The open vocabulary
An open way to describe how your organisation works, so its AI can be governed in your terms.
The Triodian Metamodel is an open, schema-first way to describe what an organisation does and why: its strategy, capabilities, value streams, stakeholders and more. It is the shared vocabulary the governance layer uses to express the constraints an AI must stay inside.
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The documentation you already have
You already describe how your organisation works. It just can't be enforced.
Process maps, capability models, policy libraries, an operating model, most organisations have documented themselves at length, and that work is valuable. But it was written for people to read and interpret. None of it is in a form an AI acting on your behalf can be held to at the moment it acts. The Metamodel is the same description, expressed so it can carry a constraint all the way to enforcement, and checked by anyone, because the vocabulary is open.
The reference, online
Every domain, documented and versioned.
metamodel.triodian.com →
What it is
A live model of how a business works
It redefines business architecture from static documentation into a live, organisation-wide model of how a business functions and adapts, modelling not just what an organisation does, but why, how, for whom, and with what effect.
It is schema-first and JSON-based, so it integrates cleanly with data catalogs, metadata and governance tooling. Its domains run from strategy and capabilities through to customer, people, sustainability and intelligence, a common vocabulary an organisation, and the systems acting on its behalf, can share.
How it fits
Describe, govern, prove
The Metamodel describes how an organisation works; the UGP carries those limits to the point of action; the appliance enforces them and emits proof.
Describes
The open vocabulary for what an organisation does, and the limits it sets on the systems acting for it.
OpenGoverns
The open governance protocol that carries those limits to the point of action, so one substrate can serve sectors with different compliance vocabularies.
Open protocolProves
Enforces the declared constraints in hardware and emits tamper-evident proof at each consequential action.
Enforced & verifiableThe vocabulary and the protocol are open so anyone can read, adopt and check them. The enforcement that makes them trustworthy is the appliance’s hardware-rooted job, open where it should be open, enforced where it has to hold.
Open source
Read it, adopt it, check it.
The Metamodel is freely available under CC BY-SA 4.0, maintained in the open.