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Engineer-citable reference architectures from iSimplifyMe. Each paper documents a production pattern we deploy for clients — private LLM, AWS Bedrock, regulated-industry posture, and the engineering tradeoffs that shape model selection, isolation, and compliance.

Paper Nº 0116 min read

The Trust Ladder: Supervised Autonomy for AI Code Review

A promotion architecture for AI code review — shadow, advisory, soft-gate, hard-gate — where a non-deterministic reviewer earns each rung on measured precision, availability, latency, and false-block rate, with automatic demotion, fails-neutral wiring, and an availability watch that makes silent gate death impossible.

Published 2026-07-23·Joe Elstner·Founder, iSimplifyMe
Paper Nº 0214 min read

The AEO Standard

The 100-point, seven-section Answer Engine Optimization rubric — gating rules, atomic answer specifications, and score thresholds — as a print-ready white paper. The living standard stays open at its canonical home in the Lab.

Published 2026-07-10·Joe Elstner·Founder, iSimplifyMe
Paper Nº 0528 min read

Layer 3: Data + Retrieval

A reference architecture for the data and retrieval layer of LLM-native AI systems on AWS Bedrock — pipelines, permissioned retrieval, hybrid search, context engineering, memory, and feedback loops — drawn from iSimplifyMe production deployments in regulated and mid-market work.

Published 2026-05-06·Joe Elstner·Founder, iSimplifyMe
Paper Nº 0618 min read

Layer 4: Reliability Engineering for Regulated AI

A reference architecture for the reliability layer of LLM-native systems on AWS Bedrock — layered guardrails, atomic content integrity, investigate-only audit agents, circuit breakers, retries, and quality gates — the engineering that decides whether a deployed AI system holds up in regulated production or decays into a demo.

Published 2026-06-28·Joe Elstner·Founder, iSimplifyMe
Paper Nº 0717 min read

Layer 5: Multi-Tenant Business Integration

A reference architecture for the business-integration layer of an LLM-native platform on AWS — single-table multi-tenancy with isolation by construction, domain-routed tenant resolution, a unified lead pipeline, role-permissioned dashboards, and synchronized billing — the layer that turns AI capability into a product many clients run on one platform.

Published 2026-06-28·Joe Elstner·Founder, iSimplifyMe
L0Shadowlogs structured verdicts · posts nothing · blocks nothing — bar: ~30 verdicts · ≥99% availability over 4 weeks
L1Advisoryone comment per PR, no emails — bar: audited precision ≥85% · p95 latency under 3 min
L2Soft-gaterequired check · logged override · fails neutral — bar: precision ≥95% · zero silent-failure days · overrides <10%
L3Hard-gaterequired, no label bypass — deliberately unscheduled; earned only
Fig. 01The Trust Ladder — promotion on trailing-window metrics, demotion automatic. From Paper Nº 01.
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