Mission
The Foundation’s mission is to develop, steward, preserve, and make accessible public-interest infrastructure for governance operationalization, interoperability, and verification.
Why we exist
AI governance is becoming plural faster than institutions can make it operational. HEART supplies a reusable grammar for translating applicable authority into evidence-backed decisions without falsely harmonizing the sources or creating proprietary control of the last mile.
What we commit to
- keep the Seven Axioms and HEART core small, stable, visible, and public;
- preserve source authority and contextual pluralism through Profiles;
- use existing sufficient evidence and the minimum-sufficient verifier;
- separate research, methods, standards, professional roles, and formal conformity;
- preserve complaints, appeals, correction, remedy, and version lineage;
- resist commercial, political, ideological, founder, procedural, scientific, and fiscal capture;
- make regional legitimacy possible without forking the core; and
- retire Foundation machinery that does not improve public value.
What we do not do
- claim general regulatory or coercive authority;
- make every Foundation method a HEART requirement;
- certify through self-attestation, reputation, or an unexplained score;
- sell favorable rules or outcomes;
- represent commercial products as Foundation programs; or
- claim scientific validation beyond the evidence.
Institutional status
The Foundation is an Oregon nonprofit public benefit corporation. Its current authority and operating limits are governed by Charter v3.0. Tax-deductibility or federal recognition must be separately verified and is not implied by this page.