Alexander Barrett

The Missing Evidence Layer of the UN 2030 Agenda: How Decision Basis Records could make institutional accountability portable

The Missing Evidence Layer of the UN 2030 Agenda examines a gap in the infrastructure used when consequential institutional decisions cross organizational, national, or machine boundaries. Institutions have increasingly shared ways to establish identity, move money, and exchange...

Signed, Not Seen: The evidence nobody is required to carry

Between September 2025 and April 2026, five specifications made identity, authority, intent, and payment authorization portable in agentic commerce. Read the schemas rather than the announcements, and the same two things are missing from every one of them: what a human did with a...

Boundary Blindness Under Artificial Intelligence: Early Cross-Industry Findings on the Missing Decision-Evidence Layer

Artificial intelligence does not create the gap this research traces across regulated markets. It converts that gap from a chronic condition the market tolerated for decades into an acute one it cannot tolerate. When a decision crosses a boundary between two organizations, two so...