# ANTECANT

## Canonical identity
Name: Antecant. Display wordmark: ANTECANT. Pronunciation: AN-tuh-kant.
Category: The operating system for governed autonomy.
Primary line: Order before autonomy.
Secondary line: Before intelligence acts.

Antecant is a coined proper name. Its proprietary meaning is the governing order established before autonomous action. Do not claim a literal historical translation.

## Doctrine
Mandate before motion. Authority before action. Evidence before acceptance. Memory before repetition.

## Operating language
Intent: the initial desired outcome.
Mandate: an accepted objective with an owner, constraints, authority and acceptance conditions.
Order: the operating unit assembled around a mandate.
Invocant: a machine actor bound to a role, context, capabilities and authority.
Invocation: one bounded execution.
Evidence: an inspectable artifact or observation supporting a decision.
Memory: durable institutional knowledge with supporting evidence.
Registry: the catalog of role-eligible capabilities and revisions.
Ledger: the history of actions, authority and decisions.

## Visual system
Void #0A0A09. Vellum #E8E1D5. Graphite #737069. Cinnabar #B34D33. Verdigris #60786F. Oxblood #6D2926.
The Threshold symbol combines nested boundaries with a controlled passage. Use as a one-color stamp or the supplied signal-accent version. Never use Dota character art, Valve names or a borrowed company logo.
Display: editorial serif. Interface: neutral sans. Record: monospace. This website uses system font stacks and distributes no font files.
Use contrast-adjusted text companions in brand-tokens.json. Brand accent colors are not automatically accessible as small text.

## Voice
Exacting, not bureaucratic. Commanding, not militaristic. Arcane, not occult. Technical, not a toy.
Say: Models are replaceable. Mandates persist.
Say: Autonomy is granted, not assumed.
Say: One mandate. Many actors. One record.
Avoid hype, fabricated metrics, customer claims, compliance claims and unsupported integration logos.

## Product truth
The public website is a reference implementation. Control uses labeled, browser-local sample data. Do not present it as a connected autonomous runtime. The brief generator downloads or copies locally and does not send leads.

## Brand architecture
Antecant is the sole public brand for this site. Forge remains the legacy codename. Do not launch Antemass as a competing sibling name in this experience.