Governance Charter

How the Quiet AI Standard is governed, kept independent, and held accountable.

Mission and independence

Quiet AI™ is an independent private standards body. Reviews are produced by a diagnostic engine and issued under the Quiet AI Standards Committee. A result is determined by the evidence, never by the commercial relationship with the organization under review.

The Standard and its versioning

The Quiet AI Standard is maintained under version control, currently version 3.1. Changes to criteria and scoring are documented so that results remain interpretable over time.

Conflict of interest

Fees pay for the depth of a review, never for a particular score or outcome. We do not offer to raise a result in exchange for payment, and the review tier a client purchases is independent of the score they receive.

Issuance, suspension, and revocation

A result is issued only on the basis of the recorded evidence. It may be suspended or revoked if it was based on materially inaccurate information, or if circumstances change so that the recorded result no longer holds. Suspension removes any public verification record.

Appeals and disputes

An organization may request reconsideration of its result by writing to us with the basis for the appeal. We review the evidence and respond. An appeal does not limit any other remedy available to you, and any dispute is handled under our Terms of Service.

A completed review may remain sealed. Publication to the registry, and the mark, follow the client’s election within ninety days of issue; a result the client elects not to publish is never made public, and no mark is granted. The finding itself is never altered by that election.

Anonymity and institutional accountability

Reviewer anonymity at Quiet AI™ is a policy, not an omission. It exists for the same reason Michelin keeps its inspectors anonymous and academic journals review blind: an examiner who cannot be identified cannot be lobbied, befriended, or pressured. Results carry institutional signatures, the Quiet AI Standards Committee and the Office of the Lead Reviewer, and accountability for every result rests with the institution, which cannot recuse itself.

What the institution publishes instead of faces is everything a diligence review can verify. The operator of record is Diaz Industries Incorporated, incorporated in British Columbia, Canada, at 2992 Glen Drive, Unit 1300, Coquitlam, BC V3B 0V2. The QUIET AI word mark is Canadian trademark application 2476262, filed 20 May 2026, and Mexican application 3671869, class 42, filed 27 July 2026 claiming the Canadian priority; both are checkable in the public registers of CIPO and IMPI. The method is published in the methodology, the fee buys a review and never a result, no one is compensated on the outcome of a review, and any certificate can be checked at /verify/.