WHERE THE PROJECT STANDS
Where everything stands today.
The specification, the decision history, the test results, and the open questions are all published. No one
can receive a Conduct Quotient yet.
TODAY
Seven built. Eight to go.
What exists
- A version 0.5 working specification
- A decision and open-question record
- An adversarial audit and repair history
- Twelve suites of synthetic structural testing, run against language models rather than people
- Public protections and prohibited uses
- A distributed-integrity direction that does not require blockchain
- Consumer and standards site prototypes
What still needs building
- Consumer scores, profiles, credentials, wallets, or accounts
- Live worker responses or customer records
- Partners, members, pilots, benefits, or certified implementations
- An operating Open Conduct Alliance
- Production formulas, thresholds, or context maps
- An appeals office, audit program, certification program, or report product
- A structured abuse-case and adversarial review track
- Endorsement by any named company or institution
THREE HORIZONS
Three stages, and each one gates the next.
NOW
Publish and challenge
Explain the proposal, publish its protections and decisions, and find out which parts people understand
and which parts they reject.
NEXT
Test the unknowns
Run comprehension and measurement research, legal and cultural review, accessible prototypes, and
implementation discovery for one bounded context.
LATER
Operate only what survives
A pilot would require a real context, independent evaluation, funded rights and remedies, worker
protection, security, privacy, legal review, and a responsible stop path.
STEWARDSHIP TODAY
Who runs this today.
Brent Turner writes and
maintains the proposal from Massachusetts, publishes the record, runs synthetic analysis, and reviews
contributions. He works on customer and brand experience as part of the executive team at Opus Agency, and
publishes The New New, where this proposal first appeared. The
project holds no customer scores and no identity-linked histories, and he speaks for no institution.
For questions about the proposal, including from journalists and researchers: contact@openconduct.org. There is no press office. Replies come
from one person, in batches.
THE FUTURE ALLIANCE
The Alliance still needs forming.
A future alliance would need meaningful power for consumers, workers, businesses, researchers, technical
experts, and public-interest participants. It would need a legal form, charter, funding, staff, contracts,
independence, and operating capacity for every role it accepts.
No founder, sponsor, platform, vendor, or early supporter should be able to convert money or implementation
resources into permanent control, weaker protections, favorable findings, certification, or access to
personal histories.
BEFORE A LIVE PILOT
Eleven things a pilot needs.
- A specific partner context and a genuinely additional benefit
- Validated NCS, VCI, and CQ comprehension for that context
- A validated minimum evidence threshold, since no score may display without one
- A validated minimum number of eligible responders per location, since capture is not permitted without one
- A published reliability estimate for the response model, and a specified transform between the NCS and
synthesis scales
- Consumer and worker rights, correction, appeal, and remedy operations
- Independent evaluation with authority to publish unfavorable findings
- Privacy, security, accessibility, legal, and cultural review
- Clear separation of governance, operation, evaluation, and business use
- A funded pause, correction, notification, and stop mechanism
- A completed abuse-case review, written by people who did not design this, covering how a bad actor inside a participating business would misuse it
WHAT GATES THE NEXT STAGE
Three conditions stand between publication and a pilot.
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Three of the six stop conditions are currently triggered, which gates progression from publication toward a
pilot. The assessment against all six names which, and
who decided.