MX makes content machine-readable. REGINALD makes it machine-trustworthy. Both properties are required for machine-ready content; building one without the other is building half the system.
REGINALD is the public registry where documents are registered, cryptographically signed, and made verifiable by any machine on earth. The attestation is narrow and precise: this is what the owner published, unaltered. Origin and integrity only, not factual correctness, not editorial quality.
The practical effect compounds. Agents that read attested documents hallucinate less, because they have verified facts to cite rather than inferences to make. Fewer inference steps means lower token consumption and lower energy draw. And as the EU AI Act, the European Accessibility Act, and digital-records legislation across multiple jurisdictions converge on provenance requirements, attestation shifts from competitive advantage to regulatory expectation.
The AI-readiness consensus is inward-facing. Every framework on the table asks how we use AI safely. MX asks the question almost nobody is asking: how is our organisation being read, retrieved and represented by machines we will never meet? Audience: CIOs, CMOs, Heads of Digital. Companion to MX: The Handbook.
Machine-readable companions: Cog edition · Meta-cog
The Gathering ratifies the Machine Experience standard, including the contract fingerprinting note that defines how a document is canonicalised, hashed, and signed. REGINALD is one signing implementation of that standard, operated by CogNovaMX (the trading name of Digital Domain Technologies Ltd). A document carrying a REGINALD-issued attestation is registered against a public record any agent can verify.
For the standard itself, see the open MX drafts at The Gathering. For the broader programme, see the MX book series.
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