Doyle-Spare Research
Doyle-Spare Construct

Governance Latency

The structural lag between agent execution and the institution's ability to validate that execution rested on authorized meaning.

Why it matters

Shows why retrospective review is insufficient for autonomous execution.

Control relationship

Authorized meaning must remain connected to the meaning operationalized at runtime.

Governance Latency is the delay between execution and institutional validation, creating both control exposure and downstream economic cost when intervention occurs after the earliest governable checkpoint.