Standards · D-001
Non-interpretive evidence layer
EMJ.life publishes a pre-disclosure evidence layer. Every numeric and qualitative output the platform emits is bound by D-001, the founding constitutional clause: nothing we emit is a rating, a grade, an assurance opinion, or investment advice. We record what actually happened — issuers and assurance providers remain responsible for any downstream disclosure or opinion. This page is the canonical reference for that boundary; it is cited from public stats, the student dashboard, and every framework-mapping page under /standards/*.
The rule
D-001 disclaimer (canonical text)
EMJ.life provides an evidence layer. Data shown here does not constitute an ESG rating, credit grade, assurance opinion, or investment advice. Downstream disclosure remains the issuer's responsibility under applicable frameworks (IFRS S1/S2, ESRS, GRI, SASB).
The string above is the machine-readable disclaimer attached to every API response that carries platform data. It is sourced frompackages/shared/src/disclaimer.tsand bumps with each constitutional revision.
Why non-interpretive is load-bearing
The non-interpretive boundary is the first of three institutional moats described indocs/POSITIONING_moat.md:
- Evidence itself. A full year of records produced in real high-entropy scenarios — by real people, organisations, and industries — that cannot be recreated by a follower.
- Knowledge system. The DOI whitepaper corpus that fixes the institutional language used across every framework mapping.
- Institutional authorisation.Active engagement with IFRS Foundation and SASB on the Level III commercial licence track. (We do not claim certification we have not yet been granted.)
If EMJ.life ever emitted a score or an opinion, layers 1 and 2 would collapse: the record would become a judgement, and framework mappings would become advocacy. D-001 is therefore enforced in code byscripts/lint-d001.shand by the platform-wide disclaimer payload.
Related constitutional articles
D-001 does not stand alone. The following articles extend the non-interpretive boundary into adjacent domains; all of them are published as part of the platform constitution at versionC-2026.05.c.
- D-001 Non-interpretive
- Nothing emitted by EMJ.life constitutes an ESG rating, credit grade, assurance opinion, or investment advice.
- D-022 Quality gate only
- Validation may reject a record on quality grounds but never disqualifies the participant. The subject remains in good standing.
- D-023 Non-Optimization
- Internal value reflects participation structure, not performance. This principle is absolute.
- D-024 Format conformance is not endorsement
- Emitting an IFRS S2, ESRS, GRI, or SASB-shaped artefact attests format conformance only and confers no endorsement of the underlying claims.
- D-037 Assurance Compatibility
- EMJ.life is assurance-compatible, not an assurance provider. Records produced by the evidence layer MUST be consumable by ISAE 3000 / ISAE 3410 / IFRS ISSB assurance procedures without requiring re-keying, but EMJ never substitutes for the assurance opinion. The platform appends evidence; assurance providers append opinions. The two boundaries are non-fungible and never collapsed in code, schema, or public copy.
- D-038 Evidence Integrity Compound
- Evidence value compounds across three layers — Participation (C2B), Operational (B2C), and Industrial (B2B). The platform MUST preserve continuity across these layers via external_ids manifest and DOI provenance chain. No layer may be aggregated, averaged, imputed, or otherwise interpolated; doing so would convert evidence into estimate and violate D-001 + D-023.
- D-039 Three-Layer Moat
- EMJ's institutional position rests on three non-technical moats: (1) evidence accumulated in real high-entropy scenarios; (2) the knowledge system sealed in DOI whitepapers defining institutional language; (3) institutional authorization tracks (e.g. active engagement with IFRS Foundation / SASB on Level III commercial licence). No product, API, or copy decision may weaken any of these three layers in exchange for short-term feature velocity (see docs/POSITIONING_moat.md).
The full list of articles (D-001 through D-039) is served byGET /api/v1/public/constitutional-articlesand is rendered on the home portal under “Constitution”.
How D-001 shows up in every product surface
- Every API response carries
non_interpretive_disclaimer: trueplus the canonical English text — see the disclaimer payload shape inpackages/shared/src/disclaimer.ts. - Public stats pages aggregate-only counters; per-subject identification is never exposed.
- Framework-mapping pages under
/standards/*describe citation scope only — they never claim compliance, certification, or endorsement (D-024). - The lint script
scripts/lint-d001.shblocks merge on any HARD-flagged interpretive token — verbs of certification, attestation, or platform-side judgement are rejected before merge.