The Cognitive Enterprise Project
The Constitution

Article I

Freedom

Cognition is a capability the enterprise owns, not a service it rents. An organization that cannot think without permission is not free; it is dependent. The first principle of the Cognitive Enterprise is that the capacity for judgment must reside within the institution itself.

Freedom does not mean isolation. It means that the models, memory, and reasoning that constitute organizational cognition remain under the organization’s control — portable, inspectable, and durable across vendors and time.

Clauses

  1. §1An organization retains the right to reason independently of any single provider.
  2. §2Cognitive capability must be portable and survive the departure of any vendor.
  3. §3No dependency shall be created that cannot be exited without loss of memory.