A Governance Framework for Regulatory Interpretation Alignment in Multi-Vendor User Acceptance Testing: Evidence from Healthcare, Insurance, and Government Enterprise Implementations

This preprint introduces the Regulatory Interpretation Gap (RIG) — a structural governance failure that occurs in regulated multi-vendor enterprise implementations when multiple stakeholders independently operationalize the same regulatory requirement before a shared interpretation is established.

The paper proposes the Acceptance Translation Layer (ATL), an upstream governance framework designed to surface, align, and manage interpretive ambiguity before formal User Acceptance Testing (UAT) execution begins.

Drawing on retrospective analysis across eight regulated enterprise implementations spanning healthcare, insurance, and government systems, the study documents recurring interpretation failure patterns and examines their operational impact on release readiness, vendor alignment, and compliance outcomes.

This manuscript is currently under review with IEEE Access.