The Authoritative Event Ledger for High-Consequence Life Transitions

The Problem

Electronic record systems were built for storage. Not for defensibility.

In high-liability environments — health systems, organ procurement organizations, state registries, probate courts — ambiguity in event sequencing creates measurable legal, regulatory, and reputational exposure.

When a patient dies, that event triggers downstream obligations across a dozen institutions simultaneously: the hospital, the OPO, the state vital records office, the insurer, the SSA. Today, each institution manages its own record. None of them agree on sequence. None of them can prove sequence. That is the liability.

Evident enforces verifiable sequence integrity at the infrastructure layer — a cryptographically anchored, jurisdiction-normalized ledger that becomes the canonical reference every downstream system defers to.

The Platform

Five interlocking layers. Each one deepens institutional dependency.

L1	Authoritative Event Ledger	Cryptographically anchored, jurisdiction-normalized record of lifecycle events. Immutable timestamps. Complete event lineage. No state is ever lost.
L2	Institutional Routing Engine	Policy-driven routing to authorized endpoints with acknowledgment loops and retraction mechanics. Each workflow embedded deepens the moat.
L3	Compliance & Defensibility	Full event provenance, audit-ready export, and time-sequenced evidence for dispute and regulatory defense. Risk reduction as a recurring revenue driver.
L4	Integration Layer	Direct integrations into Epic, Cerner, state vital registries, OPO systems, courts, insurers, and SSA. Each integration is a structural switching cost.
L5	Intelligence & Data	Benchmarks, fraud detection, donation conversion analytics, jurisdictional variance reporting. Aggregated intelligence point solutions cannot replicate.

Roadmap

Four phases. Each expands TAM and deepens switching costs.

Phase 1	Death & Organ Donation	Mo. 1–12	Core ledger live. Epic & Cerner integrations. OPO network routing. 3 health systems + 2 state registries on production ledger.
Phase 2	Identity State Transitions	Mo. 13–24	Birth, guardianship, incapacity. Court integrations. Insurer routing. Intelligence Layer as external product. 10+ routing partners.
Phase 3	Financial Trigger Automation	Mo. 25–36	Authenticated events as automated financial triggers for insurers, SSA, and pension systems. Fraud detection module.
Phase 4	National Standardization	Mo. 37–48	Regulatory recognition from NCHS, CMS, SSA. De facto national infrastructure. API marketplace.

Market Timing

The window to build this is now.

State-level push for digital death registration, federal EHR mandates, post-pandemic organ donation reform, and escalating institutional liability pressure are converging simultaneously. Healthcare litigation exposure exceeds $55B annually in the US — with digital audit defensibility increasingly central to risk mitigation.

Epic and Cerner control 75%+ of inpatient EHR but cannot replicate state registry relationships. State registries control legal authority but cannot build routing infrastructure. Evident sits between them as neutral, indispensable infrastructure that both sides depend on. First-mover infrastructure advantage in this category is available today.