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The 10+1 Code™
Ship fast.
Govern faster.
Your AI is in production. Your governance is in a slide deck. The 10+1 is for everything that happens in between.
The accountability gap
You built the AI.
Own what it does.
AI systems don't fail loudly. They fail silently — suppressing data, misclassifying records, burying signals no one sees. No crash. No alert. Just bad decisions made on incomplete information.
Regulatory reality
EU AI Act enforces August 2026
Penalties up to €35 million or 7% of global turnover per violation. Enforcement is not theoretical.
The US vacuum
No binding US standard exists
No enforcement timeline. No federal rules. No guidance. Companies running AI without governance are writing their own liability in real time.
The hidden failure
The AI isn't broken. It's ungoverned.
In a real case, $2.6 billion in acquisition pipeline was invisible to the humans running it. No malfunction. No error. The system simply wasn't governed.
The 10+1 Standard
Wherever humans and AI meet,
the 10+1 is there.
What it is
The cultural standard for how people in an organization apply the 10+1 Code in meetings, decisions, and deliberations.
What it does
Establishes shared norms for how teams discuss, escalate, and decide on AI-related matters before any system is deployed.
One benefit
Your team operates from the same principles, so AI decisions don’t depend on which person is in the room.
What it is
Decision support for executives, boards, and counsel approving high-stakes AI deployments.
What it does
Walks decision-makers through the moment of approval and records what was approved, what was questioned, and why.
One benefit
When something goes wrong six months later, the conversation that authorized it is on the record — not lost in someone’s inbox.
What it is
A runtime governance layer that sits inside your deployed AI system and watches every output in real time.
What it does
Flags what the AI misclassified, what it suppressed, and what it should have surfaced — and maps every flag to a specific compliance obligation.
One benefit
When a regulator asks how you know your AI is behaving correctly, you have an answer with receipts.
What it is
The standard for how AI systems from different organizations interact with each other.
What it does
Defines what two AI systems are allowed to share, what they have to verify, and what to do when their answers don’t match.
One benefit
Your AI systems can negotiate and exchange information across organizational boundaries under shared rules instead of in the dark.
What it is
A deployed measurement instrument that quantifies the human effect of AI systems after deployment, across six domains grounded in the 10+1 Code: Agency Preservation, Dignity Integrity, Transparency Fidelity, Distributional Equity, Moral Accountability, and Flourishing Delta.
What it does
Produces a structured 10+1 Impact Score on a 30, 90, or 180-day cadence and supports both manual assessment and event log import for integration with enterprise monitoring stacks.
One benefit
You can answer the question every other governance layer raises but cannot resolve on its own — did it work, and are the humans touched by this system better off?
Case study
The $2.6 billion blind spot.
A healthcare M&A firm processing hundreds of thousands of physician records was running AI in production with no governance. Then we built it.
$2.6B
Pipeline unlocked
100%
Accuracy gained
3.3×
Token reduction
3.8×
Faster execution
Who we work with
You're shipping AI into environments where a wrong decision costs more than a failed sprint.
AI startups
You're moving fast and shipping real products. The 10+1 gives you a governance story you can show to regulators, investors, and customers — without slowing you down. So when someone asks how your AI is governed, you have an answer ready.
AI resellers & implementation firms
You're deploying AI for clients and you're the one holding the risk. The 10+1 lowers your liability, cuts your token costs, and gives your clients a governance standard they can show their own boards.
CISOs & security leaders
You're responsible for AI systems you didn't build, running in places you only partially control. The 10+1 shows you what those systems are actually doing in real time — and gives you the receipts when someone asks you to prove it.
CAIOs & AI leadership
You own the AI strategy. You answer to the board. The 10+1 makes sure every AI deployment you've approved is actually governed — not just covered by a slide deck and good intentions.
Let's talk.
Whether you're deploying AI governance for the first time or formalizing what you already know you need, every engagement starts with a conversation.
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