Standards
The Foundation’s standards define how AI governance is observed, scored, and verified. The core public stack is the HEART Standard, MAP-States, the Behavioral Oracle, the GTE open trust infrastructure, and the Guardian certification model.
Public standards
HEART Standard
The HEART Standard is the Foundation’s primary governance architecture. It defines the layers, scores, and domain-specific Divisions used to evaluate AI systems.
MAP-States
MAP-States provides the evidence layer. It records structured processing frames that make AI behavior observable in a way that can be reviewed later.
Behavioral Oracle
The Behavioral Oracle is the attestation layer. It helps bind declared intent to collected evidence so assessment can be audited rather than asserted.
Governance Trust Envelope (GTE)
The GTE is the Foundation’s open trust infrastructure contribution. It provides an execution-trust boundary for governance controls and is designed to be framework-agnostic, so it can support HEART and non-HEART governance systems alike.