Public teaser
Mediated legitimacy, charging, and governance at the seam
A governance research protocol focused on legitimacy, seams of mediation, and accountability under scrutiny.
The Sealed Card Protocol is one of the clearest bridges between the site’s critical and governance-facing halves. Here it is presented as a teaser for a larger protocol: a framework for analyzing what happens when mediation becomes perceptible and evaluation shifts from the artifact itself to the pathway that produced it.
That makes the protocol especially relevant to AI governance. It turns legitimacy, traceability, and proof-regime mismatch into practical questions of accountability rather than abstract debates about authenticity.