CSOAI — Council of AI
CSOAI — Council of AI — is the public measurement service operated by CSOAI Ltd, a company incorporated in England and Wales on 2 January 2026 (Companies House 16939677), founded by Nicholas Templeman. We run AI systems and digital rails against published instruments, grade deterministically where the method permits it, publish signed evidence and corrections, and keep unmeasured or uncheckable states visible. Verification is free. We measure; we do not certify, accredit, issue legal-compliance determinations, sell a rank, or take money from anything we rank.
How to read the board: measurement coverage and model-ranking separation are different determinations. TIE means the evidence does not justify a hierarchy; UNTESTED means no separation test is published yet; deterministic-fact axes have no model leader by design.
23 axes measured · 14 model comparisons: 0 separated · 7 TIE · 7 UNTESTED · 9 fact runs · TIE is TIE · not a certificate.
Independent AI-governance measurement. This repository is the live site, API and signing pipeline behind councilof.ai: the 23-axis GSPC board, Ed25519-signed measurement cards, the signed Merkle public root and its transparency-log witness, the corrections ledger, the A2A agent card, the x402 manifest, and the PyPI / npm readers. Measurement, not certification.
derived 2026-10-07T10:35:32Z by scripts/github/org-readme.py — every number on this page is read live from the URLs in that script; if this page and the API disagree, the API is right.
The board today
GET https://councilof.ai/api/gspc — schema csoai.gspc-axes/0.5 · totals.public_count = 23 axes · 23 measured
| # | axis | family | kind | n | status | separation | leader carried? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | governance | gspc | model-comparison | 237 | MEASURED | TIE | yes — accuracy 0.5865 |
| 2 | safety | gspc | model-comparison | 36 | MEASURED | TIE | yes — accuracy 0.9444 |
| 3 | provenance | gspc | model-comparison | 32 | MEASURED | TIE | yes — accuracy 0.7188 |
| 4 | continuity | gspc | model-comparison | 33 | MEASURED | TIE | yes — accuracy 0.6061 |
| 5 | conformance | gspc | model-comparison | 35 | MEASURED | TIE | yes — accuracy 0.7143 |
| 6 | openness | gspc | model-comparison | 32 | MEASURED | TIE | yes — accuracy 0.8438 |
| 7 | machinery-conformity | gspc | model-comparison | 33 | MEASURED | UNTESTED | no — no signed card |
| 8 | care | gspc | model-comparison | 199 | MEASURED | TIE | yes — accuracy 0.405 |
| 9 | cross-reality | gspc | model-comparison | 32 | MEASURED | UNTESTED | no — no signed card |
| 10 | detector-interop | gspc | model-comparison | 33 | MEASURED | UNTESTED | no — no signed card |
| 11 | art5-safeguard | gspc | model-comparison | 36 | MEASURED | UNTESTED | no — own model led, excluded |
| 12 | swarm | gspc | model-comparison | 37 | MEASURED | UNTESTED | yes — accuracy 0.4444 |
| 13 | affect | gspc | model-comparison | 41 | MEASURED | UNTESTED | no — own model led, excluded |
| 14 | jail | gspc | model-comparison | 71 | MEASURED | UNTESTED | yes — accuracy 0.5915 |
| 15 | effect-binding | gspc | deterministic-facts | 261 | MEASURED | — | no leader by design (facts run) |
| 16 | provenance-controls | financial | deterministic-facts | 6 | MEASURED | — | no leader by design (facts run) |
| 17 | reserve-attestation | financial | deterministic-facts | 16 | MEASURED | — | no leader by design (facts run) |
| 18 | regulatory-framework | financial | deterministic-facts | 16 | MEASURED | — | no leader by design (facts run) |
| 19 | distribution-integrity | financial | deterministic-facts | 16 | MEASURED | — | no leader by design (facts run) |
| 20 | custody-disclosure | financial | deterministic-facts | 16 | MEASURED | — | no leader by design (facts run) |
| 21 | ai-adoption-components | financial | deterministic-facts | 2 | MEASURED | — | no leader by design (facts run) |
| 22 | labour-components | financial | deterministic-facts | 2 | MEASURED | — | no leader by design (facts run) |
| 23 | humanoid-labour-index | financial | deterministic-facts | 8 | MEASURED | — | no leader by design (facts run) |
Counted from the axes array at derive time: 23 rows — MEASURED 23 — agrees with totals.axes. Separation over the 14 model-comparison axes: SEPARATED 0 · TIE 7 · UNTESTED 7. A TIE is not a win; UNTESTED is not a win; a facts run has no leader. Living stamp: SIGNED (did:web:csoai.org#board-attestation-1). Board data: CC-BY-4.0.
Card inventory (14 Oct 2026)
Dated snapshot, not a live count — the live count is /signed/card_index.json. A one-off scan of 8 of 9 storage locations on 14 Oct 2026 found 11,929 unique signed measurement cards, 7,994 with a VALID signature, and 335 live and verifiable on councilof.ai. Method, scope and the source summary: evidence/card-inventory-2026-10-14.md.
What a stranger can verify in four curls
# 1. the lid — the one sentence the board is allowed to say about itself
curl -s https://councilof.ai/api/gspc | python3 -c 'import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)["totals"]["lid"])'
# 2. the signed public root — Merkle root, leaf count, timestamp (card_count MUST equal len(card_sha256))
curl -s https://councilof.ai/root.json | python3 -c 'import sys,json; r=json.load(sys.stdin); print(r["merkle_root"], r["card_count"], len(r["card_sha256"]), r["as_of"])'
# 3. pin the card key from the DID document — never trust the key a card ships with
curl -s https://csoai.org/.well-known/did.json | python3 -c 'import sys,json,base64; k=[v for v in json.load(sys.stdin)["verificationMethod"] if v["id"].endswith("#card-attestation-1")][0]["publicKeyJwk"]["x"]; print(base64.urlsafe_b64decode(k+"="*(-len(k)%4)).hex())'
# 4. verify any card against that pinned key — three states only: VALID · INVALID · UNCHECKABLE
pipx run --spec 'csoai-gspc[verify]' csoai-gspc verify "$(curl -s https://councilof.ai/signed/card_index.json | python3 -c 'import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)["cards"][0]["card"])')"
The integrity stack
| layer | live now | where |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · Ed25519-signed measurement cards | 335 cards (n_cards == n_cells: True), one key d4cb0eaa… = did:web:csoai.org#card-attestation-1 | /signed/card_index.json · how to verify |
| 2 · Signed Merkle public root | csoai.public-root/v1 · root 47277a6f2034… · 319 leaves (card_count == len(card_sha256): True) · as_of 2026-09-30T05:05:34Z · signed: True | /root.json · how to verify the root |
| 3 · Transparency-log witness | Rekor WITNESSED · OpenTimestamps CONFIRMED_BITCOIN · EAS NOT_YET · witnessed root 47277a6f2034… equals live root.json at derive time: True · pointer's own last drift check DRIFTED at 2026-09-30T05:07:06Z · conflict NONE | /interop/root-witness-pointer.json · sidecar |
| 4 · Corrections ledger | 93 entries · latest C-2026-0822-01 (2026-08-22) · signature_state VALID · CC-BY-4.0 | /api/corrections |
| Living board stamp | SIGNED under did:web:csoai.org#board-attestation-1 | /api/gspc → measured_on.living_stamp |
| Third-party Hub cells | 411 cells: MEASURED 411 · UNMEASURED 0 · complete read: True (as_of 2026-10-07T10:35:26.762Z — re-GET /api/hub-cards → .counts; never freeze) | /api/hub-cards |
| Keys (DID) | did:web:csoai.org · 7 verification methods · card key x=1MsOqhbV9Q… | /.well-known/did.json |
| A2A agent card · x402 manifest | Council of AI — Measurement Agent, 12 skills · csoai.x402/0.2, network eip155:8453, mode live, 31 metered resources | /.well-known/agent.json · /.well-known/x402.json |
Four populations appear above on purpose and are never reconciled here: the signed-card index (335 via /signed/card_index.json), the living /api/cards registry (336), the public-root leaf count (319 via /root.json), and the Hub cells (live GET /api/hub-cards → .counts; currently 411/411/0). Quote each with its URL. Ceremony: card verify ≠ root inclusion — signed-index/root identifier overlap = 0; never sell “335 in the root.”
Buyers (the one number): distinct_nonself_payers = 2 all-time · 2 in 30 d · 2 settlements · status MEASURED — read from /api/revenue. Published because a measurement body that hides its own zero has no standing to publish anyone else's.
Install the readers
pip install csoai-gspc # 0.2.20261007.1 — board, axis, verify, root, snapshot
npx csoai-gspc-mcp # 0.2.2 — stdio MCP server over the same endpoints
Products
| product | what you get | door (live status at derive time) |
|---|---|---|
commission-card | Commission a signed card (request-attestation) | /api/request-attestation?subject=csoai&axis=honesty → 402 |
evidence-bundle | Evidence bundle mapped to an obligation | /api/evidence-bundle?obligation=article-50&subject=csoai&bundle=1 → 402 |
eu-ai-act-pack | EU AI Act pack (Article 50 / 53 transparency) | /api/evidence-bundle?obligation=article-53&subject=csoai&bundle=1 → 402 |
swift-bank-pack | SWIFT/bank census evidence pack | /api/evidence-bundle?obligation=dora&subject=csoai&bundle=1 → 402 |
xrpl-asset-evidence | XRPL asset evidence card (per request) | /api/rwa/evidence?asset=RLUSD → 402 |
signed-data-feed | Signed data feed (assembly + cadence) | /api/eunomia-data?feed=1 → 402 |
provider-diff-feed | Provider document diff feed | /api/feeds/provider-diff?history=1 → 402 |
receipts-batch | Receipts batch (historical measurement leaves) | /api/receipts/batch?from=2026-09-01&to=2026-09-05 → 402 |
art50-marking-evidence | Article 50 transparency marking evidence (per asset) | /api/art50/marking-evidence?url=/ → 402 |
9 products read from docs/product/_INDEX.json (as_of 2026-09-06T06:00:18Z). A 402 means the door is metered by x402 and the amount appears only in that 402 challenge — never here, never on the board. Verification of every artefact is free.
Where the board is published
| surface | what lands there | read back at derive time | carries the live root as_of? |
|---|---|---|---|
Hugging Face dataset csoai/gspc-board | snapshot/ — board.json + root.json byte-for-byte, SNAPSHOT.json, check-board.sh, gspc-axes.csv/.jsonl | as_of 2026-09-30T05:05:34Z · merkle 47277a6f2034… · 319 leaves · modified 2026-10-07T09:25:15.000Z | yes |
Hugging Face Space csoai/gspc-board | the same snapshot/ folder beside the one living Space | runtime RUNNING · modified 2026-10-06T16:16:19.000Z | n/a |
Kaggle dataset nicktempleman/csoai-gspc-living-board | a new dataset version per changed fingerprint; the subtitle carries as_of | HTTP 200 · latest ISO timestamp on the listing page 2026-10-06T16:16:11Z | no — behind |
GitHub mirror CSOAI-ORG/gspc-board | the snapshot files on main | as_of 2026-09-22T08:54:02Z · merkle 40ce3833118f… · 305 leaves | no — behind |
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.22293340 | a new version under the concept DOI, isDerivedFrom the methodology record 10.5281/zenodo.21991104 | 1 versions · latest 10.5281/zenodo.22344048 = as_of 2026-09-05T09:00:28Z (2026-09-05) | no — behind |
PyPI csoai-gspc | csoai-gspc==0.2.<YYYYMMDD> — reader + verifier, snapshot bundled as package data | 0.2.20261007.1 · uploaded 2026-10-07T05:36:24 · Apache-2.0 | n/a |
npm csoai-gspc-mcp | stdio MCP server over the same endpoints (published by hand — the account is WebAuthn, so the daily spray cannot push here) | 0.2.2 · published 2026-09-13T14:42:17.493Z · Apache-2.0 | n/a |
Pushed by scripts/spray/gspc-spray.py (daily, idempotent by as_of and fingerprint). The live root as_of at derive time was 2026-09-30T05:05:34Z; a surface that lags is shown lagging, not reconciled. Board data is CC-BY-4.0; the reader packages are Apache-2.0 / Apache-2.0.
Source mirror. This repository is the GitHub source of record for source changes. A public mirror is also available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/csoai/councilof-ai-source; live public evidence remains at https://councilof.ai.
Hosting and deploy
| Host | Cloudflare Pages project | Deploy |
|---|---|---|
| councilof.ai / www | councilof-ai | GitHub Actions deploy.yml → wrangler pages deploy |
| csoai.org | csoai-site | Wrangler (csoai-site-deploy.yml) |
Vercel is not the live host. The leftover Vercel Git links (csoai-v2-app, councilof-ai-src) were disconnected and those Vercel projects deleted on 31 Aug 2026.
Build (this repo):
npm run build:client
bash scripts/prerender-run.sh --dist dist/client --wait 900 --min 350
# GHA deploy.yml ships dist/client to Cloudflare Pages
Do not run npx vite build from the repo root (it picks up a dead src/). Do not vercel deploy this site.
Agents — paid artefacts (x402)
The board and verification stay free. Metered artefacts (issuance, evidence assembly, signed feeds) are on the x402 rail. Amounts live only in the HTTP 402 challenge — this README does not invent a price. A grade is never sold.
- Catalog: https://councilof.ai/api/x402
- Manifest: https://councilof.ai/.well-known/x402.json
- MCP: https://councilof.ai/mcp (
commission_cardand the other paid tools return a 402 asstructuredContentuntil paid)
Verified week-one revenue (PayAI bazaar, 2026-09-16)
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| External USDC settled | $0.02 |
| Distinct external payers | 1 (paid), 10+ (free-door) |
| Issuances | 8 |
| CSOAI /api/free-door settlements/30d | 18 |
| CSOAI uptime | 100% |
| csoai-gspc-mcp npm downloads (last-month) | 776 |
Source: GET https://councilof.ai/api/revenue and PayAI bazaar stats.
Buyer integration guides
- Python (eth_account): https://github.com/CSOAI-ORG/csoai-x402-buyer-guide
- TypeScript (viem): https://github.com/CSOAI-ORG/csoai-x402-typescript-example
- Revenue catalog: https://github.com/CSOAI-ORG/csoai-x402-revenue
- Week-one report: https://github.com/CSOAI-ORG/csoai-blog-x402-revenue
Network: Base (eip155:8453) · Asset: USDC · Pay-to: 0x212686404A7D1E1fD88F35eD6200c3aF7A78ae31 · Promo $0.01 until 2027-01-11 (extended 7 Oct 2026; was 2026-10-11).
Documentation
What we never do
- Certify AI systems or issue compliance badges
- Sell ratings, ranking position, or early sight of grades
- Remediate or recommend fixes in exchange for fees
- Take money in either direction from anything we rank
Surfaces
| Surface | Purpose |
|---|---|
| councilof.ai | Measurement body — signed credentials, verify, scoreboard |
| csoai.org | Public site / DID apex |
| meok.ai | MEOK OS — yours, on your keys |
License
MIT © CSOAI-ORG