About Orchestrate

Orchestrate advocates for Community-Led AI Governance.

We address the "black box" problem by moving governance to an active, technical Constitution. This framework enables citizens to define the ethical guardrails and functional requirements that high-risk applications (credit, healthcare, employment etc.) must respond to.

How it Works:

• Communities define the boundaries: Stakeholders co-design the rules that reflect local values and needs.
  
• Providers build the response: The onus is on 3rd-party AI providers and application developers to implement the technical triggers that allow their systems to respect the community Constitution.
  
• The Framework enforces and iterates: An independent layer sits between models and applications to ensure compliance in real-time and adapt based on evidence.

Todd Simpson has built technology companies, led innovation at scale at Mozilla and AVG, and invested in emerging technologies at Inovia Capital. 

He is a member of the Board of Directors at Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII).

Anar Simpson has scaled technology programs globally:  from grassroots entrepreneurship in 100+ countries through Technovation, to policy work with the UN High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment and the  U.S. State Department initiative TechWomen.

Between us, we have built technology companies, led open-source movements at Mozilla, invested in emerging technologies, and scaled programs globally. From that vantage point, we have seen a consistent pattern: technology shapes lives. It sits at the center of the systems communities depend on everyday. 

While third-party AI systems have internal safety protocols, those protocols are often generic. They lack the nuance and local compatibility that institutions and communities need. Once deployed, these systems are frequently static and unable to adapt to the evidence of what goes wrong in practice. 

Our years at Mozilla demonstrated that values-driven development works at scale. We founded Orchestrate.Agency to apply that same ethos to AI governance.

The proposed Governance Layer is a technical and social mechanism for communities to turn their values into enforceable guardrails;the onus is on the technology providers to demonstrate that their systems can respect it.