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Domain Gate Packages — Encoding and Products

Encoding — How Rules Are Translated from Codified Domains

Laws, regulations, standards, procedures, and technical specifications are already written down in structured text. The LLM does not need to reason about them — it needs to translate them into gate rules and ACL2 theorems.

Example: The US Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) is ~2,000 pages. A frontier LLM can ingest the FAR and produce a plist of gate rules:

  • (if contract > $250K AND not small-business-set-aside → :deny)
  • (if sole-source AND no justification-documented → :deny, produce-justification)

ACL2 verifies the rule set for internal consistency. Screamer checks against existing compliance facts. The human reviews the bootstrap output and approves or corrects individual rules.

The key distinction: the LLM is not extracting knowledge from prose — it is translating a known rule system into a formal representation. The result is not "the LLM's best guess" but "the rule set as stated in the source document, mechanically transcribed."

For codified domains, the encoding cost drops from weeks to hours. The only bottleneck is human review of the 5% ambiguous rules. This is what makes the sufficiency flip economically viable — once gates are encoded, verification is near-free. The resulting rules are packaged into domain gate packages that can be reused across deployments.

Products — How Rules Are Packaged and Sold

Pre-verified gate rule packages for specific compliance domains. Translated from published regulations by the LLM, verified by ACL2, reviewed by a human for the 5% ambiguous edge cases.

  • HIPAA package: $50K/yr
  • SOC2 package: $50K/yr
  • GDPR package: $50K/yr
  • FedRAMP package: $100K/yr
  • Combined enterprise: $250K/yr

Switching costs are high — changing packages means re-verifying the fact store against new rules. The infrastructure lock-in compounds: a hospital at $250K/yr in year one grows to $500K-$1M by year five as more packages are added and the fact store becomes more valuable than the software itself.

20 subscriptions in year one = $1M-$5M. These packages each wrap the social protocol Note primitive into a domain-specific authorization boundary. These packages are verified using the verification appliance and scored by the evaluation harness.