Bound the object
Every assessment is tied to a specific system, version, use case, environment, exception condition, and claim.
ABOUT / STANDARD TRACE
Independent research applied to institutional claims.
Standard Trace is the professional-services practice founded and led by Corey Mock. It conducts bounded assessments, prepares governance trace reports, reviews claims, and develops evidence requirements.
FOUNDER / COREY MOCK
Principal & FounderStandard Trace
Corey Mock develops governance frameworks for automated systems.
His independently developed research examines whether institutions can support the claims they make about human oversight, control, and responsibility.
The program includes ten DOI publications, a public AEGIS repository, and a functional report-generation prototype. Standard Trace carries that architecture into bounded assessments of specific systems, operating environments, and governance claims.
WORKING POSITION
The claim should carry only the authority its evidence can support.
Separate the record
Governance assertion, supplied evidence, observed fact, supported inference, limitation, and finding remain distinct.
Protect independence
Organizations may pay for the answer. They may not pay to choose it.
RESEARCH → METHOD → PRACTICE
AEGIS is the framework. VIRGIL reconstructs. Standard Trace is the practice.
The published architecture supplies the governance framework. VIRGIL qualifies trace and reconstructs execution. The professional engagement supplies the boundary, evidence review, analysis, deliverables, and decision context.