Eligibility Rules
Determine whether a certification target satisfies the minimum conditions required to begin formal evaluation.
Suite · Methodology
Certification Logic
Certification Logic defines the decision rules used to transform evidence, evaluation, and scoring into objective certification outcomes.
Rather than relying upon subjective judgment, certification decisions follow documented logical conditions that can be reviewed, reproduced, and implemented consistently by both people and software.
Evidence Rules
Verify that required evidence exists, meets integrity requirements, and satisfies the applicable evidence methodology.
Evaluation Rules
Apply evaluation criteria consistently to all submitted evidence, producing repeatable assessment results.
Decision Rules
Translate evaluation outcomes into certification decisions, including pass, conditional pass, fail, suspension, revocation, expiration, or renewal.
Consistency Rules
Ensure equivalent evidence evaluated under equivalent standards produces equivalent certification outcomes.
Exception Handling
Document how incomplete evidence, conflicting information, appeals, corrections, and exceptional circumstances are handled without compromising methodological integrity.
Machine Execution
Certification Logic should be expressed in a structured form that can eventually be executed by software while remaining understandable to human reviewers.
Future Automation
Provides the foundation for deterministic certification, automated verification, AI-assisted review, and interoperable certification engines.
Methodology Role
Certification Logic serves as the reasoning layer of the Satoshium Methodology. It transforms standards, evidence, evaluation criteria, and scoring into consistent certification decisions while preserving transparency, repeatability, and long-term institutional trust.
Certification logic should explain every decision well enough that an
independent reviewer—or a future software implementation—can reach the
same conclusion using the same evidence.