PMFA Manifest
Effective: 2026-01-12
Why Enterprise Software Failed
Enterprise software failed because it optimized for flexibility.
Flexibility produced:
- Hidden state
- Untraceable behavior
- Non-replayable outcomes
- Audit fiction
Configuration replaced law.
Discipline replaced enforcement.
Documentation replaced authority.
None of these scale under regulation.
PMFA does not fix these problems. PMFA eliminates their possibility.
1. System Before Product
PMFA is not a product.
Products are interfaces.
PMFA is a system of execution.
It defines what is allowed, denied, recorded, replayed, and audited.
Anything not enforced by the system does not exist.
2. Determinism Is Non-Negotiable
Given the same inputs, the system must produce the same outcomes.
Without determinism:
— audit is impossible
— accountability is fiction
— compliance is theater
Replay is not a feature.
Replay is due process.
3. Policy Precedes Code
Code executes.
Policy decides.
PMFA does not allow:
— hidden rules
— implicit authority
— undocumented exceptions
All behavior is declared, versioned, and enforced.
4. No-Engineering Principle
Business behavior changes without rebuilding the system.
Only within declared law.
Only within enforced constraints.
Flexibility without law is corruption.
5. Contracts Are Executable
Contracts are not documents.
They are executable rules.
If a clause cannot be enforced, it is invalid.
PMFA enforces contracts internally before action occurs.
6. Compliance Is Architecture
Compliance is not added.
It is designed.
Audit, traceability, replay, and versioning are structural properties of the system.
7. Final Position
PMFA does not ask for trust.
It replaces trust with enforcement.
The system is the law.
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