# Dartmouth Advisory Partners > Dartmouth Advisory Partners (DAP): Your organization’s foundations, compiled. An institutional governance-technology firm. We compile what an organization has written about how it must operate into systems that run that way, and record the evidence that they did. Clients are asset owners, asset managers, OCIOs, pensions, insurers and family offices. The site is static HTML. Every page below is readable without JavaScript. Papers are available as HTML reading views and original PDFs. Contact: bsibeth@dap.solutions. ## Overview - [Home](https://dap.solutions/): An institutional governance-technology firm. We compile what an organization has written about how it must operate into systems that run that way, and record the evidence that they did. ## What we do - [What we do](https://dap.solutions/solutions/): Fit and freedom. A standard method that reaches a truly custom result. The software forms around your business, not the other way round, and deploys into any shop, fast. ## How we do it - [How we do it](https://dap.solutions/how-it-works/): Living Policy Architecture: written policy, compiled into executable, versioned, testable rules that govern what may happen and produce the evidence that it did. ## Data solutions - [Data solutions](https://dap.solutions/data/): Our sensor and compiler, working on public sources: the Ledger and its Index, the DAP Standard, Bellwether, the Compute Market Tracker and TIM. ## Systems and tools - [Systems & tools](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/): Explore DAP’s systems, tools, research frameworks and delivery methods. Browse by capability and inspect how the work connects. - [Overture](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/overture/): An orchestration layer that puts policy checks, permissions and accountable review in the path of institutional work. - [Resolve Exchange](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/resolve-exchange/): A governed venue for connecting institutional problems with people and agents equipped to work on them. - [sh4pe](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/sh4pe/): A local model studio for training, evaluating and serving private models on institution-controlled hardware. - [Falcon](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/falcon/): A reporting architecture that connects contract data, calculations and reporting outputs to a common, inspectable basis. - [DAP Standard](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/dap-standard/): A six-layer classification framework for describing institutional holdings with a consistent vocabulary. - [Living Policy Architecture](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/living-policy-architecture/): The framework connecting policy sources, validated rules, bounded actions and decision evidence. - [Decision Provenance](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/decision-provenance/): A decision-record schema and reference implementation linking an action to the inputs, policy and outcome that explain it. - [AA-1](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/aa-1/): A proposed disclosure layer for describing the governance of AI agents in a consistent, inspectable form. - [Lattice](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/lattice/): An ACTUS-based contract engine exploring how one contract definition can support consistent events, calculations and reporting views. - [Bellwether](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/bellwether/): Public regulatory information collection and connectors for bringing relevant source material into institutional research and review. - [Antechamber](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/antechamber/): A pre-production qualification approach for evaluating an agent against its intended policy boundaries and operating task. - [Downforce](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/downforce/): A discovery loop connecting problem identification, governed execution and the network that brings a problem to the right solver. - [Gate Zero](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/gate-zero/): A delivery approach that establishes the problem, decision boundaries and acceptance basis before implementation expands. - [Software Factory](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/software-factory/): A development architecture connecting policy intent, system specification and the evidence used to assess a delivered application. - [DAP Racing](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/dap-racing/): An application of the compiled-envelope idea beyond the institutional investment workflow. ## Research - [Research](https://dap.solutions/papers/): Published, cited, open to scrutiny. Our methods are public by design. Clients keep their edge in how they apply them, never in a black box we hold. - [Living Policy Architecture](https://dap.solutions/papers/living-policy-architecture/): A framework for turning written policy into governed, executable logic. The paper examines how rules become checks, where human judgment remains essential, and how decisions stay traceable to their source. - [Discovery is the bottleneck](https://dap.solutions/papers/discovery-is-the-bottleneck/): Why the scarce skill in applied AI is knowing which questions are worth asking. A case for making expert reasoning, policy, and decision records a capability the institution can own. - [Govern first, then automate.](https://dap.solutions/papers/dap-overview/): The DAP approach in one page: assess the opportunity, govern the boundaries, build and run the workflow, and transfer the resulting capability to the institution. - [From Frameworks to Filings](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6935198): The case for a standard disclosure layer in AI agent governance. SSRN, July 2026. - [Living Policy Architecture](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7108198): The case for executable, traceable policy in continuously operating AI systems. SSRN, July 2026. - [Policy-coupled Decision Attestation](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7108538): Proving an institutional AI decision followed the rule that governed it. SSRN, July 2026. - [The DAP Standard 2026.2](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7377958): A six-layer classification standard for institutional portfolios. Published for review. SSRN, September 2026. ## About and contact - [About](https://dap.solutions/about/): Dartmouth Advisory Partners, founded January 2025 in Toronto, Canada. Results as a service. Founder and Managing Partner: Brendan Sibeth. - [Contact](https://dap.solutions/contact/): Discover a higher standard. You buy the outcome. We compile the system that delivers it, and the evidence that it did. - [Privacy](https://dap.solutions/privacy/): The existing DAP website privacy notice: email, hosting logs and cookieless Cloudflare Web Analytics. - [Terms](https://dap.solutions/terms/): The existing Dartmouth Advisory Partners website terms, effective 6 October 2026. ## FAQ - [FAQ](https://dap.solutions/faq/): Plain answers to the questions institutions ask Dartmouth Advisory Partners about executable policy, review, evidence and ownership. ## Optional - [The DAP Standard 2026.2, Markdown source](https://dap.solutions/standard/dap-standard-2026.2.md): Six-layer classification standard for institutional portfolios. Canonical URL https://dap.solutions/standard. - [DAP Standard taxonomy, JSON](https://dap.solutions/standard/dap-standard-2026.2-taxonomy.json): Machine-readable taxonomy for the standard. - [Full site text](https://dap.solutions/llms-full.txt): Every page above as plain text.