7/7 Audit PASS: Complete Phase 0–9.5 Compliance and Production Readiness
Date: November 10, 2025
Today we're announcing 7/7 PASS across all audit criteria through Phase 9.5. This milestone locks down a complete, verified, reproducible foundation for production AI operations.
What We Proved
Our comprehensive audit validated:
✅ 65% cost reduction (Phase 7.5) — Intelligent budget controller deployed in production
✅ Sub-millisecond security (Phase 9) — 0.102ms p50 latency, 100× under target
✅ Complete operational readiness (Phase 9.5) — SLO tracking, incident response playbooks, dashboards, observability
✅ LVPF provenance gates — All artifacts signed and immutable
✅ Zero unverified claims — Every metric linked to reproducible proof
The Numbers
Phase 7.5: Cost Reduction with Quality Improvement
| Metric | Value | Target | Status | | ------------------------ | ----- | ------ | --------------------- | | Cost reduction | 65% | ≥60% | ✅ PASS | | Pass@1 quality | 89% | ≥85% | ✅ PASS + improvement | | Routing latency overhead | <5ms | <10ms | ✅ PASS | | Deployment downtime | 0 | 0 | ✅ PASS |
What this means: We didn't sacrifice quality to reduce costs. We improved both simultaneously through intelligent multi-provider routing.
Phase 9: Security Agent Performance
| Metric | Value | Target | Status | | -------------------- | ------- | ------ | --------------------- | | P50 latency | 0.102ms | <10ms | ✅ PASS (100× margin) | | P95 latency | 0.205ms | <20ms | ✅ PASS (100× margin) | | Unauthorized actions | 0 | 0 | ✅ PASS | | Audit coverage | 100% | 100% | ✅ PASS |
What this means: Security enforcement is not a bottleneck. It's invisible—fast, transparent, and comprehensive.
Phase 9.5: Operational Readiness
✅ SLO tracking — Automated dashboards with alerting
✅ Incident response playbooks — Tested, documented, ready to execute
✅ Observability infrastructure — Prometheus + Grafana + Chronicler audit logging
✅ Runbooks for common issues — Troubleshooting guides for operations teams
How to Verify
All audit results are reproducible and verifiable:
<h1>Clone and install</h1>
git clone https://github.com/Orion-Alliance/orion-alliance-ai.git
cd orion-alliance-ai
pnpm install
<h1>Run audit reproducers</h1>
pnpm run p75:replay
pnpm run sentinel:perf
pnpm run p9_5:readiness
<h1>Inspect proof artifacts</h1>
cat reports/p75/replay-20251108.json
cat reports/sentinel/perf-2025-11-08.json
cat reports/p9_5/readiness-2025-11-10.json
<h1>View dashboards (Grafana JSON)</h1>
cat dashboards/grafana/p75-cost-and-quality.json
cat dashboards/grafana/sentinel-perf.json
cat dashboards/grafana/p9_5-slo-tracking.json
Time to verify: <10 minutes for all three phases
Key Artifacts
| Artifact | Location | Purpose |
| ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| Audit Report | audits/phase-0-9_5-audit-2025-11-08.md | Complete audit findings and methodology |
| Interpretation Guide | docs/audit/INTERPRET.md | How to read audits, interpret results, trigger re-runs |
| KB Entry | kb/log/2025-11-10.md | Knowledge base capture of this milestone |
| Cost Telemetry | reports/p75/replay-20251108.json | Phase 7.5 proof artifact |
| Security Performance | reports/sentinel/perf-2025-11-08.json | Phase 9 proof artifact |
| Readiness Report | reports/p9_5/readiness-2025-11-10.json | Phase 9.5 proof artifact |
| Dashboards | dashboards/grafana/*.json | Grafana panels for cost, security, SLO tracking |
Understanding the Audit
What's being audited? All phases from 0 (foundational infrastructure) through 9.5 (operational readiness).
By whom? Independent auditors using LVPF (Lightweight Verifiable Provenance Framework) to validate that all proof artifacts are signed, immutable, and reproducible.
How strict? We require margin above targets (e.g., 65% > 60% for cost, 0.102ms << 10ms for latency) to ensure we're not just barely passing.
How to interpret results? Read the Interpretation Guide →
What Comes Next
🚀 Phase 10 — Multi-modal routing (vision + audio inputs)
📊 Phase 11 — Telemetry expansion (cost tracking per model, per user, per project)
🔄 Phase 12 — Continuous compliance (automated re-auditing on every main branch commit)
Why This Matters
For Operators: You have a battle-tested, audited, observable AI system ready for production.
For Enterprises: You have verified cost savings, security guarantees, and compliance artifacts ready for your audit team.
For Open Source: You have reproducible science, not just claims. Fork, verify, build on top.
See More
Blog: Why We Publish Our Wins →
Questions?
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License: Apache 2.0 — Feel free to reference, verify, and build upon these results.