Aether Request sandbox

TRUST

Built for the trust advice requires.

Where regulatory values come from, how records are protected, and what remains adviser-owned. Plain English, all on one page.

REGULATORY GOVERNANCE

Regulatory values are governed, not guessed.

Every regulatory value used by Aether's advice stack traces to a dated pack with source provenance and reviewer approval. Production refuses unapproved packs. CI scans for direct hard-coded regulatory values. When required data is missing, Aether fails closed instead of inventing an answer.

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    Dated packs

    Regulatory values live in dated files, not scattered through page copy or calculations.

  2. 02

    Source provenance

    Packs carry source notes so a reviewer can trace where values came from.

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    Reviewer approval

    Packs require explicit approval before production accepts them.

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    Production guard

    Production application startup refuses unapproved regulatory packs.

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    Fail closed

    Missing values produce reviewable insufficient-data states, not fabricated output.

ADVISER / RELEASE AUTHORITY

What this means for advisers

You still own the advice. Aether makes the inputs, assumptions, and regulatory values easier to inspect before you sign.

Data storage.

PostgreSQL 18 on DigitalOcean Managed Postgres in the Sydney region. Encrypted at rest. Daily snapshots retained per DO's managed backup policy.

Sessions.

Cookie-based sessions signed with itsdangerous via Starlette's SessionMiddleware. Passwords hashed with bcrypt. No third-party auth provider, no SSO sprawl, no session tokens in third-party hands.

Audit logging.

Every adviser action - record edit, document generation, fact-find change - is logged with adviser ID, timestamp, and IP. Reviewable inside the app.

Advice reasoning.

Aether records why strategies were recommended, deferred, or rejected, so the compliance story includes alternatives considered, not only the recommendation that reaches the document.

Where it runs.

DigitalOcean Sydney region. App on a hardened droplet behind Caddy 2 with TLS, HSTS, and security headers. Object storage in DigitalOcean Spaces, also Sydney region.

ADVISER-REVIEWED AI

AI and your data.

Vesper is being brought into the pilot as an adviser-reviewed assistant. AI-assisted drafting will stay behind context packs, proposal review, confirmation gates, and audit events; it will not sign, execute, or give advice on its own.

  1. 01CONTEXT PACKS
  2. 02PROPOSAL REVIEW
  3. 03CONFIRMATION GATES
  4. 04AUDIT EVENTS

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Questions?

Email reid@aetherforge.au or request a sandbox walkthrough.