# Continuity Evidence Ladder **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Research Method / Provenance **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Canonical evidence methodology ## Definition The **Continuity Evidence Ladder** classifies findings so enacted law, official policy, programs, deliberation, funded research, independent proposals, private precedent, corpus synthesis, and red-team hypotheses cannot be mistaken for one another. ## Continuity Significance It is essential because digital-afterlife architecture is currently fragmented and inference-heavy. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Levels A–G are: A binding; B official policy; C active program; D deliberation; E government-funded research; F policy-facing independent research; G private precedent. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Corpus Synthesis and Red-Team Hypothesis should be marked separately from Levels A–G. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Digital Afterlife Research Method|Digital Afterlife Research Method]] · [[wiki/Continuity Convergence|Continuity Convergence]] · [[wiki/Evidence Boundary|Evidence Boundary]]