THE HEART AI FOUNDATION

Independent standards and certification for AI systems that affect people.

The Foundation publishes the HEART Standard, maintains open evidence and attestation layers, and supports independent certification work through Guardians and public specifications.

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The Heart AI Foundation is an independent standards body for AI governance. It publishes the HEART Standard, maintains the MAP-States evidence layer and the Behavioral Oracle attestation model, and supports certification through independent Guardians rather than vendor self-reporting.
Mission
What the Foundation exists to do, what it will not do, and why external evidence matters.
Standards
HEART Standard, MAP-States, Behavioral Oracle, and the public glossary that support the governance stack.
Governance
Charter v2.2, anti-capture architecture, council structure, and the Foundation's public operating rules.
Certification
How Guardians evaluate systems and when HVC credentials can be issued.
Research
Publications, forensic methods, and open materials that support the Foundation's public claims.
About
Leadership, governance commitments, and the Foundation's public posture.
Contact
The right inbox for collaboration, media, policy, and certification requests.
Public Infrastructure

The Foundation's public stack includes the HEART Standard, MAP-States, Behavioral Oracle, GTE, HVC, and the Guardian certification model.

Recent Research

The research program includes AI Behavioral Trajectory Forensics, TRACE, and the open materials used to support public claims about governance, evidence, and certification.

Defined Terms
Attentional Integrity Behavioral Governance Formula (BGF) Behavioral Oracle CAEI (Capacity Architecture for Emotional Integration) CEOP (Cognitive Emotional Overload Principle) Division Dwell Mark Emotional Sovereignty (Em) Empathic Misallocation Empathy Systems Theory (EST) Experience Quantization (EQ) Governance Trust Envelope (GTE) Guardian HVC (HEART Verification Credential) MAP-States Mechanistic Correlation Testing RCTA (Recognition, Calibration, Transparency, Accountability) Recognition Principle SBAS (Structural Behavioral Attestation Score) Seven Axioms Six Harms Doctrine SNIA (Spontaneous Narrative Integration Architecture) Third Level of Satisfaction Trust Credit Trust Infrastructure Index (TII)