Regulatory disclosures, cryptographically anchored.
A sample of how a federal civilian agency could use The Hive Vault to anchor every AI-assisted determination in a signed Merkle tree with a designed-to-support post-quantum migration path aligned to OMB M-24-10 and NSM-10. No real filing data is shown here.
Engagement parameters
Thesis
Government and regulator-facing programs need an audit chain that survives algorithm rotation, personnel changes, and decade-long retention. The Vault is crypto-agile by construction: today Ed25519, designed-to-support ML-DSA-class signatures and ML-KEM-class transport on epoch boundaries.
What gets signed
Each disclosure, response, or surveillance output generates a receipt with the following bound elements:
- Document hash + filing referenceblake2b-256
- Algorithm epoch + suite descriptorcrypto-agile
- Signing officer DID + delegationdid:hive:officer-bound
- Merkle root + accumulator anchoranchored on Base
Sample stats
Illustrative · not a claimed deploymentSample portfolio: federal civilian agency, AI-assisted determinations across benefits eligibility + procurement scoring on 6.8M annual decisions. Numbers are illustrative; a real Vault is filled in with the agency's own deployment.
Sample evidence packet — anonymized agency determination
Sample data · field shape onlyEach AI-assisted determination emits a signed receipt aligned to OMB M-24-10. Field shape; values illustrative.
| Field | Type | Sample value | Bound to |
|---|---|---|---|
| determination_id | uuid | 01M9P3... | case_id |
| model_version | semver | elig-score/1.8.0 | rubric_id |
| features_hash | blake2b | b1de...42a7 | input record |
| reviewer_did | did:web | did:web:agency-program | delegation |
| disposition | enum | APPROVED · TIER_2 | case_id |
| foia_redaction_map | merkle | root: f4c8...99b1 | case_id |
| sig_alg | alg | ed25519 | issuer DID |
Sample ROI — responding to a GAO / IG audit on AI-assisted determinations
Sample ROI · illustrative mathCost of producing decision-level evidence for a 12-month GAO audit covering 100,000 sampled determinations. Audit cycle count and determination volume are user-adjustable below. Illustrative — independent government cost estimate inputs will differ by agency and program scope.
- Determination receipt · model version · program officer DID — signed at decision-time per OMB M-24-10
- FOIA-ready redaction map bound per receipt; selective disclosure without re-processing full record
- Programmatic receipt retrieval replaces manual log-archeology for GAO and IG sample requests
- Covers 1-cycle GAO audit profile; reduces sample-reconstruction and contractor-support costs
Illustrative model only. For federal procurement, this tool provides a structural estimate. Agencies should produce an independent government cost estimate using their own program data. No implied sole-source justification.
- FOIA redaction map · feature hash · delegation chain depth — full audit trail per determination
- FISMA control alignment: signed receipts serve as evidence artifacts for ATO documentation
- Covers 3-cycle audit profile (GAO + 2 IG reviews); re-determination reserve reduction documented
- NSM-10 / M-24-10 posture: crypto-agility attestation available to AO on demand
Illustrative model only. For federal procurement, this tool provides a structural estimate. Agencies should produce an independent government cost estimate using their own program data. No implied sole-source justification.
- FISMA-aligned crypto-agile audit epoch · ML-DSA-ready sig slot · NSM-10 PQ migration attestation
- OMB M-24-10 + NSM-10 ML-KEM/ML-DSA migration runway: receipts re-verifiable post-2035 at epoch flip
- Covers large civilian agency with 6-12 annual audit cycles across GAO, IG, and state reviews
- Per-determination pq_sig reservation eliminates re-issuance cost when NARA retention window extends past algorithm deprecation
Illustrative model only. For federal procurement, this tool provides a structural estimate. Agencies should produce an independent government cost estimate using their own program data. No implied sole-source justification.
Cost of NOT being on this tier
OMB M-24-10 + NSM-10 require federal systems to achieve ML-KEM / ML-DSA migration by 2030-2035. An agency that cannot attest to crypto-agility today faces: (1) OMB crypto inventory finding, (2) CISA CSRB referral risk if a deprecated algorithm is used on federal records, and (3) per-determination re-issuance cost at epoch flip when a downstream agency cannot verify a signed receipt under a pre-migration algorithm.
Without Hive Vault
With Hive Vault
Per-audit-cycle delta: $2.66M. Sample annualized exposure reduction (slider-computed): $3.0M. Substrate cost runs in low-six-figures.
Post-quantum readiness
For high-security buyersDesigned-to-support · ML-DSA-ready
PQ-readiness aligned to CNSA 2.0 + NSM-10 — federal mandate horizon 2030-2035.
OMB M-24-10 + the National Security Memorandum on Post-Quantum (NSM-10) put federal systems on an explicit migration runway to ML-KEM / ML-DSA. Per-record pq_sig reservation means an agency can attest to crypto-agility on day-one and execute the epoch flip per-domain without invalidating prior-year determinations.
Sample receipt
This is the structure of the signed receipt your evidence room produces. Every field is verifiable offline against the issuer's public key.
Activation
In a real Vault this section is a live deeplink. The buyer pays USDC on Base; the receipt above is signed at confirmation; the dashboard URL + tenant API key issue inline. FedRAMP authorization status: In-Process / Pursuing Agency ATO. Contact sales for current authorization documentation.
activate · USDC · 0x15184Bf50B3d3F52b60434f8942b7D52F2eB436E · ERC-681 · evidence bundle attached
How a real Vault differs from this sample
A real Vault is invite-only and contains the actual buyer's name, the negotiated economic terms, the live activation deeplink against a specific tx, and the signed receipt chain. Each Vault is gated by a six-word passphrase issued at intake.