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Research

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.

Four papers

7 documents

Papers on SSRN
PaperWhat it sets outSSRN abstract
From Frameworks to Filings The AA-1 Agent Governance Attestation standard6935198
Living Policy Architecture The method for compiling written policy into governed rules7108198
Policy-coupled Decision Attestation Attesting each decision against the policy that governed it7108538
The DAP Standard 2026.2 DAP’s classification and taxonomy, used in our regulatory filings7377958

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Proof, not promises

The standard

AA-1

The Agent Governance Attestation standard: how an AI agent’s governance is attested and evidenced. Published on SSRN.

The protocol

DAAP: the Dartmouth Adversarial Attestation Protocol

Zero-conflict-of-interest evaluation for institutional decision engines. Adversarial by construction, cryptographically verifiable.

  • Deterministic replay
  • Versioned policy (Merkle tree)
  • A zero-knowledge proof per decision
  • Public append-only commitment
  • Blind adversarial verification
  • Verifier learns only pass or fail

At the table where the rules are written

Submissions, October 2026

  • CFTC / Docket CFTC-2026-1850

    Comment on listing compute derivatives contracts

  • OSFI

    Comment on the proposed senior leader regime

  • Bill C-36

    Automated-decision brief to the House ETHI committee and Minister Evan Solomon

Certification path

ISO/IEC 42001 and ISO/IEC 27001, in one integrated audit

Aligned to OSFI E-23 on model risk, effective 1 May 2027, and to ISO/IEC 42005 on AI impact assessment.

We adopt what our buyers are already audited against.

You buy the outcome. We compile the system that delivers it, and the evidence that it did.

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