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The Road to Autonomy Indices Verification

Every twelve hours, The Road to Autonomy Indices data is cryptographically sealed and stamped by independent timestamp services. Anyone can use our public logs to verify that a record existed at that exact time and was never altered.

Administered by: AUTNMY AI, Inc. Computed by: OMEGA Sealed Cycles: 92

Anatomy of the Seal

Integrity and timing

The published value has not been altered since it was sealed, and it existed at the stated time, certified by an independent authority. The history is real and cannot be revised.

Correctness

The seal says nothing about whether a value is correct. Accuracy is a separate question, governed by the Benchmark Statement and the methodology, which document how values are sourced, scored, and corrected. The seal is narrow by design. It proves a record is authentic and unaltered, nothing more.

How Index Verification Works

At publication, every value across all live Indices for the cycle is serialized in a fixed canonical form. That includes each operator's composite and every pillar value. The serialized values are hashed into a single Merkle tree, which reduces to one 32-byte root.

That root is submitted to independent Time-Stamping Authorities under RFC 3161, the Time-Stamp Protocol. Each Authority returns a signed time-stamp token binding the root to a certified time on a clock we do not operate.

Any single value can later be verified against that anchored root through a short Merkle path. This works without revealing or re-anchoring the other values.

The seal records are append-only and mirrored to write-once storage. A value altered after sealing produces a different root. The new root no longer matches the anchored token. That mismatch is what anyone can detect.

Verify Index Integrity

Each cycle has a permanent record page with its root, its RFC 3161 time-stamp tokens, and step-by-step audit instructions. An independent open-source tool recomputes the root from the published values and validates it against the signed token.

# install the open-source verifier
pip install https://verification.roadtoautonomy.com/indices-verification.tar.gz

# verify a whole cycle: recompute the root and match it to the anchored token
indices-verify verify-cycle ./cycle-files/

# verify a single operator value via its Merkle proof
indices-verify verify-operator ./cycle-files/ --index robotaxi --operator waymo

The verifier is open source (MIT). Read it at github.com/AUTNMY-AI/indices-verification.

Latest sealed cycle: 2026-07-17-1800. See the full transparency log of every cycle, oldest to newest.

Output Integrity vs Input Provenance

The seal covers output integrity: a published index value was not altered after publication and existed at the certified time. The Benchmark Statement and source-fidelity layer govern input provenance: a cited source supported the calculation. Together they form the full trust stack. They are distinct and must not be conflated.