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What is the DAX Foundation?

The DAX Foundation is here for one big reason: to protect life, people and minds, and help them grow. We're working on three things. Meta DAX helps you learn, and it's the one we're building right now. Nova DAX is your own record of what you've learned. Skippy DAX is an AI companion of your own that works for you. And one simple rule sits under all of it, called the Constraint Protocol: whatever happens gets written down, someone owns it, and it's signed.

Where this goes

Learning, your record, your companion and that one rule all build on each other. Everyone who comes in starts a little further ahead than the person before.

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Picture a graph. Every circle is an entity: a person, a companion, a record, a learning platform. Every line between circles is a Constraint Protocol relation — the Protocol is what the lines are made of. It is not a part of the Foundation's purpose; it is the substance of every connection in the picture. Meta DAX is being built now: universal learning, one concept at a time for one person, for a whole life. Nova DAX is the record that stays yours. Skippy DAX is the companion that acts on your behalf. A citizen holds her own identity, her record and her companion. Reading level is how much of this picture you see.

Today, and where it goes

Today Meta DAX is live as an experiment. A guide answers a few questions about a learner and what she needs, and gets lessons and quizzes made for that person. The guide reads it first. Every helper action is recorded under the Constraint Protocol. The Foundation is open about what is built and what is still being tested.

The proof

The Constraint Protocol is published at daxfoundation.org. The definitions of DAX, the cognitive companion and human delta value are published there too. The 2024 prototype showed a guide answering questions and a course being made for one learner, quizzed and assessed.

Underneath

Every line in the graph is a Constraint Protocol relation: who acted, on what, under whose authority, recorded and signed. That is the substrate every interaction runs on. The Foundation holds the purpose and the protocol. Reading level is how much of this picture you see.