"Coherence Checker"

A governance-layer tool designed to integrate into existing institutional workflows.

What it is not:

• A productivity enhancer

• Surveillance

• Reputational compliance software

 

What it is:
A prototype structural accountability mechanism--open-access, auditable, non-proprietary--to audit high-impact institutional decisions.

What it does:

The tool pauses high-risk autonomous and human decisions and securely routes them through an open-source middleware layer that scans for linguistic markers of neutralizations used to rationalize poor-quality decisions (i.e., retaliation, assumption stacking, unconstructable logic, high-risk reasoning patterns), recognizes when a decision is impacted by optimization anxiety, and evaluates historical decisional ledgers to evaluate for moral drift. It then returns authority to humans by advancing the decision to a dashboard for human review that categorizes the specific fear-pattern or assumption identified, ensuring automated cryptographic logging--audit-ready documentation for contestability and review.​

 

The function
Decisions made with AI must remain transparent, contestable, and reconstructable. The Coherence Checker doesn't slow institutions down. It keeps them trustworthy at speed.

Why open-access
Trust infrastructure cannot be proprietary. If the tool that verifies accountability is itself opaque, owned, and unauditable, it solves nothing.

This is public governance infrastructure—designed for adoption, adaptation, and scrutiny.