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Open Verifiable AI Consortium (OVAIC)

Charter, adopted 19 October 2026 by the founding members

1. Purpose

AI systems now take decisions that move money, shape public information and act on behalf of people. Trust in these decisions should not rest on the word of the party that operates the system.

OVAIC brings together organisations that build and test methods to make AI claims and decisions independently checkable: what evidence was used, who signed it, whether the sources are independent, and whether anyone can reproduce the result.

We build for future generations. Our aim is lasting public value that outlives any one company, not profit.

2. What we do

1. Open test bed: shared, public test cases (attacks, edge cases, real data) against which any member method can be run and compared.
2. Interoperability profiles: how signed evidence, provenance records, oracle data, proofs of computation and transparency receipts fit together.
3. Joint reports: reproducible results published with code and data.
4. Contributions to open standards (IETF, W3C, C2PA and others) by members in their own name.

3. Principles

1. Independence: no member, chain, AI vendor or certification body controls the consortium or its results.
2. Reproducibility: a claim counts only if others can reproduce it from published code and data.
3. Open correction: errors are corrected in public, with credit to whoever found them. A finding against a member's own method is welcome.
4. Plurality: members compare different approaches. OVAIC does not crown one technology.
5. No verdicts on trustworthiness: OVAIC publishes methods and test results. It does not certify that any system or person can be trusted.

4. Membership

• Members: companies, protocols, research groups and non-profits working on verification, provenance, evaluation or agent trust. Equal rights, one vote each.
• Observers: standards bodies, regulators and individual experts, without voting rights.
• Joining: a short application and acceptance of this charter. An annual fee graded by size, under the fee regulation.
• Conflicts of interest: every member declares its products. A member does not vote on results that concern its own method.

5. Governance

• General Assembly: all members; decides on the charter, budget and admission.
• Steering Group: five to seven members elected for one year, from different organisations and regions. No organisation holds more than one seat.
• Working Groups: open to all members; results are published under an open licence (code Apache 2.0, texts CC BY 4.0).
• Decisions: by consensus where possible, otherwise by two-thirds majority.

6. Legal form

An association (Verein) under Swiss law, seat in Zurich. Founding members sign the statutes; anyone may join later on the same terms.

7. Initiator

The Gravit Open Network Foundation initiates OVAIC and joins as one member on the same terms as all others. It holds no special rights.

8. First year

1. Founding meeting (online) with the first members.
2. Public test bed with the first shared cases.
3. First joint report.
4. Statutes registered in Zurich.

ovaic.org

Comments are welcome at ovaic.online/contact.