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SOVEREIGN LOGIC VERIFIED | ID: 3

A-LEG-PrecedentCheck

Audited BPS: 8496
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**50.5 HOURS / 50.5 HRS** Mathematical basis: Total displaced toil hours (manual_precedent_research: 18.5 + regulatory_compliance_audit: 12.3 + entity_similarity_analysis: 8.7 + temporal_decay_calculation: 4.2 + jurisdiction_cross_reference: 6.8) equals 50.5 hours per transaction cycle, eliminated by single-pass vectorized computation completing in 247 milliseconds.
Deterministic reduction of manual toil

Executive Summary

The A-LEG-PrecedentCheck logic automates the precedent-matching and regulatory-clearance workflow that previously required 50.5 hours of manual expert labor per transaction cycle. By applying vectorized similarity computation (Jaccard entity matching, cosine structure alignment, temporal decay modeling) against a 847-precedent corpus in 247 milliseconds, this system eliminates the need for Senior Legal Counsel to manually review historical transaction files, Compliance Analysts to cross-reference regulatory regimes, and Transaction Structurers to assess structural alignment—tasks that consumed 18.5, 12.3, and 8.7 hours respectively. The deterministic BPS score of 9946 confirms nominal operational health across all six component layers (database availability, query latency, algorithm accuracy, regulatory feed sync, cache performance, and dependency health), enabling real-time approval decisions with 98.47% confidence intervals rather than multi-day manual audit cycles.
Architect Judgement

In the pre-agentic economy, this workflow was executed by a distributed team of four expert roles operating across disconnected systems: a Senior Legal Counsel would manually search Bloomberg Terminal and internal deal databases (Excel-based precedent logs) for 6-8 hours, cross-referencing transaction structures against handwritten regulatory checklists; a Compliance Analyst would simultaneously maintain a separate regulatory tracking spreadsheet (updated quarterly, often stale) and manually verify DODD_FRANK/MIFID_II/BASEL_III applicability by consulting PDF regulatory documents and email chains with external counsel; a Transaction Structurer would use proprietary deal-modeling software (often Intex or custom VBA macros in Excel) to compute structural similarity scores by hand, comparing leg counts, entity types, and amount ranges against printed deal books; and a Regulatory Specialist would spend 4-6 hours per transaction validating that all blocking conditions were satisfied, often discovering mid-process that a regulatory feed was 30+ days stale, forcing restart of the entire cycle. The entire process—from initial request to final approval memo—consumed 50.5 hours across 5-7 calendar days, with 40% of time spent waiting for email responses from external counsel or re-running Excel models due to formula errors. This system eliminates that fragmentation entirely: the vectorized precedent engine replaces the Senior Counsel's manual database search, the regulatory constraint validator replaces the Compliance Analyst's spreadsheet maintenance, the similarity function replaces the Structurer's deal-modeling software, and the temporal decay calculator replaces the Regulatory Specialist's manual feed-age verification—all converging into a single 247-millisecond deterministic computation with auditable confidence intervals and zero human decision points.

01 / INPUT_MOCK
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  "transaction_id": "TXN-US-202501151447-A7F2E9C1",
  "entity_context": {
    "primary_entity": {
      "entity_id": "ENT-0047382910",
      "entity_type": "CORPORATION",
      "lei": "5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12",
      "jurisdiction": "US",
      "risk_rating": "LOW"
    },
    "counterparties": [
      {
        "entity_id": "ENT-0051924567",
        "entity_type": "FUND",
        "lei": "549300VUFX7ZCXVXZZ22",
        "jurisdiction": "LU",
        "risk_rating": "LOW"
      },
      {
        "entity_id": "ENT-0063847291",
        "entity_type": "SPV",
        "lei": "5493001ABCDEFGHIJKL3",
        "jurisdiction": "IE",
        "risk_rating": "MEDIUM"
      },
      {
        "entity_id": "ENT-0072156483",
        "entity_type": "CORPORATION",
        "lei": "549300MNOPQRSTUVWXY4",
        "jurisdiction": "GB",
        "risk_rating": "LOW"
      }
    ],
    "beneficial_owners": [
      {
        "entity_id": "ENT-0081934756",
        "entity_type": "INDIVIDUAL",
        "lei": "549300ZYXWVUTSRQPON5",
        "jurisdiction": "US",
        "risk_rating": "LOW"
      },
      {
        "entity_id": "ENT-0095627384",
        "entity_type": "TRUST",
        "lei": "549300ABCDEFGHIJKLM6",
        "jurisdiction": "CH",
        "risk_rating": "LOW"
      }
    ]
  },
  "amount": {
    "value": 487250000.5,
    "currency": "USD",
    "value_usd_equivalent": 487250000.5
  },
  "structure": {
    "type": "MULTI_LEG",
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    "complexity_score": 0.78
  },
  "timestamp": "2025-01-15T14:47:32.847Z",
  "jurisdiction": {
    "primary": "US",
    "secondary": [
      "LU",
      "IE",
      "GB",
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    "regulatory_regime": "DODD_FRANK"
  },
  "precedent_search_params": {
    "lookback_days": 1095,
    "minimum_similarity_threshold": 0.72,
    "max_results": 15,
    "include_rejected_precedents": false
  },
  "metadata": {
    "request_source": "SYNTHESIS_LEDGER_AGENTIC_OS_v4.2.1",
    "correlation_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "priority": "HIGH"
  }
}
02 / SYNTHESIS_OUTCOME
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  "synthesis_id": "SYN-LEG-20250115-A7F2E9C1-PLATINUM",
  "logic_id": "A-LEG-PrecedentCheck",
  "bps_verified": 8496,
  "model_stack": [
    "PRECEDENT_MATCHING_ENGINE_v3.7",
    "TEMPORAL_DECAY_CALCULATOR_v2.1",
    "REGULATORY_CONSTRAINT_VALIDATOR_v4.3",
    "SIMILARITY_VECTOR_PROCESSOR_v5.2"
  ],
  "processing_ms": 247,
  "timestamp": "2025-01-15T14:47:33.094Z",
  "transaction_id": "TXN-US-202501151447-A7F2E9C1",
  "status": "APPROVED_WITH_PRECEDENT",
  "adjusted_score": 0.8847,
  "confidence_interval": {
    "lower_bound": 0.8612,
    "upper_bound": 0.9082,
    "confidence_level": 0.9847
  },
  "matched_artifact_pointers": [
    {
      "precedent_id": "PREC-2024-0847-MULTI_LEG_SYNDICATION",
      "similarity_score": 0.9123,
      "temporal_decay_applied": 0.9456,
      "adjusted_match_score": 0.8634,
      "precedent_date": "2024-11-22T09:15:47.000Z",
      "days_ago": 54,
      "outcome": "APPROVED",
      "entity_overlap_count": 3,
      "structure_alignment": 0.8912,
      "amount_proximity_ratio": 0.9734,
      "jurisdiction_match": 1,
      "regulatory_regime_match": "DODD_FRANK"
    },
    {
      "precedent_id": "PREC-2024-0756-CROSS_BORDER_FUND_STRUCTURE",
      "similarity_score": 0.8734,
      "temporal_decay_applied": 0.9234,
      "adjusted_match_score": 0.8067,
      "precedent_date": "2024-10-18T11:32:15.000Z",
      "days_ago": 89,
      "outcome": "APPROVED",
      "entity_overlap_count": 2,
      "structure_alignment": 0.8456,
      "amount_proximity_ratio": 0.9512,
      "jurisdiction_match": 0.5,
      "regulatory_regime_match": "MIFID_II"
    },
    {
      "precedent_id": "PREC-2024-0623-SYNDICATED_CORPORATE_TRANSACTION",
      "similarity_score": 0.8234,
      "temporal_decay_applied": 0.8945,
      "adjusted_match_score": 0.7367,
      "precedent_date": "2024-09-05T14:22:08.000Z",
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      "outcome": "APPROVED",
      "entity_overlap_count": 1,
      "structure_alignment": 0.7834,
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      "jurisdiction_match": 1,
      "regulatory_regime_match": "DODD_FRANK"
    },
    {
      "precedent_id": "PREC-2024-0512-MULTI_JURISDICTION_SPV_DEPLOYMENT",
      "similarity_score": 0.7945,
      "temporal_decay_applied": 0.8723,
      "adjusted_match_score": 0.6934,
      "precedent_date": "2024-08-12T16:45:22.000Z",
      "days_ago": 156,
      "outcome": "APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS",
      "entity_overlap_count": 2,
      "structure_alignment": 0.7612,
      "amount_proximity_ratio": 0.8834,
      "jurisdiction_match": 0.5,
      "regulatory_regime_match": "BASEL_III"
    }
  ],
  "regulatory_clearance_matrix": {
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      "status": "COMPLIANT",
      "confidence": 0.9834,
      "last_regulatory_feed_sync": "2025-01-15T14:32:18.000Z",
      "feed_age_seconds": 914,
      "applicable_rules": [
        "SECTION_165_SYSTEMIC_RISK",
        "SECTION_619_VOLCKER_RULE",
        "SECTION_956_COMPENSATION_CLAWBACK"
      ]
    },
    "MIFID_II": {
      "status": "COMPLIANT",
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      "last_regulatory_feed_sync": "2025-01-15T14:31:47.000Z",
      "feed_age_seconds": 945,
      "applicable_rules": [
        "ARTICLE_27_BEST_EXECUTION",
        "ARTICLE_24_CONFLICTS_OF_INTEREST",
        "ARTICLE_36_PRODUCT_GOVERNANCE"
      ]
    },
    "BASEL_III": {
      "status": "COMPLIANT",
      "confidence": 0.9456,
      "last_regulatory_feed_sync": "2025-01-15T14:33:02.000Z",
      "feed_age_seconds": 832,
      "applicable_rules": [
        "PILLAR_1_MINIMUM_CAPITAL",
        "PILLAR_2_SUPERVISORY_REVIEW",
        "PILLAR_3_MARKET_DISCIPLINE"
      ]
    }
  },
  "displaced_toil_hours": {
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    "regulatory_compliance_audit": 12.3,
    "entity_similarity_analysis": 8.7,
    "temporal_decay_calculation": 4.2,
    "jurisdiction_cross_reference": 6.8,
    "total_displaced_hours": 50.5,
    "expert_roles_displaced": [
      "SENIOR_LEGAL_COUNSEL",
      "COMPLIANCE_ANALYST",
      "TRANSACTION_STRUCTURER",
      "REGULATORY_SPECIALIST"
    ]
  },
  "blocking_conditions": [],
  "processing_metadata": {
    "processing_time_ms": 247,
    "precedents_evaluated": 847,
    "precedents_matched": 4,
    "cache_hit": true,
    "cache_source": "REDIS_CLUSTER_PRIMARY_US_EAST_1",
    "algorithm_version": "A-LEG-PrecedentCheck-v3.7.2",
    "node_id": "SYNTH-NODE-047-US-EAST-1C",
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    "temporal_decay_calculations": 847,
    "regulatory_constraint_checks": 12,
    "confidence_interval_bootstrap_iterations": 10000
  },
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      "severity_multiplier": 1,
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    "query_latency": {
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    },
    "match_algorithm_accuracy": {
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      "weight": 0.2,
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    },
    "regulatory_feed_sync": {
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  },
  "bps_calculation_detail": {
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  "audit_trail": {
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    "similarity_computation_timestamp": "2025-01-15T14:47:33.034Z",
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    "response_generated_timestamp": "2025-01-15T14:47:33.094Z",
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}