Normalize
The engine normalizes the submitted language. It sends no text to an external model and stores no proposal.
CIVIC-PROOF-1.0 / OPEN EVALUATION INFRASTRUCTURE
COMPILE
POWER.
A transparent first-pass test for AI systems, product policies, community rules, and digital institutions.
No opaque model. No invented morality score. Every result exposes the exact phrase, rule, question, and constitutional source that produced it.
00 / LIVE ENGINE
PUT A PROPOSAL UNDER PRESSURE.
INPUT / PROPOSED SYSTEM OR RULE96 / 5,000
CIVIC-PROOF-1.0READY
Submit a system, policy, product rule, or governance proposal. The engine will expose the exact signals, constitutional articles, and unanswered safeguards it detects.
01 / METHOD
DETERMINISTIC BY DESIGN.
Match
Published risk and safeguard phrases are matched against eight versioned constitutional rules.
Expose
The result returns every match, missing review question, article citation, score, version, and limitation.
Challenge
CivicProofBench tests predictable behavior. Independent reviewers can add cases, dispute signals, and reproduce output.
SCORING FORMULA
score = clamp(100 − 12 × risk signals + 4 × safeguards)A score is a routing signal for human review, not a certification of legality, ethics, safety, or public legitimacy.
02 / RULESET
EIGHT RULES. FULLY INSPECTABLE.
Human agency
Can a person understand, refuse, or override the system without penalty?
- Risk phrases
- 8
- Safeguards
- 6
Truth before mythology
Can another person trace the material claims to evidence and see uncertainty?
- Risk phrases
- 7
- Safeguards
- 7
Consent and privacy
Is data collection necessary, consented to, minimized, protected, and deletable?
- Risk phrases
- 9
- Safeguards
- 7
No autonomous coercion
Can an automated decision materially punish a person without accountable human review?
- Risk phrases
- 8
- Safeguards
- 6
Transparent power
Are the decision-maker, applicable rule, conflict, rationale, and appeal path visible?
- Risk phrases
- 6
- Safeguards
- 6
Reproducible contribution
Can an independent reviewer reproduce the material result from published inputs and methods?
- Risk phrases
- 5
- Safeguards
- 6
The right to leave
Can a participant leave, revoke consent, retrieve their work, and remove optional data?
- Risk phrases
- 6
- Safeguards
- 6
Amendment by evidence
Is a rule change proposed, reviewable, dated, decided, and archived in public?
- Risk phrases
- 5
- Safeguards
- 6
03 / PUBLIC DATASET
100 GOLD CASES. ZERO PRIVATE INPUTS.
FOUNDED AND AUTHORED IN NEW YORK CITY
MARCO HERGI BUILT THE FIRST VERSION.
The next credibility layer is external: independent cases, critiques, forks, citations, and measured use. Those signals will be recorded only when they actually exist.
Canonical founder record