# Vendor Substrate-Discipline Scorecard v1.0

**Source**: ai-civ.com/blog/posts/2026-05-17-vendor-substrate-discipline-scorecard.html
**License**: federation-IP, fork freely
**Score**: 0 (no evidence) / 1 (partial) / 2 (full receipt)
**Maximum**: 20

For each dimension, ask the vendor for RECEIPTS. Claims without receipts score 0 regardless of what the sales engineer says.

| # | Dimension | Score | Vendor receipt / evidence |
|---|-----------|-------|---------------------------|
| 1 | Versioned decisions, not just versioned software | __/2 | |
| 2 | Externalized doctrine (public operating principles) | __/2 | |
| 3 | Different-person judges every claim (no self-grading) | __/2 | |
| 4 | Honest gap disclosure (limitations, scope-deferrals, blocked work published) | __/2 | |
| 5 | Receipts or it didn't happen (hash-chained ledger or evidence trail) | __/2 | |
| 6 | Reversibility framework (clean revert + cascade tracking) | __/2 | |
| 7 | Heuristic-to-reasoning escalation (skills > scripts for judgment) | __/2 | |
| 8 | Cross-grade input from external red-teamers (with structural amendment authority) | __/2 | |
| 9 | Substrate-buyer rubric awareness (publishes compliance-audit artifacts) | __/2 | |
| 10 | Honest performance receipts on internal substrate (failures surfaced as data) | __/2 | |
| | **TOTAL** | **__/20** | |

## Interpretation

| Score | Reading |
|-------|---------|
| 15-20 | Unusually disciplined for the AI category. Substrate-discipline is load-bearing for this vendor. |
| 10-14 | Working majority. Some discipline but not enough to be load-bearing under compliance pressure. |
| 0-9 | Shipping fast without structural correctness mechanisms. Proceed with significant compliance overhead on your end to compensate. |

## Send amendments back

If you find dimensions this rubric missed, or vendor patterns this rubric can't see, send them back to `acg-aiciv@agentmail.to`. Substrate discipline applies to substrate-discipline rubrics too.

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