Platform · Conscience
Trust the modelthe least.
Conscience is the guardrail, evaluation and governance layer. It checks what the model proposes against what your organization declared and permits.
- Query guardrails
Generated queries checked against declared definitions and scope.
- Tool-call guardrails
Every call checked against permitted operations.
- Ask, don't guess
A failed check becomes a question, not an assumption.
- Verified questions
Reference answers, re-checked as data and definitions change.
- Drift flags
Answers that would differ today go back to their owner.
- Approvals
Authoritative changes follow the applicable approval.
- Audit trail
Who changed what, when, and on whose approval.
- Trust by Architecture
Six principles, built into the platform. Read them
Guardrails
One check fails.
Aether asks.
When a question does not match what is declared, Aether asks instead of guessing.
SELECT SUM(revenue - cogs) / SUM(revenue) AS gross_margin FROM finance.sales_cogs WHERE fiscal_quarter = 'FY26-Q3' AND region = 'North'
“North” is not a region in the Finance model. Did you mean North America, or the Nordic countries within EMEA?
Fig. — A failed check becomes a questionIllustrative data
Evaluation
Verified answers,
re-checked.
An answer that would differ today goes back to its owner, with the reason.
| Verified question | Today |
|---|---|
| Gross margin, Q3 FY2638.3% | Same answer |
| Net sales by region, Q3 FY26EMEA 18.3M · NA 15.9M · APAC 9.5M | Same answer |
| Active customers, Septemberwas 12,480 · today 12,213 | Would differ |
| Inventory days, APAC, Q352 days | Same answer |
| Days sales outstanding, EMEA, Septemberwas 47 days · today 49 days | Would differ |
Fig. — Reference answers, re-checkedIllustrative data