A platform that plugs into the customer's infrastructure and turns a regulated telemetry stream into four things at once — signed, error-bounded, queryable without decompression and complete. Each piece of the toolkit is one plane; the product is what stitches them together.
Today a customer gets, at most, one or two of these properties — never all four, and almost never with a certificate a regulator can run on its own.
Taps the stream from Kafka / broker / historian / ROS2 — it doesn't sit in the critical path. Their normal storage stays; the plane emits the signed archive alongside it.
TVE ≤ 1% in IEEE C37.118, half a cent in freight, sensor tolerance in the datasheet, recall floor in the SLA. We don't argue the number — it's already law or contract. Bring-your-own-ε.
The guarantee can't be "trust us" — that would betray the very thesis: proof, not confidence. An open-source binary the regulator, the auditor or the counterparty runs on its own to check signatures and bounds.
One stream in; five guarantees out. What's measured against an installed incumbent comes with a number; the rest is a built primitive.
Compresses with |error| ≤ ε guaranteed per sample, verified on decode. Circular channels (angle, heading); GOP index.
Every block stamped with Ed25519 and committed to a Merkle tree. Tampering breaks the signature — it's the "tamper-evident archive" the rule requires, verifiable by a third party.
Certified aggregates ±ε over the compressed data, without decompressing. An interval that contains the truth: VWAP, compliance, climate envelope.
Completeness: finds every occurrence of a pattern, zero false negatives. Certified range and k-NN, out-of-core.
Counting and heavy-hitters robust under an adaptive adversary. Surprise as a byproduct of compression detects staleness and anomalies for free.
The ε already lives in a document
Buyer is compliance, not performance
Incumbent gives confidence, not proof
High-volume data, retained for years
A third party must verify
When 4–5 of these hold, the platform is an obligation, not a convenience.
| Vertical | ε comes from | Planes that light up | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI platform metering · RAG · training-data audit |
SLA / quota / recall floor | Watch · Search · Seal | measured |
| Market surveillance CAT · MiFID II / MAR |
Rule 613, best-execution | all five | thesis · strong map |
| Games / replay-telemetry | tick / perceptual | Ingest · Answer | measured |
| Synchrophasor / PMU power grid |
TVE ≤ 1% (IEEE C37.118) | Ingest · Answer · Seal | thesis |
| Robotics / ROS2 active lead (Instor) |
sensor tolerance | Ingest · Search · Seal | stepwise plan |
| Cold chain · AMI · dams · EV battery | health / safety / reg standard | Ingest · Seal · Answer | thesis |
| Freight gwtFrete · 2B quotes |
half a cent (step price) | Ingest · Answer | thesis |
| Meteorology / certified geo | field tolerance | Search · Answer | measuredSZ3/ZFP home turf |
The only tier already measured against an installed incumbent (Redis 8.8, hnswlib). Acute, current pain; validates three planes without leaning on the "in-RAM loses" caveat.
The only place where the entire platform becomes a legal mandate. Use it as the top story — but treat it as thesis until a pilot with real tick data.
The two cheapest Ingest/Answer proofs to close next — one already measured (CS2 GOTV), the other with the ε written into the standard (TVE).
Without completeness, without years of retention, without an adversary, without a third party verifying — an argsort or an in-RAM FAISS wins, and we've measured that (the imgemb lesson). The plane only pays off where the certificate is the deliverable. That's focus, not a bug: it turns down the wrong verticals.
Bring the ε that's already in your document — the standard, the contract, the SLA. We'll show which of the five planes lights up first and set up a pilot in your VPC.