
Most organizations can describe their AI governance. Far fewer can reconstruct what happened when an AI-enabled decision goes wrong. Paper IV of Project Sentinel introduces the Reconstruction Principle and a six-question test for determining whether governance can actually be demonstrated.

The full FairByDesign Doctrine Field Paper carries the complete three-pillar architecture, the five-level Evidence Hierarchy, the Reconstruction Spine and data-layer doctrine, role-by-role implications, Evidence Notes mapping every claim to its source, and full references. It is Paper III of the Project Sentinel series, following The Accountability Gap and The Accountability Control Plane. Download the…