Scope statement
What Cognitiva AV is, what it is not, what its records do and do not establish, and where responsibility sits. Written for the authority's counsel as much as for its analysts.
Cognitiva AV is a system of record — not a legal adviser, not a compliance officer, and not a regulatory guarantee. Its signals are outputs of rule evaluations, not official findings of compliance or non-compliance. The regulated agency — the CognitivaOS tenant, not the reviewing authority — retains full and undiminished legal responsibility for its compliance obligations. Cognitiva AV produces the records that regulators require; it does not replace legal counsel, and use of this portal creates no advisory relationship.
This framing is mandatory wherever Cognitiva AV is described to an authority, in documentation, or in any go-to-market material, per Module AV v1.0 §12. It may be paraphrased but not weakened. Everything below elaborates it; nothing below limits it.
Cognitiva AV is the read-only authority portal to the execution record produced by CognitivaOS. As agencies and creators run a campaign, CognitivaOS captures each approval, disclosure, and payment event automatically, at the moment it occurs, and locks it into an independently held, tamper-evident record. Cognitiva AV is where an admitted authority reads that record for the campaigns within its own jurisdiction and admitted regulatory domains. Its function is evidentiary: to preserve and present what happened, exactly as captured.
- That the recorded events — approvals, disclosures, payments — were captured at the stated times, attributed to the stated actors.
- That the record has not been altered since capture: each event is timestamped and cryptographically signed at the moment it occurs.
- That the record is held in independent custody — neither the regulated agency nor the creator can edit, correct, or annotate it after the fact. No portal role can either: every authority role is read-only by design.
- The truth of the underlying content. A signed record proves the event was recorded and unaltered — not that a disclosure was legally sufficient, a licence valid, or a payment lawful.
- Completeness. The record contains what CognitivaOS captured. Conduct outside the instrumented tools is outside the record.
- Admissibility or evidentiary weight in any specific proceeding, which each authority must assess under its own rules of evidence.
A signal renders as CLEAR only when the rule set behind it has completed four-eyes attestation — a constraint enforced in the portal's rendering code itself, not editorial policy. Every rule set is currently in DRAFT and unattested, so every signal today carries an explicit DRAFT banner. The portal is built to show an honest DRAFT rather than a false CLEAR, and no signal should be relied upon as more than what its banner states it to be.
Full legal responsibility for compliance rests, undiminished, with the regulated agency — the CognitivaOS tenant whose campaign the record describes. It does not shift to Cognitiva Systems Inc. because Cognitiva holds the record, and it does not shift to the reviewing authority because the authority read it. An authority's access to, or reliance on, a Cognitiva AV record neither enlarges nor reduces any party's obligations under applicable law.