The Eight Gates

In one line

Eight questions a system has to answer, in writing, before it is allowed to act in a business.

Picture it

Pre-flight checks. Pilots don't skip them because the plane looks fine.

Under the hood

Decision, boundaries, permissions, grounding, actions, evaluation, economics, operations. Each gate is a question, a reason it matters, an artefact it produces, and a condition that fails it. You can run the check on your own system in a few minutes.