Mission
The Heart AI Foundation exists to make AI governance forensically reviewable. It develops public standards, trust infrastructure, certification methods, and evidence practices so governance claims can be evaluated through preserved behavioral evidence rather than promise.
Why we exist
AI governance fails when the entity being evaluated controls the evidence about its own compliance. The Foundation exists to remove that conflict by publishing forensic audit infrastructure: evidence preservation, chain of custody, governance-state attestation, independent scoring, and professional review procedures that third parties can inspect.
Institutional status
The Heart AI Foundation is registered in Oregon as a nonprofit public benefit corporation. Federal 501(c)(3) tax-exempt recognition is pending.
What we commit to
- Publish the HEART Standard and the supporting technical vocabulary.
- Maintain independent certification practices through Guardians.
- Maintain the GTE open trust infrastructure as a framework-agnostic contribution to AI governance.
- Certify deployer governance systems rather than AI models.
- Keep the measurement model separated from the product, platform, or commercial implementation being assessed.
- Support research that can replicate, challenge, or refine the public specifications.
- Design operations to resist commercial, regulatory, ideological, founder, and self-capture.
What we do not do
- We do not ask systems to certify themselves.
- We do not sell the standard as a closed proprietary product.
- We do not conflate open research with certified compliance.
- We do not treat Dwell, EMPI House, HeartCore Ventures, or any other commercial implementation as the Foundation’s charitable program.