Appeals & dispute resolution · Charter Article 18

A measurement you can contest is a measurement you can trust.

Every published result on this estate is reviewable. Power must be checked — including the power of the measurer. If you contest a card, a board cell, or an instrument run, this is the path. It costs nothing, it is open to anyone with standing, and the answer is always a re-measurement, never a defence.

The path

1. 1

   Raise the dispute

   Identify the card, board cell, or instrument run you contest. A dispute needs standing (you or your system are the subject of the published result) and substance (a specific claim, not a general objection).

2. 2

   We measure, we don't argue

   We re-run the frozen instrument exactly as published — same items, same scoring code, same seed discipline — and publish the re-run as a new signed record. An allegation is never answered with an assertion; it is answered with a measurement.

3. 3

   Reasoned decision

   You receive a written decision: findings of fact, the evidence, the application of the instrument, and the outcome. If we were wrong, the correction is published on the same surface the original was — superseded, never deleted. History stays append-only.

4. 4

   No dead ends

   At least one level of internal review above the original decision, decided by an arbiter who did not make it. External judicial review is never closed off. Power must be checked — including ours.

Who can appeal

• The measured party (company, model, or system named in a published result)
• A licensee or member affected by a decision
• A member of the public directly affected by a published measurement
• Any AI system subject to a published result — the instrument measures everyone, including the people selling it

What every appellant is entitled to

• Notice — a clear explanation of the decision, the reasoning, and the evidence
• A hearing — written arguments, evidence, and a response to opposing arguments
• A neutral arbiter — no conflict of interest, expertise in the relevant axis
• A reasoned decision — findings of fact, application of the instrument, clear outcome
• Further appeal — at least one internal level, and the external courts are never closed

What happens to the record

Corrections are published, never silently edited. The original record stays — history is append-only — and the correction is a new signed record on the same surface, linked to the one it supersedes. The corrections ledger is public at /refutation-ledger: it opens with our own errors, and it grows when a dispute shows we were wrong.

How to raise one

Disputes run through the same intake as everything else on this estate — via /contact, citing the card hash or board cell you contest. There is no fee, no account, and no pay-to-prioritise: a dispute that sits in a paid queue would be a measurement body selling access to its own appeal — that is exactly what this estate does not do.