01 / AUTONOMY RELEASE CLEARANCE

Authorization for
autonomy to act.

Vellastri determines whether an autonomous system change is cleared to execute.

It evaluates the proposed change against verified mission state, dependencies, authority, constraints, and available evidence.

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MISSION STATE

CONFIGURATION

AUTONOMY

AUTHORITY

EVIDENCE

CONSTRAINTS

V / AUTHCLEAREXECUTION AUTHORIZED

AUTH EVENTAR-042STATEVERIFIED

AI ASSURANCE MISSION AUTONOMY SPACE SYSTEMS DEFENSE

THE AUTONOMY GAP

Autonomous systems can act faster than organizations can verify them.

As autonomy moves deeper into spacecraft and defense systems, software changes, configuration changes, learned behaviors, operational constraints, and mission conditions increasingly interact.

Traditional assurance processes were built around systems that behaved predictably and changed relatively slowly. Autonomous systems change the equation.

What exactly is authorized to execute — right now, in this configuration, under these conditions, and based on what evidence?

Vellastri is being built to answer that question continuously.

WHY NOW

AUTONOMY IS MOVING CLOSER TO EXECUTION.

Software, models, and configurations increasingly change during the operational lifecycle of a system.

The more autonomy a system has, the harder it becomes to determine — continuously — what it is authorized to execute.

More autonomy. More change. More need for authorization.

AUTONOMY RELEASE CLEARANCE

Determine whether an autonomous system change is cleared to execute.

Evaluate the proposed change against the verified mission state, dependencies, authority, constraints, and available evidence.

THE VELLASTRI LAYER

From system change to operational authorization.

CHANGE

A software release, autonomy model, configuration, parameter, policy, or operational change.

VERIFY

Evaluate it against mission configuration, tests, simulations, requirements, constraints, and evidence.

REASON

Determine how the change interacts with mission state, dependencies, authority, and context.

AUTHORIZE

Produce an explicit operational decision.

CLEAR

Authorized to proceed.

HOLD

Pause pending evidence or conditions.

ESCALATE

Requires human or higher-level authority.

REVOKE

Prior authorization is no longer valid.

VERIFIED MISSION STATE

You cannot authorize what you cannot verify.

Autonomous operations depend on knowing what the system actually is — not simply what a repository, specification, or configuration database says it should be.

Vellastri is designed to establish a continuously reconstructed view of the system.

01What changed?

02What is currently deployed?

03What depends on it?

04What has been tested?

05What evidence supports the change?

06What authority applies?

07What is permitted to execute?

SOFTWARE

CONFIGURATION

MODEL

HARDWARE

MISSION

TEST

TELEMETRY

AUTHORITY

REQUIREMENT

EVIDENCE

MISSION MODELRECONSTRUCTED / LIVE

DEPENDENCIES09 VERIFIED

ARCHITECTURE

The authorization gate between system change and autonomous action.

Vellastri connects with engineering, operational, verification, and authority systems to produce an explicit execution decision.

PROPOSED CHANGEAUTONOMOUS SYSTEMSOFTWARE / MODEL / CONFIGURATION / POLICY

RELEASE CLEARANCEVELLASTRI ASSURANCE + AUTHORIZATION

CLEARHOLDESCALATEREVOKE

AUTHORIZED OUTPUTAUTONOMOUS ACTIONEXECUTE ONLY WITH CURRENT CLEARANCE

ENGINEERING

Git / source controlConfiguration managementPLM / software releasesRequirements

MISSION & OPERATIONS

Mission planningTelemetry / operationsIdentityCommand systems

VERIFICATION

Simulation / testValidationDigital engineeringEvidence repositories

EXTERNAL CONTEXT

Operational constraintsRequirements / policiesAuthority structuresExternal data

WHY VELLASTRI

Assurance is not a document. It is a system state.

Traditional assurance produces artifacts around a system. Autonomous operations require a continuously updated relationship between what the system is, what changed, what has been verified, what authority applies, and what it is allowed to do.

01DOCUMENTS→

02STATE→

03EVIDENCE→

04DECISION

Vellastri is designed to turn that relationship into an operational control layer.

AI ASSURANCE

When autonomy changes, assurance must change with it.

Models evolve. Data changes. Policies change. Operational environments change. Software changes. Behavior can change as the surrounding system changes.

Vellastri is designed to connect AI and autonomy changes to the broader mission configuration and evidence required to authorize them.

MODELVERIFIEDDATAVERIFIEDSOFTWAREVERIFIEDCONFIGURATIONVERIFIEDMISSION STATEVERIFIEDAUTHORITYVERIFIEDEVIDENCEVERIFIED

VELLASTRI REASONING LAYER →

EXECUTION
DECISION CLEAR

APPLICATIONS

Built for systems that cannot assume static conditions.

Autonomous Spacecraft

Determine whether changes to autonomous behavior, software, or configuration are cleared for execution.

Mission Operations

Maintain a verified operational state across changing system configurations and mission conditions.

Defense Autonomy

Provide an auditable authorization layer between autonomous decision-making and execution.

Software-Defined Systems

Connect release management, verification evidence, configuration, and operational authority.

Multi-System Missions

Reason across dependencies spanning spacecraft, ground systems, software, models, and external constraints.

TRUST BY DESIGN

Built for environments where authorization matters.

Vellastri is designed around explicit authority, evidence, traceability, and controlled execution.

Evidence-backed decisions

Trace every authorization decision to its supporting information.

Explicit authority

Distinguish what can execute from what is authorized.

Configuration awareness

Reflect the actual system state.

Human escalation

Preserve human authority where authority is required.

Revocability

Change authorization when underlying conditions change.

PRODUCT CONCEPT

Autonomy Release Clearance, made visible.

ILLUSTRATIVE MISSION / SIMULATIONCONCEPTUAL INTERFACE — NOT AN OPERATIONAL DEPLOYMENT

ILLUSTRATIVE MISSION ORION-7 / SIMULATIONAUTONOMY RELEASE AR-042EXAMPLE OUTPUT

RELEASE DECISIONCLEAR AUTHORIZED FOR EXECUTIONDECISION TRACE AVAILABLE

01 / PROPOSED CHANGEAutonomy policy v4.8

02 / IMPACT ANALYSIS3 mission-critical dependencies

03 / EVIDENCESimulation ✓ HIL ✓ Regression ✓verified

04 / AUTHORITYMission Operations / Level 3confirmed

05 / MISSION STATENO CONFLICTSnominal

ILLUSTRATIVE DECISION TRACE / EX-AR-042CONFIGURATION CURRENTAUTHORITY CONFIRMED

THE LONG VIEW

The operating layer for accountable autonomy.

PRODUCTAutonomy Release Clearance

CATEGORYTrust & authorization infrastructure

MARKETAutonomous aerospace & defense systems

VISIONThe operating layer for accountable autonomy

As autonomous systems become more capable, organizations need infrastructure that can answer three questions continuously:

01What is the system doing?

02Why is it allowed to do it?

03What evidence supports that decision?

Vellastri is building toward a future where autonomous aerospace systems can operate with greater speed and independence without sacrificing traceability, authority, or human control.

Autonomy scales when
trust scales with it.

COMPANY

Built at the intersection of autonomy, authority, and mission assurance.

Vellastri is developing Autonomy Release Clearance for aerospace and defense systems.

THE TEAM

Leticia Prados Founder & CEO

AI regulation · aerospace/space policy · governance · institutional systems

Stephen Varey Founder & Chief Architect

AI architecture · knowledge systems · autonomous systems · mission engineering

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