By 'Orion Alliance Team' • November 10, 2025

Why We Publish Our Wins — And How to Verify Them

Date: November 10, 2025

We live in an era of AI hype. Exciting claims fill every press release, every social post, every LinkedIn profile. But how many of them can you actually _verify_?

At Orion Alliance, we believe the opposite. We publish our wins not to impress, but to be proven wrong. Every achievement we announce comes with reproducible steps, proof artifacts, and open-source code. You don't have to take our word for it—you can verify it yourself in under 5 minutes.

What Counts as a Win?

Not everything we achieve is a "win" worth publishing. We have strict criteria:

✅ Meets acceptance criteria with margin — Not just "barely passing" (e.g., ≥10% above target for metrics, ≥100× for performance)

✅ Provides proof artifact — JSON report, dashboard export, or audit trail that anyone can inspect

✅ Reproducible in <5 minutes — You can verify the result independently with our harnesses

✅ Merged to main branch — Not work-in-progress or in a feature branch

✅ Passes LVPF provenance gates — Artifacts signed and immutable

Anti-patterns (do NOT publish as wins)

❌ Work-in-progress features

❌ Unmerged PRs or branch-only work

❌ Results that cannot be independently verified

❌ Internal-only achievements (should be shareable with community)

Our Current Wins

📊 Phase 7.5 — 65% Cost Reduction

We achieved 65% cost reduction while _improving_ quality by 4 percentage points. Our intelligent budget controller routes LLM requests to the most cost-effective provider capable of meeting quality thresholds.

Proof:

  • Cost reduction: 65% (target: ≥60%) ✅
  • Quality improvement: 4 percentage points (89% vs. 85% baseline) ✅
  • Routing latency overhead: <5ms
  • Reproducible in <5 minutes with pnpm run p75:replay

    • 🔒 Phase 9 — Security Agent (100× Performance Margin)

    Sentinel security agent validates permissions, signatures, and rate limits with P50 latency of 0.102ms — 100× faster than the 10ms target.

    Proof:

  • P50 latency: 0.102ms (100× under target) ✅
  • P95 latency: 0.205ms (100× under target) ✅
  • Zero unauthorized actions
  • 100% audit logging via Chronicler

    • ✅ CI Codex Audit 7/7 PASS

    All phases through 9.5 passed comprehensive compliance audit with verified artifacts:

  • ✅ Phase 7.5: 65% cost reduction + quality improvement
  • ✅ Phase 9: Sub-millisecond security enforcement
  • ✅ Phase 9.5: All readiness gates, dashboards, SLO tracking, incident response playbooks
  • ✅ 7/7 PASS across all audit criteria

    • How to Verify

    Pick any win, clone the repo, and run:

    git clone https://github.com/Orion-Alliance/orion-alliance-ai.git
cd orion-alliance-ai
pnpm install

    <h1>Run Phase 7.5 verification</h1>
pnpm run p75:replay
    

    <h1>Run Phase 9 performance harness</h1>
pnpm run sentinel:perf
    

    <h1>Inspect artifacts</h1>
cat reports/p75/replay-20251108.json
cat reports/sentinel/perf-2025-11-08.json

    Expected time: <5 minutes per win

    All results are reproducible, hashable, and linkable. No magic, no hand-wavy claims.

    Why This Matters

    For Engineers: You want proof that technologies work. Here it is.

    For Business: You want vendors who are transparent about capabilities and limitations. We're honest about trade-offs.

    For Open Source: You want reproducible science. We provide it.

    Next Steps

    See more wins →

    Latest audit: CI Codex 7/7 PASS →

    How to reproduce: Verification guide →

    Questions?

  • How do I verify a specific win? Read the 5-minute verification guide in each win page
  • What's the brand voice behind these claims? Check our brand voice guide
  • Want to file an issue or contribute? Open a GitHub issue

    • Tags: transparency reproducibility proof engineering open-source

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