The long view on what it takes to build mandatory AI governance infrastructure. Reflections, origin stories, and the occasional design tangent from Christopher Hamilton.
A founder's notes on an adjacent piece of infrastructure, and the stack we're building alongside it. Why VI is the clearest statement yet of what the credential layer should look like, and why the runtime execution-control layer is what we're building. Governed by the aiGUARD pipeline; a live GEC certificate is issued on the final text.
Read the postThe first thing Claude produced was rubbish. Its next three attempts weren't much better. Then something changed. The story of building the aiGUARD brand mark through five iterations in a single morning, and what the process taught me about working with an AI collaborator who doesn't roll their eyes when you work at 4am.
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