I have designed decision systems from the inside, at Syngenta, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and BASF. The same gap kept showing up: between what the data said and what the organisation actually did. ChainAlign is the layer I always saw missing. I am building it now, from Basel, with early users from the industries I have worked in for decades.
The earlier work still sits underneath: network redesign, forecasting, digital twins, track and trace. Delivered across pharma and chemical enterprises.
Standards are not new ground for me. I worked with UNSPSC in the early 2000s, then with GS1 and EPCIS for years after, and chaired the agro-industry standards body that partnered with GS1. So when the newer work keeps hitting a layer that should exist and does not, the move is a familiar one: write the open standard first, then build the product on top. PIF and the Clearance Manifest are the two I am authoring now.
PIF: Preflight Interchange Format
An open specification (Apache 2.0; v0.1 current, v0.2 a draft) for the inputs and outputs of an AI-workflow preflight: whether a workflow is appropriate before it enters a regulated process, which controls are missing, and what a reviewer can sign. SBOM did this for software supply chains; PIF does it for AI preflight. It is the standard Preclari is built on.
Clearance Manifest: openclearance
An open standard for a portable, fail-closed rights-clearance artifact that travels with a creative work. It composes existing standards (Creative Commons, schema.org, W3C PROV, SHA-256, C2PA) rather than inventing new ones. It is the standard the open-museum engine emits.
And the products built on those standards, and alongside them.
ChainAlign
The decision intelligence system I am building. It is designed to recommend while people decide, and to keep a record of why each decision was made. Supply chain is one of its domains. Designed to support EU AI Act obligations.
Preclari
The AI-preflight layer I am building for regulated processes. It makes a decision’s reasoning explicit and checkable before the decision executes. Built on PIF, the open specification above, so the work outlives any single tool.
Open Museum.art
The human-facing open-access art platform. Search the world’s open collections directly, and soon order prints of public-domain works. Artists can list their own work for discovery and print-on-demand. Built on the open-museum-mcp engine and the Clearance Manifest standard.
open-museum-mcp
The open engine underneath: an MCP server that federates open-access museum collections (the Met, Cleveland, AIC, Wikimedia Commons, Europeana) behind one normalised API, with strict CC0 / PD rights verification and ready-to-paste citations. Used in my own essays.
AeroConnect CRM
Aviation relationship management.
