For institutions governing at scale
Governance is an architecture problem
Your institution’s constraints are scattered across legislation, policy documents, people’s heads, and meeting minutes nobody re-reads. A new initiative touches legal, comms, procurement, finance, and operations — and figuring out “who knows what” is the actual work. AI doesn’t fix this. It makes it faster and less visible. Constellation makes governance structural.
Four layers of institutional intelligence
Constellation is not a checklist tool or a compliance dashboard. It is a governance architecture with four distinct layers, each addressing a structural gap in how institutions coordinate.
Layer 1
Charter — Decisions, commitments, and authority
The institutional record. Every decision, commitment, and constraint is registered here — who decided, under what authority, what it binds. When an action crosses a boundary, the Charter layer surfaces which constraints apply, what authority is required, and who to escalate to.
Decisions, commitments, constraints (7 types), escalations, delegation rules, authority roles
Layer 2
Idealoom — Institutional knowledge graph
The institution’s knowledge, structured as a navigable graph. Concepts, relationships, and governance context that feeds into constraint checking, decision support, and institutional memory. Ingestion from documents, web sources, and manual curation.
Concepts, edges, properties, sources, bulk ingestion, search
Layer 3
Forum — Contestation and precedent
Governance without disagreement infrastructure is just compliance. The Forum lets any member formally challenge a decision or constraint. Challenges require standing and evidence. Adjudicators issue rulings. Rulings carry precedent weight that influences future decisions. This is common law inside a product.
Challenges, evidence, rulings, precedent, standing requirements, remedies
Layer 4
Observatory — External signal monitoring
The institutional environment shifts constantly — regulatory changes, AI capability advances, data privacy developments. The Observatory monitors RSS feeds across 9 domains, scores signals using embedding-based relevance, and detects drift from established baselines using statistical analysis.
9 domains: regulatory, governance, AI capability, finance, data privacy, cybersecurity, sustainability, philanthropy, research
Measured, not assumed
Governance Coordination Index (GCI)
Every check, escalation, decision, and constraint interaction generates data. Constellation computes a continuous governance score across five dimensions — so you can prove governance is working, not just hope it is.
Authority Clarity
Are authority boundaries clear enough that people rarely ask "who decides this?"
Escalation Efficiency
When issues need escalation, are they resolved quickly at the right level?
Documentation Proportionality
Is the right amount documented — enough to learn from, not so much it becomes overhead?
Coordination Velocity
Do decisions move from proposal to action without unnecessary delay?
Structural Stability
Does the governance framework hold steady under pressure, leadership changes, and crises?
Start with the self-assessment
The Governance Health Check measures these same five dimensions through 20 questions. Free, 5 minutes, no sign-up. See where your governance actually stands before committing to anything.
Take the health checkEnforcement at the moment of action
7 constraint types, enforced in real-time
Constraints are defined in advance through the Charter. When an action is taken — by an AI agent via MCP, a person through the web interface, or the API — the constraint engine evaluates it against all applicable rules simultaneously.
Constellation never blocks. It informs. The human always decides. But the decision is made with full institutional context, not from memory.
Multi-organisation governance
Isolated institutions, shared infrastructure
Each organisation gets isolated decision records, commitment registers, knowledge graphs, and constraint sets. A publishing commitment for one entity doesn’t bind another’s research agenda. A funding decision for one doesn’t imply endorsement from another.
What makes this different
Not compliance. Coordination.
Compliance tools check what happened after the fact. Constellation checks at the moment of action — before the commitment is made, before the email is sent, before the budget is exceeded.
Not surveillance. Institutional memory.
Constellation is constitutionally prohibited from ranking individuals, scoring compliance, or enabling trace-based discipline. Governance traces exist so the institution can learn, not so individuals can be punished.
Not advisory. Structural.
Constellation doesn’t advise, optimise, or decide. It enforces the institution’s own commitments at the moment they matter. The constraints are yours. The architecture is ours.
Built for disagreement.
Any constraint can be formally challenged through the Forum. Evidence submitted, rulings issued, precedents set. Governance isn’t top-down rules. It’s a living system that can be questioned and refined.
Pricing
Organisation
Up to 3 institutions, 50 members
Unlimited constraints & checks, SSO, shadow mode & delegation, advanced analytics, priority support
Enterprise
Unlimited institutions & members
Custom MCP integrations, audit export & compliance, SLA & uptime guarantee, dedicated support, on-premise option
No per-seat pricing. Governance shouldn’t penalise including more people. Start with the free health check to see where you stand.
See where your governance breaks down
Before you can fix coordination, you need to see it clearly. Start with the free health check, explore the demo organisation, or talk to us about your institutional needs.