records, claims documents, human rationale, external data and approvals while preserving each source's declared limits.
Insurance example
What this looks like in practice
Start with a claims referral or underwriting exception that crosses a system or authority boundary and measure the reconstruction burden before and after mapping.
Evidence map
What a reviewer needs to see
- Decision identity, context and execution boundary
- Conditions, authority, system and human contribution
- Integrity, verification profile, replay path and limitations
A 30-day starting path
- Choose one consequential workflow and decision question
- Map available, relied-upon, excluded and superseded evidence
- Identify authority and governing conditions at execution
- Represent system and human contribution
- Run structural checks and document limitations
- Review the package with people who did not build it
Keep the first scope honest
A small, well-understood envelope is more useful than an organisation-wide inventory that cannot explain what mattered. Expand only after the review path works for the first workflow.
The VES connection
A published evidence structure
Read the current VES 1.2 publication, schemas and verification language at the VES site before implementing.
Read VES 1.2 for the published Decision Envelope, Evidence Object and verification model.
Boundary
This guide does not disclose capture orchestration, authority-resolution, conflict-handling or completeness-scoring internals, and it does not create a conformance claim.
Frequently asked
What does a practical ves 1.2 implementation guide address?
A VES 1.2 implementation maps one consequential decision to a Decision Envelope, its Evidence Objects, verification profile and declared limitations.
Does this establish that a decision was correct or compliant?
This guide does not disclose capture orchestration, authority-resolution, conflict-handling or completeness-scoring internals, and it does not create a conformance claim.