TA-14 — The Admissibility-Before-Execution Architecture: Admissible Evidence, Proof-Bound Governance, and the Eight-Stage Chain from Reality to Outcome

TA-14 is the Admissibility-Before-Execution Architecture for consequence-bearing systems. TA-14 establishes that execution is not automatically admissible merely because a system can technically perform an action, because telemetry exists, because a workflow can proceed, because an AI model generated an output, because a policy engine approved a request, because a dashboard displayed operational status, because a runtime gate allowed continuation, or because a log was created after consequence already attached. The architecture begins from a fundamentally different premise: Consequence-bearing systems must establish admissible evidence before execution is permitted to bind operational, institutional,…