Why Begin with a Manifesto Every system begins with assumptions. Most begin with features. SON begins with rights.Architecture follows ethics. Before we talk about layers, queries, or contracts, we must ask a prior question:What does a knowledge system owe to the people it touches?If that answer is vague, no amount of technical brilliance downstream can save it. If that answer is explicit, then every implementation can be judged — and audited — against it. The Problem We Face Today’s AI systems are technical MVPs: clever approximations of “learning” that scale quickly but lack rigor.They are built for fluency, not accountability. … Continue reading A Manifesto for Human Agency in Knowledge Systems