BLACKSWAN Estate · Governance Index
Sponsor: Mamadou Ly, Founder, Managing Partner & CEO Programme: BLACKSWAN Enterprise Digital Estate (BEDE) Posture: STANDBY · IN-MEMORY ONLY · HOLD · NO-GO
This index is the single entry point to the estate's governance canon. It exists so that a new engineer knows which document to open for which question.
The five-layer governance stack
Authority flows downward. Each layer derives its authority from the layer above it.
| Layer | Name | Answers the question | Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Estate Canon | What is constitutionally true across the whole estate? (sponsor line, postures, the 16 §9 prohibitions, forbidden phrases) | Estate Canon |
| 2 | BSRA · Reference Architecture | How is the estate architected technically? | BSRA |
| 3 | BGXS · Gateway Experience Standard | What is the Gateway experience canon? | BGXS v1.0 |
| 4 | BEDL · Enterprise Design Language | What are the shared visual, motion, and interaction primitives? | BEDL v0.1 |
| 5 | Implementation Standards | What engineering discipline binds the code? | Implementation Standards |
The Gateway application implements Layers 3–5 against the tokens defined in BEDL and the experience defined in BGXS, under the constitutional authority of the Estate Canon.
Governance traceability
Estate Canon → BSRA → BGXS v1.0 → BEDL v0.1 → ADR register → ARS-001
constitutional arch. gateway design decisions scope freeze
- Estate Canon — constitutional baseline. Its 16 §9 prohibitions apply universally.
- BSRA — reference architecture. §§1–2 complete; §§3–18 SKELETON, graduation deferred (see ADR-001).
- BGXS v1.0 — Gateway Experience Standard. Sponsor-locked · SHIPPED via PR #11.
- BEDL v0.1 — Enterprise Design Language draft. ARS-001 reviewable. v1.0 lock is a separate governance PR.
- ADR register — ADR-001 through ADR-007, filed at ARS-001.
- ARS-001 — Architecture Review Session 001. Signed decision log · Release 1.0 scope frozen 09:23 BST · Sunday 12 July 2026.
Change discipline
Every governance change lands via a PR with an ADR reference explaining why, an impact assessment naming affected planes, and sponsor sign-off in the PR body. When BGXS and BEDL appear to conflict, BGXS wins for Gateway-specific surfaces and BEDL wins for cross-estate primitives; when in doubt, file an ADR.