How It Works
An independent evidence plane for AI.
Safe Haven is designed as a temporal abstraction layer rather than a database view — evidence capture, temporal reconstruction and verifiable integrity as reusable infrastructure.
Architecture
Proposed layers
Layer 01
AI Applications
- LLMs
- Agents
- ML
- RAG
- Automated Decisions
Layer 02
Safe Haven Connect
- API
- SDK
- Gateway
- Events
Layer 03
AI Evidence Envelope
- Data
- Model
- Prompt
- RAG
- Tools
- Policies
- Identity
- Human Intervention
- Output
- Action
Layer 04
Temporal Replay Engine
- Valid Time
- Transaction Time
- Corrections
- Version History
- Temporal Relationships
Layer 05
Immutable Evidence Vault
- Cryptographic Integrity
- Digital Signatures
- Tamper Evidence
- Retention Policies
Layer 06
Audit & Replay
- Historical Reconstruction
- Investigation
- Compliance
- Counterfactual Analysis
- Authorised Third-Party Access
Temporal Replay Engine
Two kinds of time, moved out of applications.
The original TRE concept was demonstrated as a transparent temporal layer over relational database technology. The proposed Safe Haven architecture evolves this principle into a database-neutral temporal evidence service capable of integrating with modern operational databases, warehouses, AI data stores and event sources through platform-specific adapters.
Proposed source categories
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- Snowflake
- BigQuery
- Databricks / lakehouse
- Vector databases
- Document / object stores
- Event streams
- APIs and external tools
The temporal semantics should belong to Safe Haven rather than being reimplemented independently in each customer application.
Three forms of replay
Recorded, reconstructed, counterfactual.
Recorded Replay
What actually happened?
Display the evidence captured around the original AI event without rerunning it.
Historical Reconstruction
What did the system know at that time?
Reconstruct relevant data, policy, model, prompt, retrieval and knowledge state.
Counterfactual Replay
What would happen using what we know now?
Re-evaluate historical decisions using corrected data, changed policy or a different model.
Exact computational reproducibility may depend on the continued availability and deterministic behaviour of external models and services. Safe Haven therefore distinguishes recorded evidence from computational re-execution.
AI Evidence Envelope
Capture the context, not simply the output.
Model
Provider, model family, exact version or checkpoint where available, and configuration.
Prompt
System prompt, user prompt, template and template version.
Knowledge
Documents, vector results, database queries and source records.
Data
Relevant business data with its temporal state.
Agents
Agent identity, task, hand-offs and workflow metadata.
Tools
APIs, functions and external services invoked.
Policy
Business rules, guardrails and regulatory controls active at the time.
Identity
Person, service or AI process initiating the activity.
Human Oversight
Approval, escalation, rejection or override by a person.
Decision
Model output plus the actual downstream business action.
Integrity
Hashes, signatures and evidence-chain verification.
Cryptographic trust
Evidence should be verifiable, not merely stored.
- Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)
- Protected signing keys
- Digital signatures
- Immutable / WORM storage
- Evidence hashes
- Hash chains or Merkle structures
- Trusted timestamping
- Strong administrator separation and role segregation
Architecture target: support for FIPS 140-3 Level 3 hardware-backed cryptographic key protection where required. Deployed FIPS compliance is not claimed until the final architecture and validated components are in service.
Service direction
A Safe Haven Evidence API and SDK.
POST /evidence/event
POST /evidence/source
POST /evidence/decision
POST /evidence/human-action
GET /replay/{case}
GET /replay/{case}?transaction_time=T1
GET /replay/{case}?valid_time=T2Future natural-language capability
“What did the organisation know about customer 1927 when decision D552 was made?”
The platform would translate that request into temporal queries over the evidence model and connected source systems.
Strategic engagement
Government, banking or technology stakeholder?
We are currently developing the Safe Haven architecture and exploring potential pilot, policy, infrastructure and funding partnerships.