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GAIA

GAIA is a standards intelligence and governance automation capability developed within THE ARCHON. It keeps a library of governance controls, requirements and framework mappings current as regulations and technology standards change, and brings only genuine exceptions to a person.

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Live status

Active
Monitoring
16
Sources monitored
16 of 16
Sources healthy
84
Active controls
132
Active requirements
295
Control mappings
6 Oct 2026
Last successful monitoring run
Sufficient public evidence
Public evidence

Figures are read live from GAIA and refreshed every few minutes. Only aggregate counts are shown here; no operational detail is published.

What GAIA does

  1. 01
    Monitor

    Registered official sources and public evidence are checked on a fixed weekly schedule.

  2. 02
    Discover

    When primary text is not practically accessible, GAIA looks for authoritative public evidence instead of stopping.

  3. 03
    Assess

    Facts such as edition, status, dates and supersession are normalised and checked for confidence and contradictions.

  4. 04
    Map

    Findings are correlated to the governance controls and requirements GAIA already maintains.

  5. 05
    Update

    Normal, high-confidence, additive changes are applied automatically after validation; exceptions go to a person.

  6. 06
    Audit

    Every decision keeps its evidence, confidence, rationale and before/after state.

The public evidence model

Many standards are published behind paywalls or login walls. GAIA does not treat that as a dead end, and it does not work around it. When direct primary material is not practically accessible, it uses authoritative public evidence to establish the facts it needs to monitor a standard: the current edition, supersession, amendments, publication and effective dates, the nature of a revision and publicly named areas of change.

  • Official announcements and change notices
  • Regulator and supervisory-authority guidance
  • Standards-body public material
  • Accredited certification-body transition notices
  • Other credible public evidence, clearly labelled as secondary

GAIA never bypasses authentication or access controls and does not reproduce protected full text. It stores facts and their provenance. Where the public evidence is genuinely insufficient, the standard is flagged for a person instead of being guessed.

Automation with guardrails

Handled automatically

Normal, high-confidence, additive changes that pass deterministic validation, such as evidence metadata, version and date information, or a well-evidenced additive mapping. Each one is validated before and after, applied atomically where possible, and audited.

Routed to a person

Anything ambiguous, low-confidence or contradictory, and anything that would remove or weaken a control or requirement. These are never applied automatically; they appear as items that need attention.

Traceability

Every change GAIA records keeps its evidence and provenance, the confidence it was assessed with, the rationale, the state before and after, and an audit event. A change that cannot be audited is not kept.

What GAIA is, and is not

GAIA supports governance and compliance work with monitored evidence and maintained mappings. It is not a certification, it does not provide legal advice and it does not guarantee that an organisation is compliant with any standard or regulation. It is developed and operated within THE ARCHON.

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