What you keep after the pilot. The RIL specification of your own policies, mandates and rules — in deterministic, machine-readable form — is yours permanently. Historical EDGABLE / NOT EDGABLE outputs and Authorization Records are yours as documented analysis.
What ClearState retains. The decision authorization pipeline — the runtime that evaluates new decisions deterministically against the specification — is licensed by ClearState. Continued deterministic authorization on future decisions requires a license.
No lock-in. No surprise. If you choose not to license, you walk away with full ownership of the specification and the historical analysis. The pipeline does not continue running.
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ClearState is a pre-execution decision authorization layer. Before a regulated decision is taken, ClearState evaluates whether it can be defended — against the customer's own mandates, policies, and ownership structure — and produces a clear yes/no result with a retrievable record.
It is not a risk engine, a scoring system, or a compliance checker. The output is binary: the decision is authorized, or it is blocked with one specific reason.
ClearState was originally built for invoice substitution — a graph-based novation mechanic that allows a payable to be substituted before settlement, deterministically and with a verifiable authorization chain. The pre-execution authorization layer (the architecture you see in the scenarios) was developed as the gate that makes substitution safe at scale.
The same architecture — Step 1 decisionability, Step 2 rules & mandate, signed Authorization Records, deterministic replay — applies to any regulated decision where authorization must be defensible at the moment of decision rather than reconstructed afterwards.
The graph-based substitution mechanic is covered by patent application SE 2515467-5, filed December 2025 by VND Scandinavia AB (Stockholm, Sweden) through Zacco Sweden AB.
VND Scandinavia AB · Stockholm, Sweden. Patent counsel: Zacco Sweden AB. Contact: magnus@clearstatenetwork.com.
EDGABLE or NOT EDGABLE. Produces the Authorization Record.Plain mode label: "Output". Nothing executes downstream without CRSL authorization.EDGABLE = decision authorized to execute. NOT EDGABLE = decision not authorized; execution is blocked.Plain mode labels: "ALLOWED" / "NOT ALLOWED".