Institutional Foundation
Built on three institutional pillars.
decision.forum is not a startup. It is the product of a legal technology company, an open-source trust infrastructure, and a published governance methodology. Each pillar is independently auditable.
Parent Company
LegalDyne
LegalDyne is a legal technology company operating litigation support and governance platforms. decision.forum is its flagship governance product — purpose-built for the intersection of institutional decision-making, AI governance, and evidentiary standards.
LegalDyne's platform infrastructure is built on EXOCHAIN and governed by AI-SDLC Institute standards. This institutional foundation is not incidental — it is the basis for the legal admissibility posture that distinguishes decision.forum from every alternative.
Trust Substrate
EXOCHAIN Foundation
EXOCHAIN is a DAG-based event-sourced trust substrate with Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus and deterministic finality. It was designed for legal and evidentiary use cases where immutability must be architectural, not policy-based.
The core design principle: no administrative override mechanism exists. The architecture enforces its own constitutional rules cryptographically. This means decision.forum cannot alter a finalized Decision Record — even if compelled to by a court order, because the technical mechanism to do so does not exist.
EXOCHAIN is open source. The codebase is publicly auditable. External security audits are published. PII and PHI never touch the ledger. Identity attestation is handled through cryptographic proofs — not stored data.
Governance Standards
AI-SDLC Institute
The AI-SDLC Institute develops and publishes the Standard Operating Procedures that govern every Decision Forum session. 40+ SOPs define the methodology for AI model panel composition, deliberation round structure, Adversarial Review protocol, Minority Report preservation, and Evidence Bundle generation.
The methodology is not proprietary. It is published on GitHub and auditable by any party — clients, opposing counsel, regulators, or independent researchers. This transparency is deliberate: a governance methodology that cannot be audited cannot be defended.
The AI-IRB governance structure applies the three-branch model to AI decision governance: AI-IRB (legislative), Holons (executive), CGR Kernel (judicial). Each function is structurally independent.
Leadership
Robert Stewart
Robert Stewart
Founder & Executive Director, AI-SDLC Institute • Principal, LegalDyne
Robert Stewart is a fractional CTO, governance architect, and the Executive Director of the AI-SDLC Institute. He has spent more than two decades at the intersection of technology architecture, legal systems, and institutional governance.
He created decision.forum in response to a specific gap: the absence of any institutional mechanism that could produce forensic-grade evidence of informed board deliberation. The platform is the practical application of the AI-IRB methodology he developed and published through the AI-SDLC Institute.
His view: governance tools that cannot themselves be audited have no place in fiduciary decision-making. Every element of decision.forum — the process, the infrastructure, the methodology — is designed to survive the scrutiny it is meant to enable.
Evaluate the infrastructure yourself.
EXOCHAIN is open source. AI-SDLC Institute SOPs are published. The methodology is auditable before you commit.