Start with the source. Keep the evidence. Approve before action.
Every action stays connected to its source
The authoritative record for this workflow.
What the source actually supports.
A bounded capability organizes and drafts.
Claims are checked back against the source.
A person sees the uncertainty, exclusions, and risk before deciding what happens next.
HUMAN AUTHORITYAn accountable person approves the result.
The approved result is sent, posted, or applied.
Traceability runs the full length of the chain — nothing downstream loses its link back to the source.
Conversation is not the record
ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, Cursor, Notion, GitHub, Teams, email, databases, and domain applications may participate in the loop. None is SAIOS by itself. Durable truth belongs in the systems explicitly designated to hold it; AI conversations remain working sessions.
SAIOS is the governed structure that determines what is authoritative, what a capability may do, where review occurs, and how an approved outcome becomes institutional memory.