TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION
BeaconGuard Technical Documentation
BeaconGuard independently authorizes consequential AI actions before execution. It evaluates the specific action being attempted under customer-approved governing policy and preserves the decision evidence needed for later verification.
The technical architecture is organized around Govern · Authorize · Verify. Start with the product boundary and system architecture, then go deeper only where needed.
START HERE
Orientation
- Product Overview
What BeaconGuard authorizes and where the boundary sits. - System Architecture
Govern · Authorize · Verify.
AUTHORIZATION
Policy and runtime
- Policy Authority
How approved controls become production authority. - Enforcement Runtime
Exact-action authorization and one-time execution authority.
ASSURANCE
Evidence and verification
- Evidence and Verification
Decision evidence, integrity, and reconstruction. - Sample Decision Record
Illustrative authorization evidence.
DEPLOYMENT & RESPONSIBILITY
Integration boundaries
- Deployment and Integration
Where the boundary sits and how systems integrate. - Control Responsibility Matrix
Who owns identity, authorization, execution, and evidence responsibilities.
SECURITY
Threat and trust analysis
- Threat Model
Primary threats, responses, assumptions, and residual risk. - Data-Flow Trust Analysis
Trust boundaries and authority transitions.