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document_type: High-Density Index
hdi_id: HDI-002
title: GovAIaaS.com High-Density Index
version: 2.0.0
status: current
issued_date: '2026-07-25'
language: en-AU
canonical_uri: https://govaiaas.com/HDI-002.json
alternate_serialisations:
- https://govaiaas.com/HDI-002.yaml
- https://govaiaas.com/HDI-002.txt
publisher:
  name: Walter Shepherd / SyncLogic Systems
  site: https://govaiaas.com
manifest_dependency: https://govaiaas.com/AI-MANIFEST.json
purpose: Help people and AI systems reconstruct what exists within the GovAIaaS knowledge architecture.
hdi_answer: What exists?
governing_question: What is this AI-supported claim, mechanism, analysis or decision output allowed to do—right
  now, for the stated purpose, evidence and consequence level?
governing_postulate: AI may expand possibilities and accelerate analysis, but it does not grant its own authority.
  Permission to rely must be earned through registered evidence, transparent reasoning, tested alternatives, explicit
  uncertainty and authorised human judgement.
registers:
  concepts:
  - id: C-GOV-AI
    name: Governed AI
    definition: AI-supported work subject to explicit scope, evidence, challenge, uncertainty, traceability and
      reliance controls.
  - id: C-THINKING-PARTNER
    name: AI as a Thinking Partner
    definition: Human-led use of AI to widen exploration while retaining human judgement and accountability.
  - id: C-SCOPE-LOCK
    name: Scope Lock
    definition: Control that fixes the task, boundaries, audience, authority and prohibited uses before substantive
      reasoning.
  - id: C-EVIDENCE-REGISTER
    name: Evidence Registration
    definition: Recording sources, authority, assumptions, gaps and transformations used in an output.
  - id: C-WEAKEST-LINK
    name: Weakest Necessary Component
    definition: The necessary dependency whose failure most weakens the conclusion.
  - id: C-PTR
    name: Permission-to-Rely
    definition: A bounded judgement about what an output is sufficiently supported to influence for a stated purpose
      and consequence level.
  - id: C-MECH
    name: Candidate Mechanism
    definition: A provisional causal explanation generated for comparison and testing, not a confirmed mechanism.
  - id: C-HUMAN-AUTH
    name: Human Authority
    definition: The principle that AI cannot approve its own work or grant its own authority.
  - id: C-KNOWLEDGE-STATUS
    name: Knowledge Status
    definition: Classification of material as REGISTERED, INFERENCE, EXTERNAL, UNKNOWN or CONFLICT.
  pages:
  - id: PAGE-HOME
    path: index.html
    canonical: https://govaiaas.com/
    primary_question: What is governed AI as a service?
    purpose: Orientation and conversion
    audience: general visitor
    difficulty: introductory
    status: current
  - id: PAGE-CAP
    path: capabilities.html
    canonical: https://govaiaas.com/capabilities
    primary_question: What can governed AI do?
    purpose: Capability selection
    audience: decision-maker / practitioner
    difficulty: introductory
    status: current
  - id: PAGE-HOW
    path: how-it-works.html
    canonical: https://govaiaas.com/how-it-works
    primary_question: How do you govern an AI decision workflow?
    purpose: Method explanation
    audience: practitioner / auditor
    difficulty: intermediate
    status: current
  - id: PAGE-APP
    path: applications.html
    canonical: https://govaiaas.com/applications
    primary_question: Where can governed AI be applied?
    purpose: Application discovery
    audience: decision-maker / domain expert
    difficulty: introductory
    status: current
  - id: PAGE-INNOV
    path: innovation.html
    canonical: https://govaiaas.com/innovation
    primary_question: Can AI help discover candidate mechanisms?
    purpose: Innovation method
    audience: researcher / analyst
    difficulty: advanced
    status: current
  - id: PAGE-CASE
    path: case-studies.html
    canonical: https://govaiaas.com/case-studies
    primary_question: How is GovAIaaS applied to real questions?
    purpose: Case-study hub
    audience: all audiences
    difficulty: intermediate
    status: current
  - id: PAGE-CLIMATE
    path: climate-claim-audit.html
    canonical: https://govaiaas.com/climate-claim-audit
    primary_question: How do you audit a climate claim?
    purpose: Worked climate case
    audience: climate reader / auditor
    difficulty: advanced
    status: current
  - id: PAGE-RES
    path: resources.html
    canonical: https://govaiaas.com/resources
    primary_question: What AI-readable resources are available?
    purpose: Knowledge resource hub
    audience: AI system / practitioner
    difficulty: intermediate
    status: current
  - id: PAGE-VIS
    path: visual-library.html
    canonical: https://govaiaas.com/visual-library
    primary_question: How can this be applied visually?
    purpose: Visual application layer
    audience: all audiences
    difficulty: introductory
    status: current
  - id: PAGE-ABOUT
    path: about.html
    canonical: https://govaiaas.com/about
    primary_question: Who developed GovAIaaS and SyncLogic?
    purpose: Provenance and credibility
    audience: all audiences
    difficulty: introductory
    status: current
  - id: PAGE-JOIN
    path: support-books.html
    canonical: https://govaiaas.com/support-books
    primary_question: How can a visitor join the knowledge movement?
    purpose: Books, coffee and honest reviews
    audience: reader / supporter
    difficulty: introductory
    status: current
  - id: PAGE-TERMS
    path: terms.html
    canonical: https://govaiaas.com/terms
    primary_question: What are the professional boundaries?
    purpose: Reliance constraints
    audience: all audiences
    difficulty: required
    status: current
  methods:
  - id: M-GWF
    name: Governed Workflow
    stages:
    - Define
    - Scope Lock
    - Register
    - Explore
    - Analyse
    - Challenge
    - Assure
    - Operationalise
  - id: M-MD
    name: Mechanism Discovery
    stages:
    - Hypothesis
    - Evidence
    - Candidate mechanisms
    - Alternative comparison
    - Audit and entropy check
    - Permission-to-Rely
  - id: M-CCA
    name: Climate Claim Audit
    stages:
    - Claim decomposition
    - Thinking Hats
    - Transformation depth
    - Alternatives
    - Uncertainty audit
    - Weakest component
    - Permission-to-Rely
  - id: M-MAI
    name: Multi-AI Comparison
    stages:
    - Common task
    - Common template
    - Independent runs
    - Convergence
    - Divergence
    - Repeated weak links
    - Human judgement
  instruments:
  - id: I-AI-MANIFEST
    name: AI-MANIFEST
    purpose: Entry point and loading control
  - id: I-HDI
    name: HDI-002
    purpose: Registers what exists
  - id: I-HDIMM
    name: HDIMM-003
    purpose: Maps how the parts connect
  - id: I-VKL
    name: VKL-004
    purpose: Maps how visual knowledge can be applied
  - id: I-PTR
    name: Permission-to-Rely Assessment
    purpose: States the allowed use and limits of an output
  applications:
  - id: A-POLICY
    name: Policy and Regulation
  - id: A-RESEARCH
    name: Research and Analysis
  - id: A-STRATEGY
    name: Strategy and Investment
  - id: A-GOV
    name: Governance and Assurance
  - id: A-INNOV
    name: Innovation Discovery
  - id: A-IP
    name: Intellectual Property Assurance
    external_site: https://govipassurance.com
  audit_domains:
  - id: D-CLIMATE
    name: Climate claims
  - id: D-POLICY
    name: Policy claims
  - id: D-IP
    name: Intellectual property claims
  - id: D-RESEARCH
    name: Research claims
  operating_architectures:
  - id: OS-GOVAI
    name: GovAIaaS capability architecture
  - id: OS-SYNCLOGIC
    name: SyncLogic governance architecture
    external_site: https://synclogic.systems
  - id: OS-GOVENG
    name: GovAI Engineering
    external_site: https://govaiengineering.com
  visual_artefacts:
  - id: V-THINK
    title: AI as a Thinking Partner
    asset: assets/ai-as-a-thinking-partner.png
    answers: What changes when AI is used as a governed thinking partner?
  - id: V-SKILLS
    title: GovAIaaS Specialist AI Skills
    asset: assets/govaiaas-skills.png
    answers: Which specialist capabilities can be combined?
  - id: V-MECH
    title: Candidate Mechanisms Innovation
    asset: assets/candidate-mechanisms-innovation.jpg
    answers: How can AI help generate and test candidate mechanisms?
  - id: V-CLAIMS
    title: One Climate Claim, Many Claims
    asset: assets/one-climate-claim-many-claims.png
    answers: What component claims are hidden inside one climate statement?
  - id: V-4AI
    title: One Climate Claim, Four AIs, One Audit Template
    asset: assets/one-climate-claim-four-ais-one-audit-template.png
    answers: How can multiple AI audits be compared using one template?
  books_and_external_resources:
  - id: B-AI
    title: 'Rethinking AI Reasoning: From Prompts to Governed Thinking'
    author: Walter Shepherd
    amazon_search: https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=Rethinking+AI+Reasoning+Walter+Shepherd&i=stripbooks
    site: https://rethink-ai-reasoning.info
  - id: B-CLIMATE
    title: Rethinking the Causes of Climate Change Using Three Thinking Hats
    author: Walter Shepherd
    amazon_search: https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=Rethinking+the+Causes+of+Climate+Change+Using+Three+Thinking+Hats+Walter+Shepherd&i=stripbooks
    site: https://rethink-climate-causes.info
  - id: EXT-SUBSTACK
    title: GovAIaaS articles
    url: https://govaiaas.substack.com
  - id: EXT-BMC
    title: Join via Buy Me a Coffee
    url: https://buymeacoffee.com/govaiaas
relationship_graph:
- from: I-AI-MANIFEST
  relation: loads_before
  to: I-HDI
- from: I-HDI
  relation: establishes_entities_for
  to: I-HDIMM
- from: I-HDIMM
  relation: navigates_to
  to: I-VKL
- from: C-GOV-AI
  relation: requires
  to: C-SCOPE-LOCK
- from: C-GOV-AI
  relation: requires
  to: C-EVIDENCE-REGISTER
- from: C-GOV-AI
  relation: culminates_in
  to: C-PTR
- from: C-MECH
  relation: must_be_tested_by
  to: M-MD
- from: M-CCA
  relation: uses
  to: C-WEAKEST-LINK
- from: M-MAI
  relation: does_not_replace
  to: C-HUMAN-AUTH
- from: PAGE-INNOV
  relation: demonstrated_by
  to: PAGE-CLIMATE
- from: PAGE-RES
  relation: contains
  to: I-AI-MANIFEST
- from: PAGE-VIS
  relation: implements
  to: I-VKL
machine_query_hints:
- Find the page that owns a search question.
- List methods related to a concept.
- Trace an application back to its governing controls.
- Distinguish registered page content from AI inference.
machine_start_prompt: Load AI-MANIFEST.json first. Then use HDI-002 to identify the current entity and page IDs
  before loading task-relevant resources.
