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Explore the argument.
Examine the evidence.
The White Paper, research, design principles, and films behind The Fleks Project, gathered in one place.
THE WHITE PAPER
An Open Foundation
for the AI-Native Enterprise
The full case for a trusted enterprise knowledge plane: its economic motivation, architecture, first practical application, and invitation to build an open movement.
Read the White Paper ↗52 pages · Main argument and supporting appendices
The academic foundation
Authoritative Stability Under Semantic Drift in AI-Native Systems of Record. An unpublished draft exploring the formal separation of interpretation and authority under stated assumptions. Appendix F maps those concepts to Fleks.
Read the draft ↗Design tenets
The invariants behind the architecture: preserve accepted meaning, keep the core schema-literate and domain-blind, and make authority explicit.
Read Appendix B ↗Governance
How proposed and accepted knowledge, schema, and policies relate—and how enterprise authority differs from project stewardship.
Read Appendix C ↗POC proof points
What controlled journeys demonstrate, how evidence is assessed, and which broader claims remain to be qualified.
Read Appendix D ↗POC codebase outline
A guide to the implementation’s responsibilities and boundaries, connecting the architectural ideas to a working codebase.
Read Appendix E ↗The explainer collection
Explore the foundation, then follow it through five kinds of work. Every film has captions and a transcript.
Fleks in 77 seconds
A brief introduction to connected context and reviewed knowledge.
Watch the film →The enterprise overview
Five perspectives on a shared foundation for lasting enterprise knowledge.
Watch the film →A few terms to orient you
- Trusted knowledge plane
- The proposed independent layer preserving accepted context, meaning, and authority across applications and agents.
- FleksScene
- A connected view of relevant objects and relationships that makes a situation understandable and reviewable.
- Schema
- The governed definitions of object types, attributes, and relationship types used to interpret work.
- Acceptance
- An authorized decision that establishes proposed content as part of the enterprise’s accepted record.
- Provenance
- The connections from a conclusion or decision to its sources, definitions, and governing history.
- Immutable history
- A preserved record of prior evidence and decisions to which corrections and new understanding can be added.
From the White Paper: Appendix H: the complete glossary.