The institutional surface for governed AI.
The major laboratories sell mythos. We publish receipts.
GovernedAI defines, tests, and registers the operating doctrine for governed AI decisions: signed, replayable, hash-anchored artifacts that record what an AI system did, why it was authorized, what evidence was used, what was suppressed, and how to reproduce the decision bit-for-bit.
No verifier, no receipt.
No conformance, no category.
Doctrines without software counterparts are aspirations.
Five Pillars
Governed AI rests on five peer substrates. Each is independently citable.
What is a governed AI decision?
A consequential AI output that emits a signed, replayable, policy-bounded artifact recording its authority context, inputs, configuration, evidence, suppression history, review path, and verifier state. Read the definition.
Why now
The market does not need another governance framework. The market does not need another observability dashboard. The market needs software-enforced discipline that turns existing frameworks and observability into closed, audit-grade improvement loops on hardware-anchored evidence.
Three forcing functions converge. First, full EU AI Act applicability begins in August 2026 (Regulation 2024/1689, Article 113). Second, large-enterprise procurement is expected to require ISO 42001 alignment from AI vendors as part of governance maturity expectations during 2026–2027. Third, the insurance and audit markets are starting to reflect AI governance maturity in their pricing and review terms. The vendors who can produce receipts will pass. Those who cannot will discover that mythos does not satisfy a regulator with a fine schedule.
Source receipts for the second and third forcing functions are being assembled in /receipts/. Until those receipts publish, the language above is qualitative — we name the direction, not specific numbers.
Recent receipts
The receipts registry is being seeded as Phase 1 launch artifacts pass adversarial review. Forthcoming entries: GDTK-100 specification, RDL Protocol v0.1, the KILL-DEAL audit narrative, the AIGP × C2PA × Microsoft AGT reconciliation paper.
The Council ledger
This publication is itself governed. Read the governance model, including the Council Document-Parity Rule that will be ratified into AI Governance v2.3 at the 2026-06-30 quarterly review.