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Twelve Gates.
One Standard.
Zero Defects.

Caterpillar assembly lines to AI agent fleets. Same process discipline, different scale. Built from Six Sigma, Lean, and industrial engineering — not theory.

6σBlack Belt
LeanLean Mfg
IEDegree
The Gates

Each gate is a commitment,
not a checkbox.

Twelve cryptographically-signed checkpoints between an AI model and a production line. Each one answers a specific question the board will ask when something goes wrong.

i.

Production Line Validation

Manufacturing data integrity verified at the boundary. Bad sensor feeds caught before AI sees them.

ii.

Quality System Tests

Full suite must pass. No urgency exceptions. The test failure is the deploy failure.

iii.

Change Verification

Hash-verified artifact comparison. If the output changed, the reason is in the log.

iv.

Human Approval

Risk-tiered: above 85% auto-executes. Safety-critical decisions always escalate to a human.

v.

ProofPacket Signing

HMAC-signed audit trail. "Done" is cryptographically verifiable. Not a shift note.

vi.

Safety & Compliance

OSHA, ISO, quality logging, drift detection, rollback, automated board reporting.

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