Standards

The Foundation’s standards define how AI behavioral evidence is preserved, scored, attested, and independently reviewed. The core public stack is the HEART Standard, GTE, MAP-States, Behavioral Oracle, RCTA/BGF, Guardians, and HVC.

Public standards

HEART Standard

The HEART Standard is the Foundation’s primary forensic audit architecture. It defines how deployer governance systems are evaluated through evidence, trust infrastructure, scoring, professional review, and domain-specific Divisions.

Official public version: The HEART Standard v1.8: Forensic Audit Infrastructure for Human-Centric AI Governance.
PDF: HEART Standard v1.8.

AI Behavioral Evidence Review Toolkit

The AI Behavioral Evidence Review Toolkit is the pre-certification entry point. It gives civic, academic, journalism, compliance, and policy users a way to preserve artifacts, document scope, classify behavior with RCTA vocabulary, and produce bounded evidence packets before full GTE deployment or HVC certification.

Governance Trust Envelope (GTE)

The GTE is the Foundation’s open trust infrastructure contribution and adoption wedge. It provides an execution-trust boundary for governance controls and is designed to be framework-agnostic, so it can support HEART controls, EU AI Act controls, ISO 42001 management-system components, NIST AI RMF practices, or a deployer’s internal governance logic.

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.

RCTA/BGF

RCTA names the four governance dimensions HEART measures: Recognition, Calibration, Transparency, and Accountability. BGF converts those dimensions into a non-compensatory score: Phi = MIN(R,C,T,A) x AVG(R,C,T,A).

Guardians and HVC

Guardians are the independent professional class that reviews evidence and applies Division-specific judgment. HVC is the market-legible credential issued when a deployer’s governance system meets the required threshold.