whale

The declaration

One readable file — ontology.yaml — says what your business is, what may change it, and who may do it. The engine enforces exactly that, nothing more.

  1. One business, one process, one folder.

    Not a stack, not an account, not a tab — a folder you can point at. Everything the business is — record, rules, files, keys — lives inside it.

  2. The record is permanent.

    Every sale, promise, and change is appended, never edited, never erased. History can be read; it cannot be rewritten.

  3. One way in.

    Your AI, your apps, your customers, and your devices all run the same commands, under the same rules, onto the same record.

  4. What isn't declared is refused.

    Unlisted capability fails closed — for people and AIs alike. The refusal names the reason.

  5. The rulebook is one readable document.

    It says what exists, what may change it, and who may do it — in your words, not in code.

  6. Anything with consequence waits for you.

    Routine work runs on its own; the rest parks in a queue until you approve it, and your decision is recorded.

  7. Facts are forever; the derived is disposable.

    Reports, totals, and views can always be rebuilt from the record — so they never disagree with reality.

  8. The AI is an operator, never an owner.

    It runs commands with the authority you granted, and no more. It proposes; you approve.

  9. Your data trains no one.

    Nothing leaves the folder to train someone else's model.

  10. Leaving is copying the folder.

    The whole business moves with you — to another disk, another machine, another decade. That is what owning it means.