What does the Heart AI Foundation do?

The Foundation stewards HEART's constitutional and normative roots, transparent standards process, Profiles, professional and conformity infrastructure, federation, public methods, research, and education.

Is the Foundation a regulator?

No. It has no general public coercive authority and does not replace legislatures, regulators, courts, standards bodies, or source owners.

How is HeartCore different from the Foundation?

HeartCore Ventures is a separate commercial entity. It receives no preferential standards authority, assessment, credential, Profile, Registry treatment, funding, or access.

About the Foundation

The Heart AI Foundation is the public-interest steward of HEART. Its mission is to develop, preserve, and make accessible infrastructure for governance operationalization, interoperability, and verification.

What the Foundation does

steward the Seven Axioms and HEART Standard;
operate transparent standards development and document control;
publish and govern Source, Domain, and Deployment Profiles;
govern formal conformity schemes while preserving evaluation and decision independence;
steward professional standards, credential semantics, and Registry specifications;
coordinate federation and bounded regional delegations;
publish open research, conditional methods, reference implementations, and public education; and
preserve anti-capture, fiscal independence, continuity, and public access.

What the Foundation does not do

act as a global regulator or police the AI world;
claim authority belonging to law, regulators, external standards, or communities;
make every Foundation method mandatory;
sell consulting through the nonprofit;
guarantee safety, legality, or scientific validity through a badge;
subsidize HeartCore, Dwell, EMPI House, or another related commercial venture; or
permit funding, credential volume, market products, or related parties to buy standards or decision authority.

Charter and legal structure

Heart AI Foundation Charter v3.0 is the current binding institutional charter. It supersedes Charter v2.4 and governs mission, authority, limits, standards integrity, federation, fiscal boundaries, related parties, and continuity.

The Foundation is registered in Oregon as a nonprofit public benefit corporation under Oregon registry number 257267493, with a registration date of May 9, 2026. This website does not represent contributions as tax-deductible unless current IRS recognition is separately confirmed.

For research outputs, repository metadata, ORCID records, Zenodo deposits, and ROR review, use the affiliation The Heart AI Foundation, Oregon, United States. See Research Affiliation.

Leadership

Dylan D. Mobley founded the Foundation and leads its research and standards work. His background is in digital forensics and AI governance, with a focus on turning claims, evidence, and decision boundaries into reviewable public infrastructure.

Education: MS Digital Forensics, Champlain College

ORCID: 0009-0002-3560-3955

Founder authorship does not override the Charter’s conflict, recusal, anti-capture, standards-change, or related-party rules.

Public commitments

one visible authority chain from webpage to current source;
current and historical versions kept distinct;
evidence and scientific claims bounded to validation state;
assessment separated from certification decision;
complaints, appeals, correction, and remedy designed into formal assurance;
no favorable outcome purchased by fees, donations, grants, referrals, or market value;
public and commercial activity structurally separated; and
methods replaceable when simpler or better evidence is available.

Current operating posture

The constitutional, Standard, Profile, professional, credential, Registry, federation, method-governance, and fiscal specifications are current. Operational bodies, public certification intake, production HVC issuance, a production Registry, and RFE recognition are not represented as live without a current authoritative record.