About Orchestrate

Flipping the Script on AI Governance

Communities have always governed the systems that affect them, through laws, norms, and the right to change the rules when they cause harm. AI deployment broke that feedback loop. Governance gets baked into models at training time, locked in by vendors, and put beyond the reach of the communities subject to it.

Orchestrate offers communities a way to write enforceable governance standards for AI systems operating in their world. The burden of compliance sits with the companies deploying the AI, not with the communities.

We do this by positioning an Independent Governance Layer inside the AI stack, one that decouples governance from the underlying AI models, that communities own and vendors cannot override. By embedding governance there, communities get the upper hand instead of forever playing catch-up.

We offer stakeholders affected by a specific AI deployment (borrowers, regulators, advocates, practitioners) a framework for the co-authorship of a Community Constitution: a human-readable, legally grounded governance document that translates local social norms and regional regulations into measurable, machine-executable rules.

The Community Constitution is not a policy statement; it is a technical specification. It defines the AI's operating envelope through measurable rules, quantifiable escalation thresholds, appeal rights, prohibited data sources, and a formal amendment process. Each Constitution is written to be enforced upon the AI system itself, providing a clear standard for the companies that deploy it and the regulators and communities that hold them accountable.

AI providers and application developers must demonstrate that their systems operate within these guidelines, continuously, with auditable evidence for the stakeholders to assess. We propose a machine-verifiable handshake as the technical mechanism for that demonstration. Read more about the technical architecture of the Governance Layer. Using this framework, we offer a fundamental shift away from catch-up governance to embedded governance.

What we are not

We are not an AI vendor. We do not build the compliance infrastructure inside companies' systems—that is their responsibility.

Through the Governance Layer, we have shown that it is technically feasible for companies to operate with total transparency and adhere to community standards without compromising their proprietary logic.

See it in practice 

We have drafted four illustrative constitutions covering credit assessment in Kenya, employment screening in Canada, work permit processing in the UAE, and healthcare diagnostics in Japan. Each is grounded in AI systems currently operating in that domain.

They are the starting point. The next step is for regulators, government AI oversight bodies, and affected communities to convene the stakeholders needed to negotiate, amend, and adopt the actual versions that will govern real systems. Read: Four Countries, Four Real Use Cases . And our latest post we show a proof of concept for how communities can manage high-consequence automated decision systems through specific Constitutions. We demonstrate how a Constitution can be integrated into the AI stack without requiring updates to the underlying AI, and without significant latency or performance hits. 

Founders

Todd Simpson has built technology companies, led innovation at Mozilla and AVG, invested in emerging technologies at Inovia Capital, and currently serves on the board of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.

Anar Simpson has scaled programs across 100+ countries through Technovation, and worked on women's economic empowerment with the UN High-Level Panel and the U.S. State Department's TechWomen initiative.

With Orchestrate's Constitution Layer they see a way to flip the script on AI Governance.