Official source
Material regulatory truth starts with government sources. Secondary material may help discovery, but it does not replace official evidence.
Trust methodology
From official evidence to an explainable result.
BusinessPermitGuide is designed around a strict separation between source evidence, structured regulatory facts, deterministic rules, and presentation. That separation is what makes a result inspectable, testable, versionable, and capable of failing closed when the data is incomplete.
Immutable evidence
The exact source response can be archived with an exact-byte SHA-256 so later review can establish what BPG actually received.
Atomic regulatory fact
Long regulatory prose is decomposed into reviewable claims such as authority, fee, inspection, effective date, exemption, or operational requirement.
Deterministic rule
A rule connects verified regulatory facts to structured facts about the business. An AI model does not make the final runtime applicability decision.
Business-specific result
The evaluator returns a bounded outcome and keeps unresolved facts, uncertainty, evidence, and next steps visible.
SOURCE → FACT → RULE → PRESENTATION
Presentation can explain regulatory truth; it must not become an independent source of regulatory authority.
Uncertainty
Missing information stays missing.
BPG prefers outcomes such as unresolved, unknown, possibly required, or needs review over inventing certainty. A structurally incomplete governed package should make a determination unavailable rather than silently filling the gap from hard-coded copy.
Ask only what matters
Conditional questions should arise from unresolved rule predicates instead of a disconnected giant questionnaire.
Version, don't overwrite
Requirements, facts, and rules are intended to preserve historical state so a past assessment can remain explainable after regulations change.
Show the basis
A material result should be reconstructable from business fact → rule → regulatory fact → evidence → immutable snapshot → official source.
Review and publication
AI can assist research. Governed publication remains the authority.
Automated systems may assist source discovery, extraction, classification, summarization, or change triage. They do not independently publish legal certainty or decide at runtime that a permit is required. Material regulatory changes move through evidence-backed review and publication controls before they can become active authority.
Coverage limits
Verified data comes before scale.
The current public assessment is intentionally bounded. BPG should not mass-generate geography or business pages ahead of trustworthy structured coverage. Unsupported scenarios stay unsupported until a verified package exists.