The Verification Charter.
The rules Tektari's verification line operates under. Published so you can hold us to them. Every rule below is checkable from the outside — that is the point.
what this covers
This charter binds everything sold under Tektari's verification line: the Industrial AI Scoreboard, the Problem-Definition Audit, and any verification offer we add later. It applies from first contact through final deliverable.
The charter is versioned. Any change gets a new version number, a date, and a plain note on this page. There are no quiet edits.
the commitments
We sell no implementation.
The verification line never builds, configures, resells, or takes delivery work on anything it assesses. If our assessment says a pilot is worth running, we are not the ones who get paid to run it. The diagnosis is the whole product.
We take no vendor money.
No commissions, referral fees, reseller margins, or paid placement — from any AI vendor, integrator, or platform. Vendor names appear in our work only where the evidence puts them.
Verification fees never credit toward anything.
A verification fee is never a down payment on another Tektari offer. No rollovers, no bundles, no "audit credits toward the program." An assessment bought under this charter carries no incentive for us to find you a bigger problem.
Prices are published.
Verification prices live on the site, not in a proposal. The Industrial AI Scoreboard is free. The Problem-Definition Audit is $12,500 fixed: $10,000 at kickoff, and the final $2,500 invoiced only when the scoped pilot passes its pre-agreed acceptance test — never invoiced if the pilot never runs. The pilot assessment of a completed pilot (scale / fix / kill) is deferred — not currently offered — and is listed at $18,000 so the price is on record before the first sale.
Assessments are issued against the published protocol.
Every deliverable states what was assessed, how, and against which baseline — under a written protocol published before the engagement starts. Acceptance tests are written so your own team can run and verify them without us, on your own data. Part of our fee rides on that test.
what this charter does not cover
- — The coaching & enablement line. The Executive Sparring Program, the Business AI Transformation Program, the Operators’ AI Council, cohorts, membership, and self-serve courses are sold and priced separately. That line has one disclosed conversion mechanic — Sparring fees credit toward a Program signed within 90 days — and it never touches the verification line.
- — Your outcomes. We verify problem definitions, baseline metrics, and acceptance tests. We do not underwrite your P&L. A pilot that passes its acceptance test can still be a pilot you choose not to scale — that decision, and its results, are yours.
- — Professional advice. Verification deliverables are assessments against the published protocol. They are not legal, financial, accounting, or engineering advice, and they do not replace the sign-offs your own experts owe you.
- — Guarantees of vendor behavior. An acceptance test tells you whether a vendor's system did what was agreed, on your data, at one point in time. It does not warrant the vendor, the product, or its future performance.
versioning
v1.0 · effective 2026-07-02 · first public issue
changes to this charter are explicit, dated founder decisions — logged here, never drift
questions or a claim we've breached it: hello@tektari.com — we answer with evidence