Governance and transparency

The Institute is being established to be governed by a board, not by one person. That distinction is the whole point of standing up a separate organization: it is meant to answer to a group with a duty to the mission, rather than to any single founder.

Before it seeks formal recognition, the Institute intends to seat a board with a genuinely independent majority: directors who hold no financial stake in Kensora the company and no relationship to the founder that would impair their independence. An independent majority is what lets the board make decisions the company would not be able to grade itself on.

This is stated as intent. No board is seated yet, and the structure described here is being developed before the Institute seeks recognition.

The Institute shares a name with Kensora the company, and the two will have dealings with each other. The policy being adopted treats every one of those dealings as a related-party matter, handled in the open rather than quietly.

Any transaction between the Institute and Kensora the company, or the company's founder, is to be handled by:

• Full disclosure of the interest, in writing, before any decision.
• Recusal of the conflicted person from the vote.
• Approval by a disinterested majority of the board, on the record, on a fair-market, arm's-length basis.

The policy also calls for an annual conflict-of-interest disclosure from every director and officer, with conflicts logged and reviewed. This is the policy the Institute is adopting as it forms, not a description of decisions already made.

Kensora the company builds the product. The Institute is being established to do independent, open research that does not depend on taking the company's word. Those are two different jobs, and naming the relationship between them plainly is itself the point of this page.

The Institute uses the “Kensora” name under a royalty-free, non-exclusive, revocable license from Kensora, Inc., which owns the mark. The Institute uses the name only for its own non-commercial, public-good work; it cannot use the mark commercially, and the company keeps ownership of it.

A shared name can look like a shared agenda. It is not meant to be one. The license is structured so the company supports the Institute's use of the name rather than the Institute paying an insider for it, and any decision about that arrangement runs through the conflict-of-interest process above, with the conflicted person recused.

The Institute was incorporated in Arkansas on July 6, 2026. It is not yet federally tax-exempt, it holds no funds, and it solicits none here.

When it operates, it intends to report its work and its finances openly, so that anyone can see what it does and how it is supported. Until then, this page is an account of intent, and the honest status is simply that the organization is still being built.