The GovernAI Charter.
A company that builds governance tools should publish how it governs itself. These are the commitments we hold ourselves to — and invite the world to hold us to.
For All Humanity
Our work serves people — every country, every community, every person. We build tools that strengthen the relationship between those who govern and those who are governed, never tools that exploit it.
Independence
We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or authorized by any government or government entity, and we are non-partisan by construction. We do not build tools to advance any party, faction, or ideology.
Human oversight
AI assists; accountable humans decide. We do not build systems that make governance decisions autonomously, and we design our products so that responsibility always rests with identifiable people.
Transparency
Our tools show their work: sources cited, reasoning traceable, limitations stated. We publish our research methods and correct our errors as loudly as we made them.
Privacy by design
We collect the minimum, protect what we hold, and honour the privacy rights of the people in every jurisdiction where we operate — including Canada’s PIPEDA and provincial laws, and U.S. state privacy laws.
Accountability
We keep the records we ask our customers to keep. Decisions about our products — what we build, what we refuse to build — are documented and owned.
Restraint
Some things we will not build: tools for surveillance of populations, voter manipulation, suppression of lawful speech, or any application designed to evade democratic accountability. Growth never overrides this article.