Interactive knowledge
Warranted.
Owned.
Unwatched.
An auditable, indexable knowledge base, faithful to the source — with an assistant that answers from it, and only from it.
Ask it something. Then ask it something it shouldn't answer.
Demonstration · provisions illustrative
The unit
A shelf is not a pile of PDFs.
It's a certified, living corpus: provisions with stable IDs, a resolved citation graph, a currency spine, precomputed indexes, and two signatures — the creator's and ours. Law, standards, protocols — as a data structure.
An official source
Something to checksum against. If there's no authoritative text, there's no shelf.
Structured units
Provisions that can be addressed, cited, and diffed one at a time.
Internal cross-references
A citation graph that resolves. Every pointer lands somewhere real.
Scheduled change
It updates on a calendar. Currency is the product; staleness is displayed, never hidden.
The boundary is the business. No official source, no shelf. We'd rather decline a market than certify a guess.
Certification
Models draft. Code checks. A named human signs.
Seven stages, in order, every time. The order matters: provenance is settled before a model is allowed near the text.
Provenance
Checksums against the official source. The wall against machine-written pseudo-law.
Structure
Text becomes addressable provisions.
Citation graph
Must resolve at 100%. Not most. All.
Currency diff
What changed, effective when. This delta is what Courier carries.
Question banks
Absence probes and adversarial traps. The generator is never the reader under test.
Harness
Mechanical scoring. No opinions.
Accession
A named editor signs. The seal is a person's name, not a badge.
The output is a certification report — and you can re-run it yourself. That's the difference between a claim and a warrant.
The three questions
Ask these of anyone selling you knowledge.
Every vendor has a good answer to at least one. The architecture is in the other two.
Can you be compelled?
No.
There's no counterparty to serve. The box holds no session anyone else can produce, because no one else is there.
Can you be acquired and enclosed?
No.
The method and the name sit in a foundation with one veto: the commons can never be enclosed. Buy the company; the recipe stays free.
Can you turn off the tap?
No.
Updates can lapse. Access never does. A shelf you own keeps answering after we stop shipping — or stop existing.
Not as a promise. By construction.
Who it's for
Three rooms, one building.
Professions
Wherever you answer to an inspector, an auditor, an examiner, or a judge — the certification report is the thing you hand over. Buy the box; own the library.
See the shelves →Creators
You already are the authority in your field. The Studio is the press: author a shelf, keep your name on it, earn on every seat. The toolchain belongs to the commons.
Author a shelf →Partners
You're the IT department small firms already trust. Ship a box that never phones home, never bills by token, and never becomes your support problem.
Carry Codices →Structure
Three entities. One of them can say no.
The answers above are only as good as the corporate paper under them. So here's the paper.
Non-profit
The Foundation
Owns the method and the name. Free forever. One narrow golden-share veto: the commons can never be enclosed. It holds nothing valuable enough to be worth capturing — only the recipe.
Public benefit corp
Codices
Holds the exclusive commercial license: the libraries, the seal, the store. Pays the Foundation a real royalty. Investors hold ordinary preferred — no tricks, no caps.
Hardware
ArcQi
Builds the house the library lives in. Licenses commercially, at arm's length, funded by revenue.
A free, world-class reader for anyone, anywhere — and libraries that reach places wires don't.
A library no one can watch you read, no one can take back, and no one can disconnect.
Read the certification report