What must it do?
Define the work the mission application must support.
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PUBLIC EXPLAINER & MISSION CATALOG · NOVEMBER 2026
The Mission,
Not the Machine.
90 mission examples. Six domains. One mission-first approach.
A mission expresses what people want achieved and sustained as conditions change. This document explains that distinction and gives each example a practical starting point: what the application must do, who holds authority, what must always hold and what it must observe.
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ACTUAL FIRST PAGE · READ ALL 36 PAGESTHE FOUR QUESTIONS, FOR ANY MISSION
Start with the mission.
Who holds authority?
State the human authority under which proposals may be admitted.
What must always hold?
Define invariants, constraints and kinetics: limits, timing and rates.
What must it observe?
Identify the data, events and capabilities the mission needs to connect to.
Human authority stays outside the runtime. The Persistent Requester computes what remains required; independent Actors propose possibilities; the Independent Governor determines proposal-specific admissibility. Requester and Governor are not Actors. Only an admitted proposal crosses the Commit Boundary, and observed consequences return to the same continuing mission.
THE MISSION CATALOG
Find a mission
that matters to you.
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PART 1 · 15 EXAMPLES · PAGES 8–12
Everyday fields
Healthcare, payments, logistics, energy, education and the services people rely on.
Read this category PART 2 · 15 EXAMPLES · PAGES 13–16Teenagers & everyday goals
Study, skills, savings, teamwork and healthy routines under personal and family authority.
Read this category PART 3 · 15 EXAMPLES · PAGES 17–21Humanoid robots
Physical work in factories, hospitals, hazardous environments and space operations.
Read this category PART 4 · 15 EXAMPLES · PAGES 22–26Sovereign space
Communications, Earth observation, constellation operations and missions beyond Earth.
Read this category PART 5 · 15 EXAMPLES · PAGES 27–31Government of Canada
Public services, emergency response, infrastructure and national responsibilities under lawful authority.
Read this category PART 6 · 15 EXAMPLES · PAGES 32–36Civilization-scale missions
Pandemic response, energy, water, food security and continuity through major disruption.
Read this categoryThese are illustrative mission definitions, not a list of deployed applications, customer relationships or endorsements. Named organizations and platforms in the original document provide example contexts. Operational use requires the appropriate human approvals, integrations and domain validation.
Mission-level admissibility complements capable Actors and existing safety, alignment and cybersecurity measures; it does not require dismissing those safeguards. Economic figures in the original are illustrative, not quotations or guarantees. Public UMB portal access is coming soon.
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