How We Make Decisions at ICI -- and Why That Matters Published April 2, 2026 Most governance frameworks tell you what they believe. ICI shows you how we decide. Today we're publishing our first formal Decision Record -- a document that captures, in full, how ICI is reaching a foundational conclusion about how epistemic integrity operates within our framework. Not just the conclusion. The process. The disagreements. The uncertainties. The names of everyone who contributed, wha

By Andi Mazingo The Trump administration has made its position clear: there will be no public regulatory agency for artificial intelligence. No equivalent of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. No Sarbanes-Oxley moment for the AI era — at least not from this government, and not now. We didn't wait. The Institutional Coherence Initiative exists because governance vacuums don't stay empty. They fill, either with public infrastructure built in the interest of everyone

By Andi Mazingo, Esq. NIST AI 800-4 (March 2026) spelled out what’s broken in post-deployment AI monitoring—and it could nearly serve as a mission statement for the Institutional Coherence Initiative. Over the past few months, ICI identified the same problems and has been developing proposed solutions to each gap NIST lists. (Check out our chart. Yes, we like charts.) One question from the report captures the real bottleneck: how do we build lasting infrastructure for continu