KFAI-RS-001 · Research Governance

Research that strengthens the discipline without inventing authority.

KlearFlowAI public research is governed by a simple rule: evidence may test and improve the discipline, but publication collateral does not silently rewrite the Canon.

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Evidence classes

Five evidence classes, one claim-discipline standard.

E1

Primary empirical evidence

Original datasets, telemetry, surveys, experiments, field measurements, or directly observed operational records.

E2

High-authority secondary evidence

Peer-reviewed work, government sources, standards bodies, and major academic research institutions.

E3

Credible industry evidence

Named research from established firms, technology providers, consultancies, or professional bodies with disclosed methodology.

E4

KlearFlowAI field evidence

ANRA™ assessments, OIM™ maps, Architecture Identity™ analyses, implementation records, audits, and documented field studies.

E5

Analytical inference

KlearFlowAI interpretation derived from evidence and explicitly labeled as interpretation, thesis, hypothesis, or implication.

Claim discipline

Fact, finding, interpretation, hypothesis, doctrine, and standard are not interchangeable.

Every formal publication must make clear whether a statement is directly observed, reported by an external source, interpreted by KlearFlowAI, proposed for testing, defined by governed doctrine, or approved as a standard. Correlation and self-report evidence are not described as causal proof.

Publication classes

A research institution needs more than one content format.

Executive Briefs

Category-defining material for executives and institutional leaders.

State Reports

Periodic evidence-led reports on the condition of AI-Native organizational development.

Research Notes

Focused analysis of emerging concepts, datasets, or observations.

Methodology Papers

Formal descriptions of assessments, benchmarks, scoring, mapping, and analytical methods.

Standards Proposals

Proposed professional standards that remain non-binding until governed approval.

Field Reports

Documented implementation, audit, pilot, assessment, and transformation evidence.

Research-to-Canon loop

Canon → Research Question → Evidence → Analysis → Publication → Field Testing → Governance Review

Only the final governed step may modify authoritative doctrine. This preserves two things at once: the discipline can evolve with evidence, and public research cannot accidentally redefine it.

Publication metadata

Formal research is versioned and attributable.

Every formal KlearFlowAI research publication carries a permanent publication ID, version, date, author, publisher, steward, publication class, Canon basis, research status, canonical URL, methodology note, references, and version history. Superseded work remains part of the historical record.

AI assistance

AI may accelerate research production. It does not replace evidence verification or authorship accountability.

The discipline is explicitly AI-Native, so AI assistance is expected. What is not delegated away is responsibility for source verification, claim labeling, methodological disclosure, version control, and the decision to publish.