Most integration failures are not caused by bad engineering. They are caused by committing to an interface before the interface is real.

This episode introduces the FrameGate Check as a pre-commitment screen you run before you promise delivery across a boundary. It is designed to prevent the most common cross-boundary failure: building a plan that assumes alignment, authority, definitions, and ownership that do not actually exist.

You will hear how FrameGate forces clarity on the things that quietly kill coordination later:

• Who owns the interface on each side, by name
• What “working” means in observable terms
• What the tolerances are (timeliness, completeness, drift, degraded behavior)
• What decisions can be made at the edge vs escalated
• What changes are allowed during an activation, and what is frozen
• What happens when reality deviates from the plan

Use this when you are about to commit to a partner integration, a shared dataset, a governance workflow, or any cross-team dependency where the cost of ambiguity becomes rework, escalation, and blame.

Reflection: Are you about to make a promise that depends on a seam you do not actually control?

https://anthonyveltri.com/guide/doctrine-03-companion-the-framegate-check-for-pre-commitment-interface-integrity/