Initiative
The Aedifice Charter.
The principles our agents are built to honor, and the practices our humans are bound to follow.
The premise
Charter principles
- 01
Licensed humans carry legal responsibility.
A licensed architect, engineer, property manager, or compliance counsel carries the legal responsibility for the work performed on a building. Wren drafts, monitors, and prepares; the seal belongs to the licensed human. Nothing is filed, submitted, or attested to without a named person standing behind it.
- 02
Every draft routes to review.
No output produced by Wren reaches a regulator, a client, or a building record without passing through review by the responsible professional. Review is not a dialog box. It is a recorded act, captured alongside the draft it approved, and kept in the building’s record for the life of the work.
- 03
The building’s record is the primary artifact.
What Wren produces is held for the building, not for the firm currently engaged on it. The record outlives the engagement. When the owner sells, the manager moves on, or the engineer retires, the building’s record persists and the reasoning behind every decision persists with it.
- 04
Reasoning and citations travel with every output.
Each draft Wren produces carries the reasoning that led to it and the citations to the filings, codes, and prior conditions it relied on. A reviewer can inspect the chain of work without rebuilding it. An output that cannot be explained is an output we will not ship.
- 05
Jurisdictional knowledge stays in the jurisdiction.
Codes, filings, and professional norms vary meaningfully across jurisdictions. Wren does not generalize from one jurisdiction to another. A rule learned in New York is not quietly applied in London. Each jurisdiction carries its own modeled rules, its own review partners, and its own record of what has and has not been verified.
- 06
We disclose where agents are used.
When an output was drafted with agent assistance, the record says so. Clients, regulators, and successor professionals can see where Wren participated, what it proposed, and which licensed human approved the result. Silence about the agent’s role is not a neutral position.
- 07
We refuse work that cannot be reviewed.
If a workflow cannot be reviewed by a responsible human in time to matter, Aedifice does not build it and Wren does not perform it. Speed that outruns review is not a feature. The ceiling on what Wren does is set by what a licensed professional can actually inspect and stand behind.
Revision
The charter is revised on a published cadence, with each version archived and linked from this page. Material changes are announced to active clients before they take effect. The principles are not claimed to be final; they are claimed to be honest about where we stand today and how we intend to operate while that remains true.
Comments, objections, and proposed amendments from the professionals who use Wren are read, logged, and considered at each revision. Write to charter@aedificeai.com.
Work the charter requires.
If the principles above describe how you already practice, Aedifice is built for the way you already work.