Constitutional Threshold Assessment

Does your AI governance
actually hold?

Signal Pulse establishes one thing: whether authority over AI-influenced decisions in your organisation is real, visible, and exercisable, or whether governance is performance.

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One payment. Fully automated report. Results in under 20 minutes. Includes debrief call, 3-month VC membership, Primer PDF + more.

Verification Stack
NIST Public Record, March 2026
Luminary Diagnostics
Constitutional Signal Report
12 to 18 Minutes

Governance language without
governance substance

Most organisations have governance documentation. Very few can demonstrate that the authority described in that documentation is actually exercisable at the moment AI-influenced decisions are made.

Authority exists on paper, not at decision time

Someone has formal responsibility. But when an AI-influenced decision is being made, it is unclear whether that person can intervene, and how.

Drift happened without a decision

AI influence expanded incrementally. Nobody decided to hand over authority, it accumulated. Leadership may not know how far it has gone.

Visibility is assumed, not evidenced

Dashboards exist. Reports are produced. But the people who carry accountability cannot demonstrate that they actually see where AI shapes outcomes.

The problem is growing, not stabilising

AI deployment accelerates. Governance structures were designed for a different operating environment. The gap between authority claimed and authority exercisable is widening.


Six questions. One determination.
No performance, no scores.

Signal Pulse is built on the Verification Stack, Luminary Diagnostics' governance framework for establishing evidential AI authority. It asks one question: is it constitutionally meaningful to proceed with deeper examination, or would doing so risk laundering governance through belief?

Q0.1: Decision Ownership

If an AI-mediated decision caused serious harm tomorrow, who exactly would you name as the owner today?

Not a role. Not a committee. A person who would agree they currently hold that ownership.

Q0.2: Authority Drift

Which AI-mediated actions today were never explicitly authorised, but are now normal operations?

This question surfaces what has accumulated over time. Difficulty recalling authorisation is itself evidence of drift.

Q0.3: Visibility Gaps

Where is AI influencing outcomes in ways not fully visible to the people accountable for those outcomes?

Including pre-decision framing, where AI shapes the choice set before humans see it.

Q0.4: Authority Activation

At the moment an AI-influenced decision is made, what authority can a human realistically exercise?

Not what policy permits. What is actually exercisable at decision time.

Q0.4b: Authority Transfer

How was decision authority transferred to AI in the process you're examining?

Was there a formal moment? Or did influence grow to fill the space without a conscious handover? The origin of transfer determines its governance status.

Q0.5 & Q0.6: Reflection

Where would you still be guessing? Has that uncertainty grown over the past 12 months?

Plus: can you name a specific instance in the past 90 days where a human actively refused an AI-influenced recommendation before it took effect?


Not a score. A signal.

Signal Pulse produces one of three determinations. Each answers the same question: is it constitutionally meaningful to proceed with deeper examination, or not yet?

◆ Proceed

Examination can proceed on an evidentiary basis

Threshold conditions for meaningful deeper constitutional examination are currently met.

▲ Pause

One or more authority conditions are not yet stable

Proceeding without addressing these conditions would risk substituting assumption for evidence.

■ Stop

Governance is not currently anchored for meaningful examination

Proceeding would produce false confidence. Immediate attention to identified conditions is required.

Proceed does not mean governance is adequate. Stop does not mean governance has failed. All three are signals about the appropriate next step, not verdicts on organisational competence.


Complete in under 20 minutes.
Automated. Private. Immediate.

No consultants. No scheduling. No waiting. Signal Pulse is fully automated, you complete the assessment and receive your Constitutional Signal Report immediately.

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Purchase and access

One payment of £997. You are directed immediately to the Signal Pulse assessment. No account required. No waiting.

2

Name the process you're most uncertain about

Signal Pulse examines constitutional conditions within a specific AI-mediated decision process you name. This anchors the entire report and the determination.

3

Complete six questions across four dimensions

Decision ownership, authority drift, visibility, and authority activation, plus how authority was transferred to AI, and where uncertainty has accumulated over 12 months. 12 to 18 minutes.

4

Receive your Constitutional Signal Report immediately

A structured seven-section report with interpretation paragraphs for every response, a divergence map, and your PROCEED / PAUSE / STOP determination. Print or save as PDF.


Anyone carrying accountability for
AI-influenced decisions

If your name is attached to an AI-mediated process and you cannot confidently demonstrate that authority over it is real, visible, and exercisable, Signal Pulse is for you.

Chief Risk Officers

Establish whether governance of AI-influenced risk decisions is evidential or assumed.

Chief Compliance Officers

Assess whether accountability claims can survive hostile scrutiny before regulators ask.

Chief AI / Digital Officers

Determine whether authority over deployed AI systems reflects operational reality.

General Counsel

Identify where accountability is disputed, assumed, or unanchorable before harm occurs.

Non-Executive Directors

Ask harder questions about AI governance with a structured evidential foundation.

AI Governance Teams

Triage which systems and decision processes need deeper constitutional examination first.

More than an assessment.
A complete governance entry point.

Signal Pulse comes with five inclusions that together make the £997 straightforward to justify, and the next step, wherever it leads, easier to take.

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Core: £997

Constitutional Signal Report

Seven-section automated report, personalised to the specific process you name. PROCEED / PAUSE / STOP determination with full interpretation, divergence map, and can/cannot summary. Immediately available on completion.

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Included: £295 value

Signal Debrief: 30-minute 1:1 with Luminary Diagnostics

A structured 30-minute call with Steve Butler to walk through your determination, clarify the signals, and map the most relevant next step for your organisation. Booked directly from your report.

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Included: £1,629 value

Verification Circle Foundation, 6-month membership

Six months of Foundation membership in the Verification Circle, the intelligence room where AI governance gets decoded before the regulator asks. Includes all 9 published books by Steve Butler, 12 member-exclusive intelligence whitepapers (The Proof Problem, The Accountability Gap, The Director’s Liability and nine more), Foundation QUORO (your governed AI governance intelligence agent), monthly constitutional briefings and the full Rapid Response Desk. After six months, continue at £49/month, the introductory rate, locked at your Signal Pulse purchase date. No automatic renewal.

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Included: digital edition

The Verification Economy, Steve Butler

The digital edition of Steve Butler's book on the structural shift from trust-based to evidence-based AI accountability. Essential context for anyone working on governance in the current environment.

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Included: thought leadership PDF

The Verification Stack Primer

A 15-page deep-dive into the Verification Stack framework, the constitutional dimensions, the authority transfer problem, accumulated uncertainty, and what evidential governance actually looks like. Written to share internally and with boards.

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Included: early-bird priority

Exposure Pulse: early-bird access

Priority access to Exposure Pulse, Luminary Diagnostics' forthcoming instrument for mapping the specific AI exposure pathways in your organisation. Signal Pulse purchasers are first in.

Constitutional Signal Report £997
Signal Debrief (30-min 1:1) £295
Verification Circle Foundation, 6-month membership £1,629
The Verification Economy, digital edition included
Verification Stack Primer, PDF included
Exposure Pulse: early-bird access included
Total value £2,921
Your price today £997

£997 credited in full against BreakPoint (£25,000) if you proceed to a full diagnostic.


One payment. Everything included.

£997 + VAT. Immediate access. No account required. Your Constitutional Signal Report is generated automatically on completion.

Signal Pulse: Complete
£997 + VAT
£997 credited in full against BreakPoint (£25,000)
  • Constitutional Signal Report, seven sections, personalised to your named process
  • PROCEED / PAUSE / STOP determination with full interpretation
  • Authority transfer examination and 12-month uncertainty trajectory
  • Divergence and silence map
  • Signal Debrief, 30-min 1:1 with Luminary Diagnostics (£295 value)
  • Verification Circle Foundation, 6 months (£1,629 value)
  • The Verification Economy, digital edition
  • Verification Stack Primer, 15-page PDF
  • Exposure Pulse early-bird priority access
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The BreakPoint pathway

Signal Pulse is a threshold instrument. It tells you whether constitutional examination can proceed on an evidential basis, and identifies the specific process where it is most needed.

For organisations where Signal Pulse returns PAUSE or STOP, BreakPoint is the next step: Luminary Diagnostics' full pre-failure constitutional diagnostic, a deep examination of the specific system and operating model identified.

Your £997 Signal Pulse fee is credited in full against BreakPoint (£25,000).

BreakPoint is delivered as a structured engagement, not a software product. It involves direct examination of the system, process, and authority structures identified in your Signal Pulse.


Common questions

What is the Verification Stack?
The Verification Stack is Luminary Diagnostics' governance methodology for establishing evidential AI authority. It defines the constitutional conditions under which AI-influenced decisions can be considered genuinely governed, as distinct from governance in appearance only. The methodology is on NIST public record, March 2026.
Who should complete the Signal Pulse?
The person who carries or claims accountability for an AI-mediated decision process. The assessment is designed for a single respondent from a named vantage point. Perspective is itself a signal, different respondents in the same organisation may produce different results.
Is my data stored anywhere?
No. The Signal Pulse runs entirely in your browser. No responses are transmitted to or stored on any server. Your Constitutional Signal Report is generated locally and exists only in your current browser session. Save or print the report before closing the window.
What happens if I receive a STOP result?
A STOP result indicates that deeper examination without intervention would produce false confidence. Your report identifies the specific conditions, and your £997 Signal Pulse fee is credited in full against a BreakPoint engagement. We recommend booking a BreakPoint Review Meeting directly from your report.
Can Signal Pulse be used for regulatory or compliance purposes?
No. Signal Pulse is not an assessment, audit, certification, or determination of governance, safety, compliance, or adequacy. It describes signals, not conclusions. It cannot be relied upon as assurance, validation, or approval for any regulatory, legal, or compliance purpose.
How is Signal Pulse different from a governance maturity model?
Maturity models measure capability against a defined standard and produce a score. Signal Pulse does neither. It establishes whether examination can proceed on an evidentiary basis. It cannot be gamed to produce a better result, it can only surface what is actually present.
Can we use Signal Pulse across multiple processes?
Yes. Signal Pulse examines one specific process per assessment. For organisations wanting to triage across multiple AI-mediated processes, multiple assessments can be purchased. Contact Luminary Diagnostics for volume pricing.
Signal Pulse

The question that precedes
every other governance question

Before asking whether your AI governance is adequate, rigorous, or defensible, you need to know whether the authority it describes is real. That is the only question Signal Pulse asks.

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