The Articles¶
The eight Constitutional Commitments encoded in the Articles of Association of Vetted Inference AB. Full legal text at infrastructure/legal/articles-of-association-draft-v0.md. Cross-referenced to the engineering enforcement at Charter to code.
I — Anti-sale¶
Vetted Inference cannot be sold, merged, or acquired in a manner that does not preserve the Articles. The Foundation Share's veto right (Articles § 6.1(b), (d)) blocks any such transaction. Any party acquiring shares must sign an Affirmation of Articles before share-register update; share-register updates without Affirmation are void ab initio (§ 6.2).
II — Dividend cap¶
Maximum 30% of distributable profit available for dividend (§ 5.1). 30% of the remainder accrues to the Foundation Reserve, the principal of which is retained perpetually and may not be distributed (§ 5.2(a)). The dividend cap and Foundation Reserve are not subject to retroactive amendment (§ 5.3).
III — No defence, no dual-use¶
Vetted Inference will not contract with, license to, or knowingly serve as sub-processor for entities whose principal use falls within EU dual-use Annex I (Regulation (EU) 2021/821), nor for surveillance directed at named individuals or groups distinguishable by ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, political opinion, or trade-union membership (§ 11©). Implemented through customer-onboarding screening; reviewed annually.
IV — Methodology publication duty¶
The methodology code and prose remain public under AGPL-3.0 or a successor copyleft license of substantially equivalent restrictiveness. All material changes are tagged, dated, and attributed. Closed-source methodology is grounds for Foundation veto-share intervention (§ 6.1(f), § 11(d)).
V — Zero retention default¶
Customer prompt and completion content is processed in transient memory and not persisted beyond 24 hours (§ 11(e)). Marketing-purpose retention is not permitted under any tier. Any retention beyond 24 hours requires named purpose, time bound, and per-customer opt-in.
VI — Revenue concentration cap¶
No single customer (or group of affiliated customers) may account for more than 25% of trailing-90-day revenue without the board having tabled and minuted a written mitigation plan at the next quarterly meeting (§ 11(f)).
VII — Locality of impact¶
Allocations from operational treasury to environmental restoration, ecological monitoring, or related impact projects default to within a 200km radius of compute regions used by paying customers in the relevant period. Exceptions require two-thirds board affirmative vote with public minute (§ 11(g)).
VIII — Quarterly governance vote¶
Paying members of Selma have a quarterly vote on substantive amendments to the consumer-product Constitution. Threshold for amendment: 60% of votes cast and 25% of eligible voters. Voting is open for not less than two weeks at the close of each calendar quarter, with not less than six weeks' prior notice of motions (§ 11(h)).
Status¶
The Articles are currently in founder draft v0, public, pre-counsel review. Counsel review and inaugural shareholder meeting target Q2 2026; Foundation Share transfer (the structural anchor of Article I) target Q3 2026 (VI-1208).
Until VI-1208 closes, the structural commitments above are in provisional force; the operational commitments are already enforced in code per ADR-0003.
Reading order¶
For a deeper read:
- The full Articles draft on GitHub
- Charter to code — engineering mapping
infrastructure/legal/precedents/— Sharetribe, Ecosia, Bosch reading notes- Sanders, A., & Neitzel, N. (2025). Steward Ownership. SSRN 5178366