SEVEN CLAUSES  ·  AUDITABLE  ·  NOT SELF‑GRADED

A conviction is not a standard.

The Manifesto states what we believe a life is owed. This page states what any product claiming that belief can be checked against. Not our word. A test.

Why a standard, not just a conviction

A belief that cannot be audited is marketing. A belief that can be checked, clause by clause, against a delivered output is a standard. We publish ours so that any enterprise, regulator, or journalist can measure any product against it. Including this one.

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What This Page Is

The Manifesto is a set of convictions. This page is the test those convictions are supposed to pass. Seven clauses, each stated as a requirement a third party could check against a finished output, not a feeling the reader is asked to trust.

If a clause below cannot be checked from the outside, it does not belong on this page.

The clauses apply to any product in this category, built by anyone. A competitor who meets all seven has earned the claim. A competitor who does not has not, regardless of what their own marketing says. The same test applies to us.

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The Seven Clauses

Each clause names a requirement, then states what a reviewer, family, or auditor would need to see to confirm it. None require access to a provider's proprietary corpus, prompts, or model weights. All seven can be checked from the delivered output alone.

Clause I — Source-Bound Fact Every factual claim is traceable to a specific, disclosed, citable record.

No date, place, event, or biographical detail is invented, extrapolated beyond its source, or presented as verified when it is not. A reviewer can request the citation behind any factual sentence and receive a specific, checkable answer.

Clause II — Disclosed Provenance The family, or the licensee's end customer, can see which sources informed any specific passage.

Provenance is available on request, and where practical, by default in the delivered artifact. Trust is built on what informed the work, not on the model or method that assembled it.

Clause III — Labeled Interpretation Any claim about inner life, character, or motive is explicitly marked as interpretation, never fact.

Interpretive claims are bound to the documented psychological and historical norms of the subject's own community, not to general pattern-matching across unrelated lives. Community alone is not enough: the same historical norm reads differently depending on when in a life it arrived. A person who lived it directly as an adult, a person who watched it take shape as a young person, and a person born after it who inherited it as an unquestioned baseline are three different readings of the same norm, and the interpretation is bound to whichever one actually applies to that subject. A reader can always tell which sentences are record and which are reading.

Clause IV — Data Control and Erasure The subject or family can access, correct, and permanently delete submitted data and generated output, at any time, without needing to state a reason.

Control does not expire at the point of sale. It is available for the life of the record.

Clause V — Disclosed Confidence Any interpretive output whose evidentiary support falls below a stated threshold is disclosed as low-confidence, or withheld.

Certainty is never manufactured to make a narrative read more smoothly. Where the record is thin, the output says so.

Clause VI — Human Review Before Delivery Every output is reviewed against this standard by a person before it reaches a family or an end customer.

No output is machine-generated and machine-delivered with no human accountable for it in between.

Clause VII — Verifiable Without Method Disclosure Compliance with Clauses I through VI can be audited from the output and its citations alone.

A reviewer does not need access to a provider's proprietary corpus, prompts, or training method to confirm a product meets this standard. Radical trust is control and provenance, made visible. It is not a demand that the method be given away, from us or from anyone held to this page.

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How to Use This Page

Enterprise buyers: put this page in front of any vendor in this category, ours included, and ask them to answer each clause with a specific mechanism, not a sentiment. A vendor who cannot name how Clause I or Clause V is enforced has not met the standard, whatever else is in their pitch.

Regulators and journalists: this is the checklist we expect to be measured against as AI enters death care and genealogy. We would rather be the first company graded against a public standard than the last company asked to explain why one did not exist.

Seven clauses. Checkable from the output, not the method. A standard is only worth publishing if it can be failed, including by us.

Monica WagnerFounder