Overview
The stable principles that make the rest of O2A readable.
Foundation statements
Foundations are the stable, public principles you read first — before any individual entity. They explain what an O2A statement is, how a composable organization is assembled from related objects, why governed configuration comes before live operation, and how financial truth and evidence stay anchored to their source facts. Nothing here describes a particular implementation; this is the shared semantic ground every later page builds on.
How It Works
Foundations move from the most general idea to the most concrete. The Standard page fixes how to read O2A at all. Composition shows how Nodes, Offerings, Contracts, Wallets, and evidence-bearing objects fit together. Configuration explains why setup is governed and ordered before operation. Business Behavior, Financial Truth, and Evidence then anchor commercial behavior, money, and explainability to their source facts. Open Scope keeps deferred and unsettled scope visible without letting it crowd the current surface.
Use the cards below as the reading path through this section.
Standard
What the public O2A artifact is and how its statements should be read.
Composition
How organizations, Nodes, Offerings, Contracts, Wallets, and evidence-bearing objects fit together.
Configuration
The foundational role of governed setup before runtime operation.
Business Behavior
How Offering behavior is determined by configured business-equation archetypes.
Financial Truth
How source financial facts and derived financial views relate.
Evidence
How evidence explains and supports decisions, transitions, corrections, and acceptance.
Lifecycle Principle
The shared rules every lifecycle obeys — states, transitions, evidence, actors, and corrections.
Action Principle
The shared shape of every governed operation — inputs, preconditions, effects, and cascades.
Open Scope
How unsettled and deferred scope remains visible and readable.
Why It Matters
Every entity and contract page later in the standard assumes these principles already hold. If you know what a statement is, how the major objects compose, and where financial and evidentiary truth lives, the rest of O2A reads as one coherent language rather than a pile of definitions. Skip Foundations and the entity pages look like disconnected rules; read them and the connections fall into place.