About Chronos
Why a Research Portal?
The Liana Banyan Platform is not a startup with a three-year history. It is a 37-year design project that has produced 2,270 documented innovations, 21 provisional patent applications, and 228 Crown Jewels. That record is not marketing material — it is a research archive.
Chronos exists because the archive deserves a research interface. Not a website timeline that cherry-picks milestones. A substrate query system that lets you ask real questions and get empirically grounded answers.
The Time-Class Commitment
Everything in Chronos is time-anchored. This is not optional:
- Every artifact has a
created_tsand (if applicable) amodified_ts - Every query includes a time-anchor parameter (date range, era, or BP session)
- Every result shows its temporal provenance — when the artifact was created, when it was canonized, when it was last verified
If a result cannot be time-anchored, it is flagged as temporal_class: unverified. Honest uncertainty is a feature.
The Eyewitness Benchmark
The Eyewitness Benchmark (BP053/BP054) established the cooperative’s empirical standard for historical corroboration. Using multi-model agreement scoring, the benchmark found 0.883 Haiku-Opus agreement on canonical historical claims.
Chronos uses this benchmark as its confidence floor:
| Agreement Score | Confidence Class | Display |
|---|---|---|
| ≥ 0.883 | High confidence | ✅ Corroborated |
| 0.70–0.882 | Moderate confidence | ⚠️ Partially corroborated |
| 0.50–0.699 | Low confidence | ⚠️ Weakly corroborated |
| < 0.50 | Disputed | ❌ Contested |
Cooperative-Class Research
Chronos is not a proprietary research tool. It is cooperative infrastructure:
- Members contribute — historical context submitted by Members enriches the substrate
- Citations are canonical — any Member who contributes a verified historical artifact receives a substrate receipt
- Provenance is transparent — every result shows its source (which Scribe, which session, which Member contribution)
Relationship to Pearl-CDN
Chronos and Pearl-CDN (Tier AA) are sister systems:
- Pearl-CDN serves atomic-wire primitives (current state)
- Chronos serves historical queries (temporal substrate)
A Chronos result may include a Pearl-CDN link for the underlying doctrine. A Pearl may link back to its Chronos provenance timeline.
Truth is not the absence of uncertainty. It is the honest accounting of it.