AURE / AI MASTERYReturn to AI Mastery

A field curriculum · 16 working silos

The trusted buyer path.

Make good work legible to buyers and machines—without letting an agent outrun its evidence, authority, or accountability.

How to use AURE

Build the record as you learn.

Move in order when building a system from scratch, or enter at the artifact your current decision requires. Each silo narrows one question, creates one working record, and names the boundary around what that record can prove.

01 / InspectStart with the decision and available evidence.
02 / ProduceCreate the named artifact, with unknowns intact.
03 / ReviewAssign ownership and the next correction event.

Phase 1 · 01–04

Ground truth

Define the buyer question, evidence boundary, canonical record, and authority map.

  1. 01Purpose and Buyer TruthStart with the buyer’s real question and define what a trustworthy answer must contain.buyer question ↗
  2. 02Evidence and Claim BoundariesSeparate fact, interpretation, framework, and promise before a claim enters a public system.claim register ↗
  3. 03Canonical Entity RecordsGive people and machines one inspectable record for who an organization is and what it actually does.entity record ↗
  4. 04Autonomous Resource ManagementMap resources, authority, trace records, and exceptions before an agent acts.resource map ↗

Phase 2 · 05–08

Trust and coordination

Make provenance, discovery, interoperability, and commercial state inspectable.

  1. 05Trust InfrastructureMake provenance, verification, reliance, and correction visible without pretending a record proves truth.trust packet ↗
  2. 06Machine-Readable InternetPublish structured relationships and discovery files that help systems find the right record without promising ranking or retrieval.discovery surface ↗
  3. 07Agentic InteroperabilityRepresent protocol roles, capabilities, messages, task state, and human handoffs without assuming interoperability guarantees safety.interaction contract ↗
  4. 08Economic Models and Agentic CommerceKeep value, payment, fulfillment, dispute, incentives, and risk allocation as separate states.commercial state map ↗

Phase 3 · 09–12

Buyer systems

Translate governance and research into qualified offers and reviewable proof.

  1. 09Autonomous Governance and Policy EnvelopesBound decisions with policy, evaluation, change control, exceptions, appeals, and accountable human roles.policy envelope ↗
  2. 10Offer Design and QualificationTurn a real buyer problem into a specific, inspectable offer with eligibility and no invented guarantee.offer brief ↗
  3. 11Discovery and Buyer ResearchFind what a buyer is deciding, what evidence they trust, and where the current answer fails them.discovery record ↗
  4. 12Proof Packets and Case EvidenceAssemble evidence that a buyer can inspect without turning an example into a promise or a testimonial.proof packet ↗

Phase 4 · 13–16

Operation and maintenance

Carry truthful conversations through handoff, measurement, and correction.

  1. 13Agent Sales ConversationsTrain agents to make the useful next step clear while staying inside authorization, evidence, and truth boundaries.conversation brief ↗
  2. 14Human Handoffs and CloseClose the loop by routing the right evidence and decision to the right accountable person at the right time.handoff packet ↗
  3. 15Measurement, Correction, and MaintenanceMeasure what actually happened, correct the record, and recheck it before stale truth becomes sales friction.maintenance record ↗
  4. 16AURE Capstone: The Trusted Buyer PathConnect all sixteen artifacts into one reviewable path from buyer question to evidence, decision, handoff, and maintained truth.operating packet ↗