# kaal:claim:6886078-011

**Claim.** GaaP's central claim is the deliberate concession that institutional operability is worth a bounded residual: it retains full natural-language expressiveness and buys reliability through incentive alignment and reputation-weighted aggregation rather than claiming complete error elimination.

**Type.** design  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- the expressiveness-against-enforceability tradeoff

**Source quote.**

> It retains full natural-language expressiveness and buys relia- bility through economic incentive alignment and reputation- weighted aggregation, accepting a bounded and auditable residual error rather than claiming its complete elimination. The concession is deliberate and is the paper’s central claim: institutional operability is worth a bounded residual.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Governance as a Product (GaaP): A Reputation-Weighted Institutional Architecture for Autonomous AI Agent Governance* (2026), VI. Why a Reputation-Weighted Substrate, page 3

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Governance as a Product (GaaP): A Reputation-Weighted Institutional Architecture for Autonomous AI Agent Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6886078

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**Topics.** governance-design, ai-and-agents, institutional-design

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