"Coherence Checker"

A governance-layer tool designed to integrate into

existing institutional workflows.

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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. The Coherence Checker is now integrated with VeracIQ, a patent-pending framework developed by Founding Humanity Partner Jennifer Kinne (Harvard University) for detecting epistemic drift in AI-assisted workflows before it becomes an architectural or regulatory failure.

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What it does:

The tool pauses high-risk autonomous and human decisions and securely routes them through an open-source middleware layer that operates at two levels:

• Epistemic layer (VeracIQ): Before behavioral analysis begins, the tool evaluates whether the reasoning chain underlying a decision is reconstructable — whether the links between data, inference, and action can be inspected, contested, and corrected by a human reviewer. A decision that fails this threshold is flagged as epistemically ungovernable, regardless of how confident the system or decision-maker appears. Confidence without demonstrable justification is itself a risk.

• Behavioral layer (Coherence Checker): The tool then scans for linguistic markers of neutralizations used to rationalize poor-quality decisions — including retaliation, assumption stacking, unconstructable logic, and high-risk reasoning patterns — recognizes when a decision is impacted by optimization anxiety, and evaluates historical decisional ledgers for moral drift. It returns authority to humans by advancing the decision to a dashboard for human review, categorizing the specific fear-pattern or assumption identified, and ensuring automated cryptographic logging — audit-ready documentation for contestability and review.

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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. VeracIQ ensures that speed does not outpace our ability to verify what the system has done, intended to do, and is structurally capable of doing next.

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

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