WMI Series · Volume I

The Organizational World Model

GrytLabs Research Institute · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21073276

The argument

Six technical reports carry the thesis; each draws on the research sprints beneath it.

Organizations persistently fail at governance documentation, accountability verification, and knowledge retention. The audit profession's documented record establishes that this failure i…

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TR-A-002The Architectural Necessity

TR-A-001 established that organizations face a structural gap between governance requirements and governance infrastructure — a finding validated by convergence across six independent tra…

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TR-A-003The Authority Architecture

The structural gap identified in TR-A-001 — the absence of infrastructure that makes governance context a structural by-product of organizational operation — has a specific structural sha…

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TR-A-004The Externalization Path

Governance knowledge systems fail. The evidence is unambiguous: knowledge management initiatives report 50–70% failure rates across three decades of investment (Davenport & Prusak, 1998),…

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TR-D-001The World Model Definition

Eighty years after Kenneth Craik proposed that the brain carries "small-scale models" of external reality, the term "world model" remains formally undefined. The AI research community use…

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TR-L-001The Organizational World Model — Convergent Validation and Architectural Extension

This report maps the research field as it bears on the organizational world model — the governed constraint infrastructure through which organizations represent state, enforce boundaries,…

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The evidence

Twenty research reports — the surveyed literature the argument stands on.

RA-001Decision Lineage & Provenance RA-002AI Governance & Responsible AI RA-003Organizational Memory & Knowledge Management RA-004Accountability & Enterprise Governance RA-005Semantic Web & Knowledge Representation RA-006Audit, Compliance & RegTech RA-007Governance Maturity, Not Capability — Federal Grants Compliance as Among the Hardest AI Readiness Environments RA-008World Models & Organizational Prediction RA-009Organizational Cybernetics & the Viable System Model RA-010Decision Cognition and the Accountability Substrate RA-011Symmetry, Invariance, and Organizational Conservation Laws RA-012Agentic Delegation, Multi-Agent Governance & the Protocol Gap RA-013Knowledge Engineering, Methodology Extraction & Organizational Translation RA-014Organizational Learning, Exploration/Exploitation & Institutional Adaptation RA-015Gap Analysis — Five-Frontier Convergent Validation RA-016Holonic Systems, Boundary Architectures & Nested Autonomy RA-017Governance-First Multi-Agent Collaboration Architecture RA-018Neurosymbolic AI, Hybrid Architectures & the Three Mechanisms RA-019Language, Cognition & World Models: Why the Linguistic Layer Is Irreducible RA-020AI-Native Workforce Governance

Back matter

Coverage Mapthe corpus mapped across the disciplines Glossaryconcepts crystallized across the findings

Citation Chainhow each report draws on the ones beneath it