A

Agent (of Saphi Intelligence). Each of the twelve specialist components of the algorithmic constellation that assists the operation of Alerta. The agents are numbered 01 to 12 and operate within the limits of Article X. See Agent catalog.

Aliado. Business, workshop, café, bookstore, cultural institution or local organization that accepts seeds in exchange for real goods and services. Constitutes the redemption point that sustains the value floor of the seed. See Aliado guide.

Anti-thesis (principle of). Founding commitment of Alerta according to which the platform forgoes competition for the attention of those who use it. Complete development in Article I.

Antiari. Name received by Maxime Nassour among the Ashaninka, an indigenous community with which the project sustains long-term relationships. Antiari.ai is the principal model surface of Saphi International.

Avireri. Biosphere of the Peruvian territory where Saphi operates a government contract of 4.1 million hectares for nature-based solutions projects.

Ayni. Quechua term that names the reciprocal obligation that maintains the fabric of Andean communities. Alerta adopts the ayni as a constitutional principle of reciprocity. Complete development in Article III.

C

Chamber. Each of the three collegiate bodies that compose the tricameral governance of Alerta: Chamber of Vigías, Chamber of Expertos and Chamber of Aliados. Development in Article IV.

Constitution. Founding document of Alerta. Fourteen articles and a preamble. Modifiable only by tricameral agreement in accordance with Article IV. Complete reading at The Constitution.

Constitutional amendment. Modification proposed to the text of the Constitution. Its approval requires a simple majority in each of the three chambers. The complete procedure is described in Article IV. Approved amendments are recorded in the public registry.

Counter-observation. Public observation that questions, modifies or enriches a previously validated observation. Recorded in the file and forms an integral part of the historical record. See Article XI.

Corporate Partner. Company that maintains an institutional relationship with Alerta. Its agreement is recorded in accordance with Article XII.

Creator. Journalist, photographer, illustrator or content producer who documents stories derived from the work of Vigías and Expertos. Their work is published on dedicated editorial surfaces.

CUSAF. Peruvian legal system of Concessions for Sustainable Agroforestry Use, regulated by Law 29763. Saphi operates CUSAF projects that cover up to 1.5 million hectares and 123,000 families.

D

Demurrage. Monthly decay rate applied to the seed at rest. Discourages private accumulation and maintains circulation as the condition of existence of the system. Complete development in Article IX.

Dissent. Constitutional right of every entity with sufficient trust to present public counter-observation regarding any validated observation. See Article XI.

E

Experto. Professional or researcher accredited in a field relevant to the operation (urbanism, environment, law, public health, engineering, journalism). Validates technically complex observations. Credentials are verified before incorporation.

F

File (expediente). Historical record of an observation. Includes the original observation, validations received, counter-observations, corrections applied and associated metadata. Remains accessible in perpetuity in accordance with Article VI.

G

Gesell, Silvio. German-Argentine economist (1862 to 1930) who proposed monetary demurrage as a remedy against hoarding. His ideas inspired experiments such as the German Wära of 1929 and the Wörgl Freigeld in Austria during 1932. See Article IX.

Government Agency. Institution of the Peruvian State (or of any jurisdiction where the protocol operates) that receives validated observations and responds within the committed timeframes. Its participation is formalized in a public agreement. See Roles.

M

Moderation. Process by which an observation submitted by an Observer or by a Vigía passes to editorial triage before publication. Operated at admin.alerta.earth with the assistance of Agent 02.

O

Observation. Basic unit of civic information documented by a Vigía or Observer. Includes description, approximate location, timestamp and metadata. Passes through a verification chain before publication.

Observer. Person without verification whose submission enters public moderation. Entry role into the system. After a sequence of validated submissions, the Observer is invited to begin the training process as a Vigía.

Operational truth. Constitutional principle according to which every published observation must be traceable to a responsible person or to a documented verification process. See Article VI.

P

Preamble. Text that precedes the fourteen articles of the Constitution. See Preamble.

R

Reading of the document. Entry page to the Constitution that orients three modes of reading: complete, by thematic blocks, as index. See Reading the document.

Reciprocity. Constitutional principle according to which every interaction in the system returns more than it takes. Formalized in Article III under the Quechua name ayni.

Redemption. Act by which a Vigía exchanges accumulated seeds for real goods or services at an Aliado. The operation is recorded in the system and the Aliado receives transfer in fiat currency within the committed timeframe.

Redemption floor. Minimum guaranteed value that a seed preserves at the moment of redemption by an Aliado. Backed by the corresponding reserve of the Waqf Corpus. See Treasury.

S

Saphi. Saphi International Holding Corp., a company founded by Maxime Nassour that operates the Alerta project together with other initiatives in productive preservation, regenerative agriculture and biodiversity credits.

Saphi Intelligence. Multi-agent platform developed by Saphi that assists the operation of Alerta. Twelve specialist agents compose the constellation, operating under the limits of Article X.

Seed. Unit of civic reciprocity of Alerta. Accounting record of verified participation with local redemption floor and no secondary market. See Article VIII.

Soqtapata. Territorial concession of 10,000 hectares under co-management with Saphi, located between 800 and 4,800 meters of elevation. One of the central territorial surfaces of Saphi's work.

Surface. Each of the four operational interfaces of Alerta: vigia.alerta.earth, admin.alerta.earth, aliados.alerta.earth and docs.alerta.earth.

Synecoculture. Regenerative agriculture methodology developed by Masatoshi Funabashi at Sony CSL. Constitutes one of the reference technical practices in Saphi's territorial projects.

T

Treasury. Set of accounting protocols that regulate the emission of seeds, the operation of the redemption floor, the application of demurrage and the composition of the Waqf Corpus. See Treasury.

Tricameral governance. Institutional structure of Alerta according to which constitutional decisions require the agreement of three independent chambers. See Article IV.

Triage. First stage of the processing of an observation or a submission. Classifies by category, urgency and need for expert validation. Operated with the assistance of Agent 02.

Trust (accumulated). Public, non-transferable and observable metric that each entity of the system earns through verified contribution and loses through sustained inactivity or documented breach. Its calculation is described in Trust Score.

Trust Score. Public and auditable calculation that produces the accumulated trust score of each entity. Combines five factors: volume, quality, consistency, diversity and reception of counter-observations. See Trust Score.

V

Vigía. Verified person who documents field observations. The central role of the system. Accumulates trust and receives seeds through validated observations. See Vigía onboarding.

W

Waqf. Legal institution of classical Islamic law that dedicates a good to a purpose in perpetuity, withdrawing it from commerce and from inheritance. Alerta adopts the principle in the form of the Waqf Corpus in Article II.

Wörgl. Austrian town that during 1932 and 1933 issued a local currency with demurrage according to the ideas of Silvio Gesell. The experiment, known as Freigeld, was suspended by central authorities but produced notable social results during its brief operation. See Article IX.