AI Trust Record

One AI system, four possible answers, ten working days.

Make a documented decision about an AI system, with evidence and clear responsibilities.

€4,500 net · one-time

Ten working days from receipt of the start inputs.

Original sample page · Scenario

What you receive

A signed decision on one AI system, with the ETHORITY AI Trust Chain, a register of facts and open points, and a 90-day trigger list.

The AI system the decision is about (if you can name it), the person who will make the decision and the documents you already have. For a system already in use, ETHORITY works from approved exports, interviews, checks it prepares for your team to run, or access limited to the review – whichever you prefer. ETHORITY records missing information as open and assesses what it means for the decision.

The ETHORITY Promise

We make the value clear. We take responsibility for our delivery. We make results transparent.

A specific expected outcome, with its basis and assumptions.
Defined deliverables, price, timing and acceptance criteria.
Supporting evidence, accountable ownership and measurement where included.

You receive a clear recommendation, an agreed delivery commitment and transparent results. We explain the value you can expect, the basis for that assessment and what ETHORITY takes responsibility for.

Expected value: You make a clear, reasoned decision on one AI system – pilot, redesign, expand or stop – and you know who is accountable for outcome, data and approval.
Your deliverable: A signed decision with the ETHORITY AI Trust Chain, a register of facts and open points, and the triggers that reopen the decision within 90 days.
Responsibility: ETHORITY reviews the documents and evidence for the named system in the standard scope and states the conditions under which the decision holds.
Evidence: Every statement is tied to its source; open points are listed in the register with what each means for the decision.
Price: standard scope €4,500 plus VAT, one-time
Delivery: ten working days from receipt of the start inputs

The value receipt runs through the whole assignment: the expected value before you order, then the agreed commitment, and the proof on delivery.

Scenario figures are assumed; your own figures are established in your assignment.

Scope, responsibilities and evidence

4: possible decisions: pilot, redesign, expand or stopOffer terms →
7: links in the ETHORITY AI Trust Chain, from outcome to reviewOffer terms →
90: days of review triggers after deliveryOffer terms →

Your decision at a glance

You receive: A signed decision on one AI system, with the ETHORITY AI Trust Chain, a register of facts and open points, and a 90-day trigger list.
Price: €4,500 net · one-time
Delivery: Ten working days from receipt of the start inputs.
What we need from you to get started: The AI system the decision is about (if you can name it), the person who will make the decision and the documents you already have. For a system already in use, ETHORITY works from approved exports, interviews, checks it prepares for your team to run, or access limited to the review – whichever you prefer. ETHORITY records missing information as open and assesses what it means for the decision.
Next step: Request a Trust Record in a 30-minute call.

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What ETHORITY delivers

A signed decision with its conditions
The ETHORITY AI Trust Chain
A register of facts and open points
A 90-day trigger list

What we need from you to get started

The AI system the decision is about (if you can name it), the person who will make the decision and the documents you already have. For a system already in use, ETHORITY works from approved exports, interviews, checks it prepares for your team to run, or access limited to the review – whichever you prefer. ETHORITY records missing information as open and assesses what it means for the decision.

Don’t know something yet? Say so. ETHORITY clarifies it with you as part of the work.

Your decision

Pilot, redesign, expand or stop
Who owns each condition

Work starts after confirmed payment and receipt of the start inputs; within the agreed scope, ETHORITY gathers everything else.

One clear decision on one AI system: pilot, redesign, expand or stop.
The ETHORITY AI Trust Chain shows who answers for outcome, data and approval.
A 90-day trigger list names the events that reopen the decision.

What you receive

The Trust Record with the decision: pilot, redesign, expand or stop, and the conditions for each.
A visual ETHORITY AI Trust Chain linking outcome, owner, data, AI component, human authority, evidence and required review.
A register of facts, evidence, assumptions and open points.
An owner and authority map.
Decision conditions and a short next-step and review plan with a 90-day trigger list.

Who it is for

A business owner about to extend an AI system to customers or colleagues, or to spend more on it. Typical cases: a vendor agent in customer service, an assistant connected to internal documents, an AI step inside an HR or finance process. For a whole portfolio rather than one system, see the AI Estate Audit.

The question it answers

Can we use this AI system for this purpose, with clear responsibility, adequate evidence, known limits and an agreed review path?

How it works

1
Scope Scope and acceptance agreed; you name one system, one accountable owner and one operational contact.
2
Intake Context session; you share the material you have. Missing information is recorded as an open point, so you can start without complete documentation.
3
Review ETHORITY researches provider, model, product and public evidence independently and reviews purpose, boundaries, data, dependencies, authority and review triggers.
4
Decide ETHORITY builds the Trust Record, holds the decision session with you and hands over the 90-day review trigger list.

Packages and price

Standard scope

€4,500 net · one-time

One named system or AI-enabled process and two working sessions.

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Complex scope

Price by proposal

Several providers, sensitive data or material customer impact; quoted separately after scoping.

Complex scope: request a proposal; no fixed-price checkout

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Terms

Net. Work starts after confirmed payment and receipt of the start inputs; within the agreed scope, ETHORITY gathers everything else. Delivery takes ten working days from receipt of the start inputs.

Boundary

An independent decision on one system, with its evidence and conditions, signed by a named person. Legal opinions, security testing and implementation are scoped with specialists.

Who is accountable for the result

Sten Franke

Founder & CEO · AI Transformation Architect

Sten Franke designs and builds AI systems, from model testing and cloud setup to the interfaces people use. He connects business decisions, software architecture and practical implementation.

AI architecture · Model testing · Cloud engineering · UX

His work spans programming, LLM evaluation, Google Cloud and AWS environments, and web applications built with Next.js and React. He connects business requirements, software architecture and practical implementation. Creator of the Good AI Prism, he brings market intelligence into AI decisions. Earlier, he created the Social Media Prisma, led a BVDW Social Media working group and contributed to its Social Media Kompass. His entrepreneurial work includes ethority, Gridpatrol and mediatime, following a practical foundation in electronics and industrial robotics.

sten@ethority.ai

Sten Franke frames the assignment, interprets the findings and signs off on the final recommendations.

Read before you decide

The Record labels every claim. Read why a marketplace listing is not trust.

Check every vendor claim before you rely on it.

Tie every vendor claim to the exact product, version, contract and use before you rely on it.

See the map on one page →

A marketplace listing does not make an AI agent trustworthy.

When you buy AI agents, keep identity, offer, payment, evidence and trust apart, and grant rights only after purchase.

See the map on one page →

A list of AI agents does not control them.

What controls AI agents in daily operation: clear rights, a record of how well each fact is supported, checks matched to the risk, data limits and alerts when something changes.

See the map on one page →

Want a preview?

Our examples and calculators show how we assess value and assumptions. Using them is optional. For your assignment, ETHORITY does the preparation and the assessment.

Below, Capacity Conversion shows what AI-drafted contract summaries are worth once review time is counted; the EU AI Act Navigator gives an indicative risk class before the Record starts. All tools sit in the ETHORITY AI calculator suite.

EU AI Act Navigator

Seven questions give an indicative risk class, your duties, the dates and the missing evidence, ready to take to your lawyer.

Pilot version · Scenario calculator

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Total Cost of AI Ownership calculator

All six cost blocks over 36 months, compared with today's cost per accepted result, and the month the investment pays back.

Pilot version · Scenario calculator

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Compare three offerings

Puts two to four offerings side by side in the same units, each fact with its source and the date it was checked.

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Questions buyers ask

Do we need complete documentation?

Start with what you have: missing information is recorded as an open point and becomes part of the decision conditions.

What counts as complex scope?

Several providers, sensitive data or material customer impact. It is quoted separately after scoping.

How does the Record differ from a certificate?

It is a decision with its evidence and conditions, signed by a named person and tied to a 90-day review trigger list.

What comes after a "pilot" decision?

The AI Trust Pilot uses the Record as its starting structure.

Which systems qualify?

Any named AI system or AI-enabled process you use or plan to use, from a vendor tool in the ETHORITY Registry to an in-house agent.

ETHORITY · LONG READ

Before you depend on an AI system, write down why you trust it.

Most AI systems are approved on a demo and a contract. When something changes, nobody can say what the decision rested on.

An AI system you depend on deserves a written decision: when something changes, you see at once what it rested on.

Companies rarely decide to trust an AI system. They drift into it. A vendor agent handles more customer questions each month; an assistant gets connected to another folder; an HR tool adds a scoring feature with an update. At each step, someone could have asked whether the original reasons still hold. Usually nobody did, because the reasons were never written down.

The AI Trust Record writes them down for one named system. It asks a single question: can we use this system for this purpose, with clear responsibility, adequate evidence, known limits and an agreed review path? The answer is one of four decisions, pilot, redesign, expand or stop, each with its conditions.

The core of the Record is the ETHORITY AI Trust Chain. It links the outcome the system should deliver to the accountable owner, the data it uses, the AI component, the human authority over it, the evidence for each claim and the review that is due. When one link is weak, the chain shows where. That is more useful than a score, because it points to what to fix.

Evidence is handled the way the insight on vendor claims recommends: provider statements stay provider statements, and ETHORITY's research on the provider, model and product is kept separate from your internal material. Work starts with the documents you have. Missing ones become open points and, where they matter, decision conditions.

The Record ends with a 90-day list of review triggers: a vendor term change, a new data source, a new user group. When one of them happens, the decision reopens with its history intact. That is what lets a business owner extend a system with confidence rather than by drift.

Sources and further reading