NEWTONIAN STANDARD

attestation workflow · order & deploy · for evaluation · counsel: MGB

You want human attestation in your workflow. Here's the SKU, how to order it, and how it goes live.

From signed agreement to first verdict — on an NS-provisioned tenant, today · self-service ordering is on the roadmap

A live capture of a specific human — their actual involuntary biology, in the moment — turned into a key inside a region the operator can’t observe, producing a signed proof that this person was present and authorized this action.

Not a stored faceprint. Not a credential. The living person, verified where no one can watch, in the moment it happened. Face recognition uses a database you can breach. Liveness detection asks only “is it a real face.” Confidential computing secures the machine. No one combines them — a live involuntary signal from a specific human, derived where the operator is blind, returning a portable signed proof of presence. That intersection is what you’re turning on.

What you're turning on: a proof, at the moment of a sensitive action, that a specific live human is present and authorizing it — not a stolen credential, not an automated agent. It rides on top of your existing identity (Okta, Entra, OIDC) and returns a signed verdict your workflow can trust.

01 The SKU — what you're buying

Attestation Workspace — EvaluationNS-ATT-WS-EVAL

Deployable today

What it is	A scoped First Person Compute (FPC) Workspace with the Workflow Attestation API enabled, running on an NS-provisioned GPU tenant.
Where it runs	An NS-operated NVIDIA L4 instance on Google Cloud. NS owns and operates the GPU and substrate control plane; you access the exposed API surface and your workspace.
Scope	1 sovereign tenant · [N] attesting principals · [N] attestations / month · defined workflow integrations.
What you get	Your workspace URL, a scoped API key, the live attestation endpoints, the integration guide, and a reference workflow connector.
Calibration	Attestation flow is demonstrated small-scale (n=3 blind-test). LEK capture today uses camera / available IMU; the dedicated sensing device is roadmap.
Term & fee	60-day evaluation under the NS Evaluation & Design Partner Agreement · fee per that agreement [$ / design-partner].

Commercial tier (NS-ATT-WS-PROD) follows the same shape at production scope — per-GPU / per-attestation utility metering. The eval SKU is the on-ramp; the commercial SKU is where it lives at scale. commercial tier · roadmap pricing

02 How to order — today, and where it's going

Scope call. We confirm your workflow, the action you want to gate, your identity provider, and the principal / attestation counts. NS + you

Sign. Execute the NS Evaluation & Design Partner Agreement (scope, IP, term). This is the order. You

NS provisions. We stand up your tenant on the L4 and send your workspace URL + scoped API key. Typically within days of signature. NS

Where this is going roadmap: a self-service portal where you select the SKU, pay via Stripe, and your tenant provisions automatically — the Founding-partner program. Today the path is guided and NS-provisioned by design, so your first deployment has us in the loop. That's deliberate, not a limitation: you get a real engineer on your integration.

03 What NS provisions for you

On signature, NS stands up your isolated tenant on the NS-operated L4 and delivers:

· Your FPC Workspace URL — your branded, scoped entry point.
· A scoped API key — time-limited, bound to your tenant and scope.
· Live attestation endpoints — /v1/attestation/initiate, /v1/attestation/verify, and your webhook.
· The integration guide + a reference workflow connector.

NS retains and operates the GPU and substrate control plane throughout — you never run the substrate yourself. The LEK derivation and the sealed verdict happen inside the tenant; only the signed verdict crosses back to you.

04 Deploy from your workspace — two paths

A · API integrationprimary

Your existing app or workflow calls the Attestation API at the gating moment
The user completes the liveness challenge; NS returns a signed verdict
Your workflow proceeds only on a valid verdict
Best for: gating an action already in your stack (a transaction, an approval, a privileged grant)

B · In-workspace

Your principals work inside the FPC Workspace UI NS provisions
Attestation and the sealed action happen in-substrate, in the workspace
Host, operator, and network see only metadata + the verdict
Best for: a self-contained sovereign workflow that lives in the workspace

The integration, in brief (Path A): from your workflow, initiate an attestation, present the returned challenge to your user, and act on the signed verdict your webhook receives.

# 1 · initiate — from your workflow, at the gating moment
POST https://<your-tenant>.newtonianstandard.ai/v1/attestation/initiate
  Authorization: Bearer <your-scoped-key>
  { "principal": "banker@firm.com", "action": "wire.approve",
    "context": { "amount": "2400000", "ref": "TXN-88431" } }
  → returns { attestation_id, challenge }  — present challenge to the live human

# 2 · verdict — delivered to your webhook, ed25519-signed
  { "attestation_id": "att_9f2…", "verdict": "present",
    "principal": "banker@firm.com", "action": "wire.approve",
    "signature": "ed25519:…", "expires_in": 300 }
  → verify the signature, then let the action proceed

Endpoint shapes are representative; your provisioned guide carries the exact schema. The verdict is short-lived and bound to the live human — a replay without the person produces nothing.

05 First verdict — the hello-world

Log into your workspace with the URL NS provided; confirm your scoped key is active. You

Run one attestation end-to-end from the workspace test console or a single API call — complete the liveness challenge yourself. You

See the signed verdict return and verify its signature. That's the loop your workflow will run in production. You

Wire it into one real workflow step with NS alongside — gate a single action behind a valid verdict, and watch it hold. NS + you

06 The honest boundary

deployable now

Provisioning a scoped FPC Workspace + Attestation API on the NS-operated L4. The initiate → challenge → signed-verdict loop. API and in-workspace deploy paths.

small-scale

LEK liveness at n=3 blind-test; camera / available-IMU capture today. Single sovereign tenant per workspace.

roadmap

Self-service SKU ordering + Stripe + automatic provisioning. The dedicated sensing device. Multi-tenant at scale. Population-scale LEK characterization. Commercial-tier utility pricing.

What you're buying today is real and runs on hardware that exists: a provisioned workspace, a working attestation loop, a signed verdict in your workflow. The self-service storefront is where it's going — today you get a guided deployment with an NS engineer on your integration.