Governed Knowledge Artifacts
CogniMaps
Portable, governed knowledge artifacts. Structured reasoning layers compiled through adversarial review. Each CogniMap declares its intent, bounds its self-reference, preserves the failure topology that shaped it, and refuses to certify itself.
"A CogniMap may carry its own mirror, but not its own crown."
What a CogniMap Is
Not a prompt. Not a dataset. Not a fine-tune. A CogniMap is a portable artifact that encodes domain expertise as a structured reasoning layer, with explicit scope, documented gaps, and governed inference paths.
A CogniMap declares what it is trying to be, names what it is not, preserves the failures that shaped it under review, and travels across sessions as a durable reasoning structure. It is designed to preserve intent, constraints, and reasoning shape across model sessions and providers, reducing dependence on any single model's improvisation.
What CogniMaps Can Do
- Domain Research Concierge — Structured research interfaces for complex domains. Live example: the Polymarket CogniMap powering Neta.
- Field Expert Personas — Operational personas deployable across LLM sessions with encoded domain expertise and operational constraints.
- Adversarial Review Protocols — Governance artifacts defining reviewer roles, attack vectors, failure dispositions, and reconciliation procedures.
- Authorization and Identity Primitives — Micro-CogniMaps bounding authorization, identity verification, escalation, and self-modification.
- Substrate Governance — Infrastructure-level CogniMaps defining standards other CogniMaps must follow.
- Verifiable Assurance Artifacts — CogniMaps that structure claims, evidence, counterevidence, uncertainty, and confidence.
- Competitive Intelligence Maps — Structured analyses of market positioning and strategic landscape produced through governed compilation.
How CogniMaps Are Compiled
CogniMaps are not simply written; they are compiled. The compilation process uses frontier LLMs as cognitive tools while the human author supplies intent and adjudicates the final shape.
- Intent declaration — The author states what the artifact is trying to become.
- Adversarial review — Independent reviewers attack the proposed structure for vulnerabilities, overclaims, missing evidence, and weak boundaries.
- Failure metabolism — Critical findings receive explicit disposition: patched, rejected with rationale, accepted as bounded residual risk, forbidden from reintroduction, captured as a byproduct, escalated, or held for evidence.
- Reconciliation — Review findings are synthesized into versioned patches with preserved lineage.
- Promotion — Only after review does a CogniMap move toward semantic lock.
Live Now: Neta — Polymarket Research Concierge
The first publicly accessible CogniMap. Neta is a Polymarket research concierge powered by Gemini 2.5 Flash and shaped by a detailed Polymarket-domain reasoning layer.
Five Research Modes
- Market Explainer — Explain a market, event structure, or resolution mechanic in plain terms.
- Research Guide — Frame hypotheses, design research questions, plan quantitative tests.
- Risk Auditor — Surface resolution ambiguity, source fragility, and liquidity risk.
- System Designer — Build research pipelines and simulation components.
- Arbitration Assistant — Compare resolution interpretations, find conservative defensible paths.
The Standard
CogniMaps are governed by the emerging Higgs CogniMap Standard: a substrate-level specification for intent declaration, bounded self-reference, failure topology, byproduct promotion, assurance structure, and adversarial review. The standard is under active development and review.
"A CogniMap may carry its own mirror, but not its own crown."