The Relationships & Community Trust Layer
AI degrades the quality of relational evidence — deepfakes, generated messages, fabricated histories — while increasing demand for relational proof. PlenaProof provides accountable receipt grammar for verified human commitments that mature over time, span jurisdictions, and need to be acted on by others later. Five sub-protocols, one architectural foundation.
Five sub-protocols
Each protocol applies the four-layer architecture from Beyond the Will — identity and capacity attestation; intent and beneficiaries; asset or relational graph; versioning, trigger, and custody — to a specific class of verified human commitment.
Marriage & Partnership Protocol
Cross-border partnerships, religious-but-not-civil marriages, common-law partnerships needing later recognition, transnational and intercultural unions.
Care & Companionship Protocol
Long-term caregiving, chosen family, lifelong friendships outside formal marriage, mutual-aid commitments between non-married parties.
Mentorship & Recommendation Protocol
Accountable letters of recommendation, mentorship records, faith-community standing, professional vouching — with audit trails that survive institutional withholding.
Community Membership Protocol
Verified belonging in alumni networks, parishes, professional bodies, mutual-aid societies, faith communities — proof of long-standing membership that survives institutional change.
Healthcare & End-of-Life Protocol
Advance directives, healthcare proxies, mental-health advance directives, dying wishes. Related to but distinct from inheritance, which is covered separately by Beyond the Will.
Architectural foundation
The Relationships & Community Trust Layer extends the four-layer commitment-protocol architecture established in the PLENA white paper Beyond the Will. Inheritance was the first application of this architecture. The five sub-protocols above are five more. The architecture treats every long-arc human commitment as the same structural object: identity and capacity at the moment of commitment; intent and the parties to whom the commitment extends; the asset, relational, or institutional graph the commitment touches; and the versioning, trigger conditions, and custodial path that allow the commitment to be acted on by others, later.
Boundary. PlenaProof records verified human commitments. It does not replace marriage law, family law, healthcare law, or any community's internal governance. PlenaProof complements existing legal and institutional infrastructure with receipt grammar that survives the moments these instruments need to be acted on.