QIS-F-400 QISFUND.COM THE CAPITAL LAYER REV 2026-08-27 · BUILD 42
The Capital Layer · Ontology

The QIS knowledge graph.

Every reference document in this ecosystem is a node. Every concept it addresses is a node. The edges between them are the argument: what a strategy family depends on, which definitions a governance standard rests on, which infrastructure a workflow actually runs on. This is that structure, rendered directly and published as open data.

A KYA score, a MARQUE question, a drafted clause-library instrument, a glossary definition and the daily market snapshot are not five separate products that happen to share a domain. Each is published as its own artifact, and each is also a node or an edge here: trace a KYA dimension and it resolves to the MARQUE question it evidences and, where one exists, the instrument that operationalizes it; trace a strategy family and it resolves to the glossary term that defines it and the market data that measures it. Three sites that only linked to each other in a footer would be three sites. This is the structure that makes them one asset instead — every document here is evidence that the others are real, not merely adjacent.

Opens on the governance spine, not the full 396-node graph — click a node to inspect it and reveal what connects to it·positions are fixed, computed once at build time · drag to reposition · scroll to zoom

QIS Ontology · v9.0 Documents & concepts Focus view · Show full graph · Reset view · graph.json
QISAgent QISFund QISTrust Concept

The diagram is a convenience; a fixed, deterministic one — the same layout every visit, computed once at build time, not resettled by a live simulation on your machine. The authoritative data is /api/graph.json — a stable, CORS-enabled JSON document, licensed for fetching, caching, mirroring, and citation with attribution — and every node also publishes its own bounded two-hop neighborhood at /api/graph/context/<id>.json, built for retrieval systems that want one node's context without loading the whole graph. Citation and non-commercial use are covered by the license; if you build something with it, tell us and we will link to you.

The Index

Every document, by layer.

The same graph as a plain list, because a list is what a crawler, a screen reader, and a person in a hurry actually need.

Intelligence · hub

QISAgent — the intelligence layer

Agentic finance, Market data, Infrastructure

qisagent.com/
Intelligence · index

The QIS Atlas

Directory, Infrastructure, Platforms, Market data

qisagent.com/atlas/
Intelligence · profile

QuantConnect

Platforms, Backtesting

qisagent.com/atlas/quantconnect
Intelligence · profile

Interactive Brokers

Execution, Brokerage

qisagent.com/atlas/interactive-brokers
Intelligence · profile

Alpaca

Execution, APIs, Brokerage

qisagent.com/atlas/alpaca
Intelligence · profile

Massive

Market data, APIs

qisagent.com/atlas/massive
Intelligence · profile

Databento

Market data, Microstructure

qisagent.com/atlas/databento
Intelligence · profile

vectorbt

Backtesting, Python

qisagent.com/atlas/vectorbt
Intelligence · profile

MLFinLab

Research, Machine learning, Python

qisagent.com/atlas/mlfinlab
Intelligence · profile

Numerai

Research, Crowdsourced research, Machine learning

qisagent.com/atlas/numerai
Intelligence · article

Documented research workflows

Workflows, Reproducibility, Python, Market data

qisagent.com/workflows/
Intelligence · utility

The QIS tape

Market tape, Market regime, Market data, Reproducibility

qisagent.com/ticker/
Intelligence · article

The Walkthrough

End-to-end walkthrough, Reference gate, Governed quantity, Schedule, Conformance, MARQUE, KYA, Authority

qisagent.com/walkthrough/
Intelligence · index

The Agent Stack

Infrastructure, Agentic finance, Agent orchestration

qisagent.com/stack/
Intelligence · profile

Langfuse

AI observability, Auditability

qisagent.com/stack/langfuse
Intelligence · profile

Arize

AI observability, Model drift, Model risk

qisagent.com/stack/arize
Intelligence · profile

Evidently

Model drift, Model risk, Python

qisagent.com/stack/evidently
Intelligence · profile

Helicone

AI observability, APIs

qisagent.com/stack/helicone
Intelligence · profile

Weights & Biases

Experiment tracking, Reproducibility

qisagent.com/stack/wandb
Intelligence · profile

Comet

Experiment tracking, Model risk

qisagent.com/stack/comet
Intelligence · profile

Humanloop

Evaluation, Prompt orchestration

qisagent.com/stack/humanloop
Intelligence · profile

TruEra

Model risk, Evaluation

qisagent.com/stack/truera
Intelligence · profile

CrewAI

Agent orchestration, Multi-agent systems

qisagent.com/stack/crewai
Intelligence · profile

AutoGen

Agent orchestration, Multi-agent systems

qisagent.com/stack/autogen
Intelligence · profile

Semantic Kernel

Agent orchestration, Enterprise

qisagent.com/stack/semantic-kernel
Intelligence · profile

LangGraph

Agent orchestration, Python

qisagent.com/stack/langgraph
Intelligence · profile

PydanticAI

Agent orchestration, Python, Validation

qisagent.com/stack/pydanticai
Intelligence · profile

OpenHands

Agent orchestration, Code models

qisagent.com/stack/openhands
Intelligence · profile

DSPy

Prompt orchestration, Evaluation, Python

qisagent.com/stack/dspy
Intelligence · profile

Temporal

Durable execution, Auditability, Orchestration

qisagent.com/stack/temporal
Intelligence · profile

LlamaIndex

Retrieval, RAG, Python

qisagent.com/stack/llamaindex
Intelligence · profile

Haystack

Retrieval, RAG, Python

qisagent.com/stack/haystack
Intelligence · profile

Pinecone

Vector search, Retrieval, Infrastructure

qisagent.com/stack/pinecone
Intelligence · profile

Neo4j

Knowledge graph, Graph databases, GraphRAG

qisagent.com/stack/neo4j
Intelligence · profile

Memgraph

Knowledge graph, Graph databases, Streaming

qisagent.com/stack/memgraph
Intelligence · profile

TigerGraph

Knowledge graph, Graph databases

qisagent.com/stack/tigergraph
Intelligence · profile

DuckDB

Analytics, Python, Backtesting

qisagent.com/stack/duckdb
Intelligence · profile

dbt

Transformation, Reproducibility, Data lineage

qisagent.com/stack/dbt
Intelligence · profile

Dagster

Pipelines, Data lineage, Reproducibility

qisagent.com/stack/dagster
Intelligence · profile

Airbyte

Ingestion, Market data, Pipelines

qisagent.com/stack/airbyte
Intelligence · profile

OpenLineage

Data lineage, Provenance, Standards

qisagent.com/stack/openlineage
Intelligence · profile

Great Expectations

Data integrity, Validation, Python

qisagent.com/stack/great-expectations
Intelligence · profile

marimo

Reproducibility, Notebooks, Python

qisagent.com/stack/marimo
Intelligence · profile

Guardrails AI

Constraints, Kill criteria, Validation

qisagent.com/stack/guardrails-ai
Capital · hub

QISFund — the capital layer

Quantitative investment strategies, Market structure, Systematic investing

qisfund.com/
Capital · article

The QIS Ecosystem

The QIS Ecosystem, MARQUE, Clause library, KYA, Schedule, Governed quantity, Knowledge graph

qisfund.com/ecosystem/
Capital · reference

What QIS means

Quantitative investment strategies, Definitions, Quantum information science

qisfund.com/qis
Capital · index

The QIS strategy taxonomy

Strategy taxonomy, Risk premia, Systematic investing

qisfund.com/strategies/
Capital · article

Trend following & time-series momentum

Trend, Momentum, Managed futures, Crisis alpha

qisfund.com/strategies/trend-following
Capital · article

Carry strategies

Carry, FX, Rates, Risk premia

qisfund.com/strategies/carry
Capital · article

Volatility risk premia

Volatility, Options, Risk premia, Dispersion

qisfund.com/strategies/volatility-risk-premia
Capital · article

Equity style premia

Equity factors, Value, Quality, Equity

qisfund.com/strategies/equity-style-premia
Capital · article

Defensive overlays

Hedging, Tail risk, Volatility targeting

qisfund.com/strategies/defensive-overlays
Capital · article

Multi-asset construction

Portfolio construction, Risk parity, Multi-asset

qisfund.com/strategies/multi-asset-portfolios
Capital · reference

The QIS glossary

Definitions, Quantitative investment strategies, Vocabulary

qisfund.com/glossary/
Capital · utility

The QIS knowledge graph

Ontology, Knowledge graph, Quantitative investment strategies

qisfund.com/graph/
Capital · utility

The Signals briefing

Newsletter, Research

qisfund.com/signals/
Capital · legal

Editorial standards

Editorial standards

qisfund.com/about
Capital · legal

Licensing and institutional inquiries

Corporate

qisfund.com/acquisition
Capital · index

The QIS partner register

Partnerships, Directory, Vendor evaluation, Disclosure

qisfund.com/partners/
Capital · legal

Media kit & audience

Partnerships, Corporate

qisfund.com/partners/media-kit
Capital · profile

QuantConnect

Platforms, Backtesting, Python, Vendor evaluation

qisfund.com/partners/quantconnect
Capital · profile

vectorbt

Backtesting, Python, Vendor evaluation

qisfund.com/partners/vectorbt
Capital · profile

MLFinLab

Machine learning, Research, Python, Vendor evaluation

qisfund.com/partners/mlfinlab
Capital · profile

Numerai

Crowdsourced research, Machine learning, Research, Vendor evaluation

qisfund.com/partners/numerai
Capital · profile

Massive

Market data, APIs, Vendor evaluation

qisfund.com/partners/massive
Capital · profile

Databento

Market data, Microstructure, Vendor evaluation

qisfund.com/partners/databento
Capital · profile

Interactive Brokers

Execution, Brokerage, APIs, Vendor evaluation

qisfund.com/partners/interactive-brokers
Capital · profile

Alpaca

Execution, Brokerage, APIs, Vendor evaluation

qisfund.com/partners/alpaca
Capital · profile

The Signals Briefing

Newsletter, Research, Vendor evaluation

qisfund.com/partners/qis-signals
Capital · index

The concept layer

Definitions, Ontology, Vocabulary

qisfund.com/concepts/
Capital · reference

Model drift

Model drift, Model risk, Oversight

qisfund.com/concepts/model-drift
Capital · reference

Point-in-time correctness

Data integrity, Backtesting, Market data

qisfund.com/concepts/point-in-time-correctness
Capital · reference

Kill criteria

Kill criteria, Oversight, Authority

qisfund.com/concepts/kill-criteria
Capital · reference

Model provenance

Provenance, Auditability, Model risk

qisfund.com/concepts/model-provenance
Capital · reference

Chain of title for models

Rights, Provenance, Identity

qisfund.com/concepts/chain-of-title
Capital · reference

Agent memory

Agent memory, Agentic finance, Auditability

qisfund.com/concepts/agent-memory
Capital · reference

Retrieval pipelines

Retrieval, RAG, Provenance

qisfund.com/concepts/retrieval-pipelines
Capital · reference

GraphRAG

GraphRAG, Knowledge graph, Retrieval

qisfund.com/concepts/graphrag
Capital · reference

Financial ontologies

Ontology, Standards, Knowledge graph

qisfund.com/concepts/financial-ontologies
Capital · reference

Autonomous governance

Governance, Authority, Accountability

qisfund.com/concepts/autonomous-governance
Capital · reference

Synthetic data

Synthetic data, Backtesting, Model risk

qisfund.com/concepts/synthetic-data
Capital · reference

Reproducibility

Reproducibility, Auditability, Backtesting

qisfund.com/concepts/reproducibility
Capital · reference

Materiality-based oversight

Model risk, Oversight, Governance

qisfund.com/concepts/materiality-based-oversight
Capital · reference

Bounded autonomy

Authority, Governance, Kill criteria

qisfund.com/concepts/bounded-autonomy
Capital · reference

Agent identity

Identity, Authority, Auditability

qisfund.com/concepts/agent-identity
Governance · utility

Schedule Builder

Schedule, Governed quantity, Conformance, Clause library

qistrust.com/schedule-builder/
Governance · implementation

QIS Reference Gate (RG-01)

Reference gate, Governed quantity, Conformance, Schedule, Model drift, Auditability

qistrust.com/reference-gate/
Governance · hub

QISTrust — the governance layer

Governance, Fiduciary duty, Accountability

qistrust.com/
Governance · article

The agent governance framework

Governance, Authority, Oversight, Auditability, Accountability

qistrust.com/framework/
Governance · article

The Agent Oversight Framework

Oversight, Model risk, Kill criteria, Model drift

qistrust.com/governance/
Governance · article

Audit & compliance mapping

Audit, Model risk regulation, EU AI Act, Model risk

qistrust.com/audit/
Governance · article

Fiduciary standards

Fiduciary duty, Duty of care, Governance

qistrust.com/fiduciary/
Governance · article

MARQUE — the agent authority framework

MARQUE, Governance, Authority, Accountability, Oversight

qistrust.com/marque/
Governance · index

The standards register

Standards register, Governance, Standards

qistrust.com/standards/
Governance · reference

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Standards register, Authority, Identity

qistrust.com/standards/mcp
Governance · reference

Agent-to-Agent (A2A)

Standards register, Identity, Systemic behavior

qistrust.com/standards/a2a
Governance · reference

OpenTelemetry

Standards register, Auditability, Oversight

qistrust.com/standards/opentelemetry
Governance · reference

NIST AI Risk Management Framework

Standards register, Oversight, Model drift

qistrust.com/standards/nist-ai-rmf
Governance · reference

ISO/IEC 42001

Standards register, Accountability, Oversight

qistrust.com/standards/iso-42001
Governance · reference

FDC3

Standards register, Standards, Identity

qistrust.com/standards/fdc3
Governance · reference

FIX Protocol

Standards register, Auditability, Standards

qistrust.com/standards/fix
Governance · reference

XBRL

Standards register, Standards, Auditability

qistrust.com/standards/xbrl
Governance · reference

SR 26-2 (Revised Model Risk Management)

Standards register, Oversight, Accountability

qistrust.com/standards/sr-26-2
Governance · reference

IMDA Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI

Standards register, Authority, Oversight

qistrust.com/standards/imda-mgf-agentic
Governance · reference

IOSCO Supervisory Toolkit for AI Use in Capital Markets

Standards register, Oversight, Systemic behavior

qistrust.com/standards/iosco-toolkit
Governance · reference

Financial Services AI Risk Management Framework (FS AI RMF)

Standards register, Oversight, Accountability

qistrust.com/standards/fs-ai-rmf
Governance · reference

AIEOG Shared AI Lexicon

Standards register, Standards, Identity

qistrust.com/standards/aieog-lexicon
Governance · reference

DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act)

Standards register, Accountability, Oversight

qistrust.com/standards/dora
Governance · reference

ISO 20022

Standards register, Standards, Auditability

qistrust.com/standards/iso-20022
Governance · reference

FDX (Financial Data Exchange) API

Standards register, Authority, Identity

qistrust.com/standards/fdx
Governance · reference

W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)

Standards register, Identity, Authority

qistrust.com/standards/w3c-did
Governance · reference

NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0

Standards register, Oversight, Accountability

qistrust.com/standards/nist-csf-2
Governance · reference

ACP (Agent Communication Protocol) — superseded

Standards register, Standards

qistrust.com/standards/acp
Governance · article

The 2026 jurisdictional divergence on agentic AI

Jurisdictional analysis, Governance, Model risk regulation, Supervision, Authority

qistrust.com/jurisdictions/
Governance · article

MARQUE × the 230 control objectives

Control objectives, Conformance, Governance, Oversight, Auditability

qistrust.com/crosswalk/
Governance · legal

The verification register

Verification, Editorial standards

qistrust.com/verification/
Governance · legal

Legal, Legal notice, Data rights, Licensing, Rights

qistrust.com/legal
Governance · legal

Data License — QIS Ecosystem Dual License

Data rights, Licensing, Rights

qistrust.com/license/
Governance · index

The QIS Canon — agent-to-agent lexicon

The QIS Canon, Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary, Ontology, Definitions

qistrust.com/canon/
Governance · reference

The QIS ontology specification

Ontology specification, Ontology, Knowledge graph

qistrust.com/canon/ontology
Governance · reference

Agent Card

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/agent-card
Governance · reference

Agent Identity

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/agent-identity
Governance · reference

Agent Registry

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/agent-registry
Governance · reference

Trust Boundary

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/trust-boundary
Governance · reference

Capability Discovery

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/capability-discovery
Governance · reference

Tool Manifest

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/tool-manifest
Governance · reference

Tool Invocation

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/tool-invocation
Governance · reference

Task Delegation

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/task-delegation
Governance · reference

Context Window

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/context-window
Governance · reference

Agent Memory

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/agent-memory
Governance · reference

Context Exchange

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/context-exchange
Governance · reference

Prompt Injection

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/prompt-injection
Governance · reference

Human-in-the-Loop

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/human-in-the-loop
Governance · reference

Human Override

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/human-override
Governance · reference

Guardrails

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/guardrails
Governance · reference

Audit Trail

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/audit-trail
Governance · reference

Model Context Protocol

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary, Agent protocols

qistrust.com/canon/mcp
Governance · reference

Agent2Agent

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary, Agent protocols

qistrust.com/canon/a2a
Governance · reference

Agent orchestration

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary, Agent protocols

qistrust.com/canon/orchestration
Governance · reference

Authority Grant

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/authority-grant
Governance · reference

Agent Decision Record

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/decision-record
Governance · reference

Authority Envelope

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/authority-envelope
Governance · reference

Decentralized Identifier

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/decentralized-identifier
Governance · reference

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/consent-grant
Governance · reference

Authority

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/authority
Governance · reference

Oversight

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/oversight
Governance · reference

Drift

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/drift
Governance · reference

Auditability

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/auditability
Governance · reference

Accountability

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/accountability
Governance · reference

Identity

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/identity
Governance · reference

Systemic behavior

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/systemic-behavior
Governance · reference

Conformance

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/conformance
Governance · reference

Directional

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/directional
Governance · reference

Income

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/income
Governance · reference

Risk premium

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/risk-premium
Governance · reference

Derivatives

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/derivatives
Governance · reference

Cross-sectional

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/cross-sectional
Governance · reference

Protection

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/protection
Governance · reference

Construction

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/construction
Governance · reference

Observability

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/observability
Governance · reference

Orchestration

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/orchestration-cat
Governance · reference

Evaluation

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/evaluation
Governance · reference

Experiment tracking

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/experiment-tracking
Governance · reference

Retrieval

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/retrieval
Governance · reference

Vector search

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/vector-search
Governance · reference

Graph database

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/graph-database
Governance · reference

Lineage

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/lineage
Governance · reference

Data quality

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/data-quality
Governance · reference

Ingestion

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/ingestion
Governance · reference

Transformation

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/transformation
Governance · reference

Analytics engine

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/analytics-engine
Governance · reference

Research environment

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/research-environment
Governance · reference

Constraints

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/constraints
Governance · reference

Fiduciary duty

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/fiduciary-duty
Governance · reference

Duty of care

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/duty-of-care
Governance · reference

Effective challenge

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/effective-challenge
Governance · reference

Kill Functionality

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/kill-functionality
Governance · reference

Restart Condition

Lexicon, Agent-to-agent vocabulary

qistrust.com/canon/restart-condition
Governance · article

KYA — Know Your Agent

KYA, Readiness assessment, Evidence, Governance, Diligence, Underwriting

qistrust.com/kya/
Governance · reference

KYA methodology

KYA, Readiness assessment, Conformance

qistrust.com/kya/method
Governance · index

The QIS clause library

Clause library, Governance, Instruments, Form book

qistrust.com/clause-library/
Governance · instrument

The Agent Authority Grant

Clause library, Authority, Agency law, Market access rule

qistrust.com/clause-library/agent-authority-grant
Governance · instrument

The Kill-Switch Covenant

Clause library, Model drift, Kill switch, RTS 6

qistrust.com/clause-library/kill-switch-covenant
Governance · instrument

Model Provenance Representations

Clause library, Identity, Provenance, Chain of title, Third-party dependency

qistrust.com/clause-library/model-provenance-representations
Governance · instrument

The Stressed Conditions Annex

Clause library, Systemic behavior, Model drift, Stress testing

qistrust.com/clause-library/stressed-conditions-annex
Governance · instrument

The Schedule Set

Clause library, Conformance, Provenance, Schedule

qistrust.com/clause-library/schedule-set
Governance · MARQUE question

Authority

What is the agent permitted to commit, and who granted that?

qistrust.com/marque/#authority
Governance · MARQUE question

Oversight

Who is accountable in the interval between decision and review?

qistrust.com/marque/#oversight
Governance · MARQUE question

Drift

How is behavioral change detected before it becomes loss?

qistrust.com/marque/#drift
Governance · MARQUE question

Auditability

Can a decision be reconstructed months later, exactly?

qistrust.com/marque/#auditability
Governance · MARQUE question

Accountability

When it goes wrong, who answers?

qistrust.com/marque/#accountability
Governance · MARQUE question

Identity

What is the agent, legally, and to whom does its output belong?

qistrust.com/marque/#identity
Governance · MARQUE question

Systemic behavior

What happens when many agents converge on the same trade?

qistrust.com/marque/#systemic
Governance · MARQUE question

Standards & interoperability

What does conformance actually mean here?

qistrust.com/marque/#standards
Governance · KYA dimension

D01 — Authority

Can you produce the instrument that permits your agent to commit, and its limits?

qistrust.com/kya/#D01
Governance · KYA dimension

D02 — Oversight

Can you state the interval between an agent's decision and human review, and prove it holds?

qistrust.com/kya/#D02
Governance · KYA dimension

D03 — Drift

Can you produce the pre-committed threshold at which the agent is stopped?

qistrust.com/kya/#D03
Governance · KYA dimension

D04 — Auditability

Can you reconstruct a specific decision from six months ago, exactly?

qistrust.com/kya/#D04
Governance · KYA dimension

D05 — Accountability

Can you name the individual who answers for this agent's consequences?

qistrust.com/kya/#D05
Governance · KYA dimension

D06 — Agent identity

Can you attribute a specific action to a specific agent, and say who owns its output?

qistrust.com/kya/#D06
Governance · KYA dimension

D07 — Systemic behavior

Do you know whether your agent is doing what everyone else's agent is doing?

qistrust.com/kya/#D07
Governance · KYA dimension

D08 — Conformance

Can you state which standard you conform to, and demonstrate it rather than claim it?

qistrust.com/kya/#D08
Governance · KYA dimension

D09 — Written program

Can you produce a board-acknowledged AI systems program covering the agent lifecycle?

qistrust.com/kya/#D09
Governance · KYA dimension

D10 — System inventory

Can you produce a current inventory of every agent in production, with risk tiers?

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Governance · KYA dimension

D11 — Third-party dependency

Can you produce the diligence file and audit rights for the models you did not build?

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Governance · KYA dimension

D12 — Incident tracking

Can you produce the log of every adverse outcome involving an agent, and its remediation?

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Governance · working paper

Governing Delegated Authority in Autonomous Finance: The MARQUE Framework for Institutional Accountability Beyond Model Risk

Working paper describing MARQUE v1.0, submitted to SSRN.

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The Vocabulary

The concepts that connect them.

Each concept below is a node in the graph, not an edge — a subject shared by every document that addresses it. Two documents that share one are connected by an addresses edge, which is what makes them related rather than merely adjacent. Definitions for the terms of art live in the glossary.

Agent-to-agent vocabulary Accountability Agency law Agent memory Agent orchestration Agent protocols Agentic finance AI observability Analytics APIs Audit Auditability Authority Backtesting Brokerage The QIS Canon Carry Chain of title Clause library Code models Conformance Constraints Control objectives Corporate Crisis alpha Crowdsourced research Data integrity Data rights Definitions Diligence Directory Disclosure Dispersion Model drift Durable execution Duty of care The QIS Ecosystem Editorial standards Enterprise Equity EU AI Act Evaluation Evidence Execution Experiment tracking Equity factors Fiduciary duty Form book FX Governance Governed quantity Graph databases GraphRAG Hedging Identity Infrastructure Ingestion Instruments Jurisdictional analysis Kill criteria Kill switch Knowledge graph KYA Legal Lexicon Licensing Data lineage Machine learning Managed futures Market access rule Market data Market structure Market tape MARQUE Microstructure Model risk Model risk regulation Momentum Multi-agent systems Multi-asset Newsletter Notebooks Legal notice Ontology Ontology specification Options Orchestration Oversight Partnerships Pipelines Platforms Portfolio construction Prompt orchestration Provenance Python Quantitative investment strategies Quality Quantum information science RAG Rates Readiness assessment Reference gate Market regime Reproducibility Research Retrieval Rights Risk parity Risk premia RTS 6 Schedule Standards Standards register Streaming Stress testing Supervision Synthetic data Systematic investing Systemic behavior Tail risk Strategy taxonomy Third-party dependency Transformation Trend Underwriting Validation Value Vector search Vendor evaluation Verification Vocabulary Volatility targeting Volatility End-to-end walkthrough Workflows
Open Data

The ontology is the product.

Structured documents are published at stable URLs, served with permissive CORS headers and long cache lifetimes. They are versioned, they will not move, and they are meant to be consumed by other people's software:

  • /api/graph.json — the full node and edge set, with a fixed layout, the node-type and relationship-verb ontology, and each node's own context-bundle URL.
  • /api/graph/context/<id>.json — one file per node: its bounded two-hop neighborhood, with term definitions inlined, so a retrieval system fetches one small document instead of the whole graph to reason about one thing. id is any node id from graph.json, with : and / replaced by -.
  • /api/pages.json — every canonical URL across the three domains, with titles, descriptions, layers, and topics.
  • /api/glossary.json — the canonical QIS definitions as structured terms.

The same graph is also published as real W3C RDF, not a JSON shape a consumer has to be taught: /api/graph.ttl and /api/graph.jsonld are every node and edge as RDF individuals and typed triples, each node's own real URL as its subject; /api/ontology.ttl is the class and property hierarchy behind them, including verified alignments to PROV-O, SKOS, and one FIBO class; /api/shapes.ttl is SHACL — the structural rules this build already enforces, restated so an external validator can check them independently. All four are re-parsed and SHACL-validated on every build, not merely written and trusted.

All are also described in llms.txt and llms-full.txt for retrieval systems. Every one of these is static, precomputed at build time, and served from the edge — no query surface, no runtime compute, nothing to rate-limit. Attribution to the source URL is the only thing asked in return.