EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Governance-native AI infrastructure for universities, research labs, and academic integrity
Constitutional RuntimeWho this is for
University administrators, research offices, IRB and ethics review boards, principal investigators, academic integrity officers, and grant compliance teams operating where AI use has scholarly, ethical, or funding consequence. If your institution reviews, funds, publishes, or credentials on the basis of AI-touched work, the governance surface must sit upstream of the model, not beside it.
- University research offices and vice-provosts for research
- IRB, IACUC, and research ethics review boards
- Academic integrity offices and dean-of-students teams
- Principal investigators and lab directors handling regulated data
- Grant compliance, sponsored programs, and effort reporting teams
- Library sciences, scholarly communication, and preprint stewardship
Capability surface
Constitutional runtime
The PRAXIS 7-Gate pipeline enforces governance on every AI action. It stops when unsure. Evidence is mandatory. Defaults deny rather than guess. Research workflows, IRB review, and academic integrity checks inherit this posture by construction, not by policy overlay.
Provenance and authorship
Every action, decision, and generation is recorded to a tamper-evident, SHA-256 hash-chained evidence store. Authorship attribution, contribution trace, and revision history remain valid when the underlying hardware changes. Preprint and thesis provenance is fully traceable from the moment each record is created.
IRB and ethics posture
Deterministic governance maps to Common Rule, GDPR research provisions, and institutional ethics policy. Sovereign on-premise deployment for teams handling PHI, PII, or export-controlled data. The evidence store and constitutional runtime run inside the boundary your IRB already trusts.
Academic integrity
A governance layer that distinguishes AI-assisted from AI-authored work by construction, not by detector heuristic. Institutional policy about permitted use becomes enforceable at the runtime layer. Investigations begin from evidence, not from suspicion.
Grant compliance
Evidence trails for effort reporting, data management plans, and responsible-conduct-of-research obligations. NIH, NSF, and equivalent sponsor requirements map to deterministic governance controls the runtime enforces, not to manual attestation.
Architecture for advanced autonomy
Designed for a world where AGI-class and ASI-class systems exist. Bounded autonomy, separation of duties, and human-sovereign gates on all consequential actions. ETHRAEON does not claim to be AGI or ASI; it governs systems that may become so.
Research surface
ETHRAEON publishes its own research surface at papers.ethraeon.ai, running the same constitutional runtime and evidence store it offers to institutions. Papers are versioned, hash-anchored, and provenance-traced by construction.
Institutional engagements begin from a shared architectural frame: what the runtime does, what it does not do, where sovereign human authority remains non-delegable, and how the evidence layer survives model or vendor replacement.
Mapped ETHRAEON products
The operational problem for a university research and integrity function is proving, under sponsor audit and ethics review, that AI-assisted research and integrity records were governed: that the obligations which bound them were identified and mapped to policy and control, and that enforcement state is observable for the research office and the review board. A governed-decision product and its observability layer run as one workflow over a replayable substrate. The concrete deliverable is a governed-records provenance pack: a replayable obligation-to-control map plus a live enforcement-state view across the research and integrity records.
Compliance Engine
Live runtime, available by subscription. For a university research and integrity function it captures the Common Rule, GDPR research-provision, export-control, and institutional-ethics-policy obligations that bind an research and integrity record determination and maps each to firm policy and control, holding the research and integrity record determination itself separate from the evidence. It records the obligation, the obligation-to-policy-to-control mapping, and each evidence linkage through the governed runtime; every evidence linkage returns a SHA-256 evidence node. It organizes obligations, mappings, and evidence and never issues, claims, or implies certification. Sign-off remains a human authority act.
Governance Dashboard
Live runtime, available by subscription. For a university research and integrity function it surfaces live enforcement state across research, IRB, and academic-integrity workflows for sponsor audit and ethics review readiness. It is the composition and observability layer over the governed-decision products: a live constitutional-rule enforcement panel, per-model and per-agent policy-state visibility, a preventative halt log with rationale, per-tenant rule scoping, and a read-only board or audit-committee view, white-label on request. It reads governed-runtime state and never overrides a constitutional or authority boundary.
TRACELET 1.1 with Evidence Graph
Operational core orchestration. For the education workflow it is the replayable substrate under the obligation-to-control map and the enforcement-state view. It emits and verifies Evidence Graph (EDG) nodes, binding the governed records into one hash-chained trace that survives substrate replacement and reaches sponsor audit and ethics review as one authoritative record.
Deliverable: a governed-records provenance pack: a replayable obligation-to-control map plus a live enforcement-state view across research, IRB, and academic-integrity records. It maps against Common Rule research obligations, GDPR research provisions, and export-control handling where applicable, SOC 2 self-certified and ISO 42001 readiness-mapped, and is produced by the governed runtime at the moment of the decision, not reconstructed under review pressure afterward.
The scholarly determination, the ethics finding, and the integrity decision remains with the research office and the review board; the runtime governs and evidences the AI-action layer and produces the provenance pack, not the research and integrity record decision itself.
Proof surface
ETHRAEON runs its own operations under constitutional governance. 300 plus production surfaces, 700 plus governance directives executed and evidenced, a hash-chained evidence store, a published research surface, and a portfolio posture that reports honestly rather than aspirationally. The infrastructure is the demonstration.
Engagement
Institutional engagements start with a governance briefing scoped to your research portfolio, jurisdictional posture, and regulated-data boundary. The briefing produces a written architecture assessment and a deployment path proposal. From there: pilot, evidenced production deployment, or sovereign on-premise install. Where sovereign external acts are required, human authority remains non-delegable.
Portfolio anchors
ETHRAEON is a constitutional runtime and evidence control layer. Portfolio posture: 16 filed U.S. provisional applications / 75 technical specifications / 9 families. Public claims are calibrated. AGI-class and ASI-class positioning is architectural, not an achievement claim.