OPERATIONS
Trust & security
Status URL, auth and HMAC signing, CAD data handling, and what latency on the status page does and does not mean. No invented SLAs.
Trust summary
Statushttps://status.fourechelon.comLive probes for web, CAD converter, and Rowe. latencyMs is a single probe, not an SLA.
API authBearer / X-API-KeyPaid key required for /api/v1/responses, /cad/extract, and /cad/import-feature-tree.
Partner webhooksHMAC-SHA256 raw bodyX-Four-Echelon-Signature, X-Adam-Signature, or X-Hub-Signature-256.
CAD uploadsProcessing onlyDo not rely on long-term storage of uploaded files; persist outputs yourself.
Training defaultNot customer uploadsProduction inference does not train on customer CAD unless a separate agreement says so.
Partner signing example
Terminal
BODY='{"partner":"adam","document_id":"doc_123","feature_tree":[{"id":"sketch-1","feature_type":"sketch"}]}'
SIG=$(printf '%s' "$BODY" | openssl dgst -sha256 -hmac "$FOUR_ECHELON_PARTNER_WEBHOOK_SECRET" | awk '{print $2}')
curl https://fourechelon.com/api/v1/cad/partner-webhook \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-Four-Echelon-Signature: $SIG" \
-d "$BODY"Status
Check status.fourechelon.com or /status. Probe latencyMs is a single measurement, not an SLA.