WITNESS STANDARD — CANONICAL PUBLIC FACTS Name: WITNESS Standard Product name: WITNESS Category: Evidence-backed creator intelligence Website: https://witnessstandard.com/ Launch date: August 20, 2026 Tagline: Give your AI a Witness. Functional promise: Connect your world. WITNESS finds what matters. Outcome line: See the opportunity before everyone else does. Trust line: Know what the evidence supports. Core promise: See what happened. Understand what it means. Know what the evidence supports. Canonical definition: WITNESS Standard is evidence-backed creator intelligence that connects authorized creator signals, understands material change, surfaces opportunities, supports evidence-backed next moves, and learns from subsequent outcomes while preserving the reasoning path behind findings. Creator intelligence loop: CONNECT → UNDERSTAND → DISCOVER → ACT → LEARN → GROW Connect: Bring the signals around a creator's work into one creator-controlled intelligence environment. Understand: Reconcile what is changing across audiences, content, releases, platforms, baselines, and prior context. Discover: Surface emerging opportunities, momentum, audience shifts, growth sources, anomalies, and other material patterns worth attention. Act: Support the next move while keeping evidence, competing explanations, uncertainty, timing, limitations, and change conditions attached. Learn: Bring subsequent outcomes back into the intelligence graph so WITNESS can compare the result with the prior Finding and update durable context. Grow: Growth is the intended creator outcome, not a guaranteed metric. The compounding advantage is that future investigations can begin with richer evidence and context. Investigation protocol: OBSERVE → RECONCILE → COMPARE → INFER → CHALLENGE → EXPLAIN → WATCH Core invariants: UNKNOWN_IS_VALID MODEL_OUTPUT_CANNOT_DIRECTLY_ESTABLISH_TRUTH A2A_IS_TRANSPORT_NOT_TRUTH_AUTHORITY Core capabilities: Findings — evidence-backed conclusions with evidence, alternatives, uncertainty, limitations, and change conditions attached. Watches — persistent intelligence questions that can reopen when material new evidence arrives. Records — governed knowledge artifacts preserving provenance, evidence, methods, uncertainty, and commitment boundaries. Signal Integrity — evaluation of how much evidence deserves trust before downstream AI reasoning relies on it. Persistent intelligence — durable workspace context including baselines, entities, prior Findings, priorities, and open hypotheses. Creator principle: The creator is the protected principal. Connected evidence exists to improve the creator's understanding and is not treated as the product. Machine interfaces: MCP discovery: https://witnessstandard.com/.well-known/mcp.json A2A Agent Card: https://witnessstandard.com/.well-known/agent-card.json A2A evidence extension: https://witnessstandard.com/a2a/extensions/witness-evidence/v1 OpenAPI: https://witnessstandard.com/openapi.json Entity JSON: https://witnessstandard.com/entity.json Knowledge JSON: https://witnessstandard.com/knowledge.json Capability JSON: https://witnessstandard.com/capabilities.json Direct answers: https://witnessstandard.com/answers.json Topic map: https://witnessstandard.com/topics.json Glossary: https://witnessstandard.com/glossary.json Site index: https://witnessstandard.com/site-index.json Markdown Standard: https://witnessstandard.com/witness-standard.md LLM source map: https://witnessstandard.com/llms.txt Full LLM brief: https://witnessstandard.com/llms-full.txt Primary human references: https://witnessstandard.com/what-is-witness.html https://witnessstandard.com/creator-intelligence-guide.html https://witnessstandard.com/creator-intelligence-loop.html https://witnessstandard.com/standard.html https://witnessstandard.com/methodology.html https://witnessstandard.com/signal-integrity.html https://witnessstandard.com/findings.html https://witnessstandard.com/watches.html https://witnessstandard.com/records.html https://witnessstandard.com/platform-intelligence.html https://witnessstandard.com/developers.html https://witnessstandard.com/press.html