Glossary
Every LAKIN term in one place.
Aim (△ Triangle)
A claim, intention, or commitment with direction. The signal going out. Every sentence, report, or promise that describes a state of affairs or makes a commitment about the future. An aim points at reality — it doesn't prove it arrived.
Auditability
One of the five friction components. Whether a third party can independently verify the evidence chain. High auditability means anyone can retrace the steps and reach the same conclusion.
Circle (○) — The Story
The context surrounding the moment a claim touched a wall. Who was there. What evidence was presented. What conditions existed. What was observed. The circle turns data into testimony. It's the hardest shape to fake because it's made of presence, not data.
Contact
The moment when a claim (triangle) reaches an independent system (square). Contact generates friction — measurable resistance that indicates something real happened.
Cost to Fake
One of the five friction components. The money, time, or legal risk required to fabricate the evidence. Higher cost to fake means higher friction.
Echo
A signal that went out and came back. A claim that touched a wall, gathered story, and returned as a receipt. The opposite of silence. Echo is proof of a completed round trip.
Echo Canon
The theoretical framework underlying LAKIN. The set of principles, shapes, and mechanisms that define how claims are verified against reality.
Feel the Seal™
LAKIN's patented authentication layer (U.S. Patent Application 63/865,338). The mechanism by which you know a receipt is real — that the round trip actually completed.
Friction
The measurable resistance generated when a claim touches an independent system. Friction is LAKIN's word for realness. It's composed of five components: independence, cost to fake, irreversibility, witness quality, and auditability.
Friction Grade
A rating of how much resistance a claim generated. HIGH: costly to fake, independently verified, irreversible. LOW: some contact, but the wall is soft. NONE: no contact with any independent system.
GetReceipts
The first product in the LAKIN proof layer. The platform where claims become receipts, then get collected, shared, and verified. Found at getreceipts.com.
Grounded Intelligence
Intelligence that has been routed through touch surfaces and sealed with friction data. Human, machine, or institutional output that touched reality and came back carrying proof.
Independence
One of the five friction components. Whether the wall is controlled by the person making the claim or is external. High independence means the claimant can't manipulate the wall's response.
Irreversibility
One of the five friction components. Whether the evidence can be undone without leaving traces. An irreversible action (like a wire transfer) carries more friction than a reversible one (like an unsent email).
LAKIN
The proof layer for intelligence. The underlying system of shapes, seals, and friction measurement that powers all LAKIN products and makes proof native to action.
Layer 1: Contact
The bottom layer of the trust stack. Where independent systems live — ledgers, commits, sensors, payment rails. The layer with the most friction and the least attention.
Layer 2: Intent
The middle layer of the trust stack. Where plans and commitments live — tickets, roadmaps, OKRs, promises.
Layer 3: Story
The top layer of the trust stack. Where most decisions are made — status updates, presentations, emails, reports. The layer with the least friction and the most attention.
Receipt
A portable, auditable object created when all three shapes lock together with a seal. Contains the aim (△), the wall's response (□), the story of the contact (○), and the seal (𒐌). A receipt is not a story — it's structured evidence that a claim met reality.
Round Trip
The complete journey of a signal: out (aim), contact (wall), context (story), and return (seal). A receipt is the artifact of a completed round trip. If the signal never returns, the claim is silence.
Seal (𒐌)
The moment all three shapes lock together. The completion of the round trip. The signal returning. The seal is not a stamp on contact — it's the closure that makes a receipt portable and verifiable.
Silence
A signal that went out but never returned. A claim that was never tested against an independent system. The opposite of echo. Silence might be true, but it hasn't been verified. Most business communication is silence.
Slop (AI Slop)
Output that never touched reality. Content that looks exactly like verified output but was never checked against an independent system. Slop is friction-grade NONE — triangles that never touched squares. Not defined by quality or origin, but by the absence of friction.
Square (□) — The Wall
An independent system that can push back against a claim. The wall doesn't argue — it resists or it doesn't. Examples: bank ledgers, code repositories, GPS sensors, payment rails, signed contracts, lab instruments.
Touch
The verb for what happens when a claim reaches a wall. "Did it touch?" means "was it tested against an independent system?" The core action in the LAKIN mechanism.
Touch Surface
An independent system that can be touched — a wall that can push back. Banks, code repos, sensors, payment rails, GPS systems, payroll, contracts, inventory systems. LAKIN's validator adapters connect to these surfaces.
Triangle (△) — The Aim
See: Aim.
Trust Stack
The three-layer model of organizational information. Layer 1 (Contact) has the most friction. Layer 3 (Story) has the least. Most organizations are upside down — making decisions from Layer 3 while ignoring Layer 1.
Untouched
A claim that has not been tested against an independent system. A triangle that never met a square. The claim might be true, but it carries no friction data.
Validator Adapter
A pre-built connector between LAKIN and a touch surface. Examples: GitHub, Stripe, DocuSign, Jira, Salesforce, GPS, payroll systems. Validator adapters are how claims get routed to walls.
Wall
See: Square.
Witness Quality
One of the five friction components. What kind of observer confirmed the contact. A human witness, a calibrated instrument, and an automated attestation each carry different weight.
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