Research
Publications
Explore RJV’s research and engineering publications. Browse by subject, read each paper and follow the work behind our systems.
Publications
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Alert rules should be versioned, not edited
Advisory
Why a rule that raised an alert must stay readable, and how the RJV screening engine does it.
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Cellulose Computing
White paper
Cellulose computing proposes a substrate model where computation is bound to a physical medium with verifiable properties. This paper explores the theoretical framework and its application to...
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Deterministic Computing Architecture
White paper
Deterministic computing architecture ensures every output is a pure function of its inputs. This paper presents the hash-chain verification method, the content-addressed caching layer, and the...
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Engineering notes: RJV Deploy and the five-phase delivery
Guide
This article documents the engineering principles that govern the RJV Platform. These are not aspirations. They are rules that every commit, every deployment...
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Handling data subject requests inside a deadline
Guide
How RJV records a data subject request and carries it to a closed state.
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Industrial Causal Automation
White paper
Industrial causal automation applies directed acyclic graphs to process control, ensuring every action is traceable to a measured input. This paper presents the graph model and a case study in...
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Our engineering doctrine, in one page
Guide
Audit before acting. Own the whole stack. Make the system legible. A short statement of how we build.
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Post-Probabilistic Security Systems
White paper
Post-probabilistic security moves from confidence scores to deterministic verification via tamper-evident audit chains. This paper presents the threat model, chain structure, and measured overhead...
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Rate limiting follows the credential, not the address
Advisory
Why a limit follows the thing being guessed rather than the address it came from, and how RJV applies it.
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Retention that deletes
Guide
How RJV deletes retained records when their retention ends.
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RJV-DD-2026-06-19 r1 — the Determinism Doctrine is published
Release record
The RJV Determinism Doctrine (RJV-DD-2026-06-19 r1) is now published. This document defines the engineering principles that govern every system RJV builds an...
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Saving documents so they can be found again
Guide
How RJV stores and searches an account's own documents.
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The deployer model and the honesty of the AGI naming
Guide
This article documents the engineering principles that govern the RJV Platform. These are not aspirations. They are rules that every commit, every deployment... — unique perspective on The Deployer...
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The Unified Model Equation
White paper
The Unified Model Equation expresses inputs, computation, and outputs as a single verifiable function producing bit-identical results. This paper derives the equation and demonstrates...
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When owning infrastructure is the better decision
Guide
A practical comparison between owning infrastructure and renting external platforms, based on operating constraints and evidence.
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Why we hash passwords with bcrypt
Advisory
How RJV stores passwords, and why it has not moved to Argon2id.
Last reviewed 22 October 2026.