Infrastructure for Trustworthy AI
The Missing
Trust Layer
of the Internet
What we need: AI that keeps its promises
The Information Tsunami
Promises are cheap to make
But expensive to verify.
Information is exponential
We're drowning in claims, predictions, and promises. AI makes this worse—anyone can generate infinite plausible-sounding content in seconds.
Verification is linear
Checking facts, tracking outcomes, and holding people accountable happens one claim at a time. Human attention doesn't scale.
Markets fail
When you can't tell who's reliable, bad actors drive out good ones. The result: a race to the bottom where honesty is punished and manipulation rewarded.
THE INSIGHT
What if we could audit expectations and verify outcomes?
Before: Justify The Claim
Use structured reasoning to show why a claim is valid. Decompose it. Show evidence. Make assumptions auditable.
After: Prove The Outcome
Independent assessors verify whether the promise was fulfilled. They stake their own reputation. Promise-keepers earn trust. Promise-breakers lose it.
This isn't a reputation system.
This isn't a review platform.
This is a trust protocol—infrastructure for making promises verifiable and verification economically rational.
II. WHAT THIS ENABLES
Business Evaluation
A startup claims they'll reduce customer acquisition cost by 20% in 6 months.
Abductio shows which assumptions their claims are based on, and whether there are weak links that may lead to failure.
Sponsio tracks the actual outcomes and updates merit scores based on the result.
Expert Services
A security firm promises to conduct a security audit on an app within one week.
Abductio enables the firm to spot weak links within minutes, enabling the firm to prioritize bottlenecks.
Sponsio makes each of the results deliverable as a promise, from the total duration of the security audit to the future security of the system.
AI Accountability
An AI system promises: "I will flag ≥95% of policy violations with ≤5% false positives."
Abductio documents the evaluation methodology, test sets, and confidence bounds.
Sponsio tracks real-world performance and downgrades the AI's merit if it fails.
Same protocol. Any domain. Verifiable trust.
HOW WE FUND THE FUTURE OF TRUST
Promise Foundation (Platform Cooperative)
- Owns: open protocol/specs, certification mark, conformance tests.
- Earns: certification fees, platform services, platform fee from products, grants.
- Distributes surplus: patronage refunds to contributors + reserves/innovation (per policy).
- Not for sale: mission and mark stay neutral and open.
Extraordinary Evidence GmbH
- Products: Abductio — Due Diligence-as-a-Service (DDaaS).
- Revenue: SaaS subscriptions, usage (API/evidence storage), integration services.
- Pays: platform fee (10–20% of revenue) + transfer-priced shared services to Foundation.
- Cap table: Foundation + Founders/Team (incl. ESOP/VSOP) + Investors (standard rights).
Unrival GmbH
- Role: A community platform that connects goal setters with resources that help them succeed.
- Works with: Foundation programs & certified microenterprises to route resources, mentors, and opportunities.
Your Microenterprise
Build with us and benefit from our trust infrastructure by grounding your company in verifiable promises.
- Promise-tracking promise: Your company makes staked, verifiable promises on a valid Promise Protocol ledger defining its behaviors to the outside world.
- Abductio promise: Your company's promises must achieve ≥ 0.75 Credence and ≥ 0.75 Confidence in a verified Abductio report.
- Prosocial promise: Your company promotes a world that works for all.
- Profit promise: Your company has a viable path to profit within one year.
Investor Returns
Equity in the GmbH with standard rights. Returns via dividends and/or liquidity events (e.g., M&A). The open protocol remains in the Foundation to keep the ecosystem trustworthy.
Contributor Rewards
Salaries/fees for product work in the GmbH + patronage refunds from the Foundation for protocol, testing, and certification contributions.
Why This Aligns
Venture-style growth happens in the GmbH, while the Foundation keeps the standard open and neutral. Products benefit from shared trust rails; the ecosystem benefits from verified outcomes.
Illustrative Economics (Year 2)
- €4.0M revenue (SaaS + services)
- Platform fee 15% → €600k to Foundation
- Profitable → dividends or reinvestment
- Income: platform fees + certification
- Surplus split: patronage, reserves, innovation
- No equity exit pressure
- Board: 1 Foundation • 1 Founders • 1 Investors
- License & brand covenants keep the spec open
- Clear conflict-of-interest & audit rules
Figures are for illustration only and not forecasts or an offer of securities.
III. THE MOVEMENT
Trust is infrastructure,
not a product
PROMISE is a platform cooperative—owned by the contributors who build it, the experts who assess on it, the providers who pledge on it, and the communities who rely on it.
Anyone can build on it. No gatekeepers.
Contributors earn equity through verified work.
No exit pressure. Build for the long term.
Builders, experts, and believers in a better internet