Manifesting the Future

The future is inviting us to build.

The Covenant exists to manifest a future where human well-being is more than an aspiration, but an outcome.

Today’s digital world rewards what is loud, fast, and urgent. This has transformed how we work, how we relate to one another, and how we understand ourselves. Often, at the expense of coherence, dignity, and long-term thinking. In a landscape full of noise, it is more important than ever to help value emerge.

The Covenant is a response to this condition. It is a design framework, a community, and an ecosystem for turning fragmentation into signal and abstract theory into tangible action. Scientists, artists, founders, engineers, and researchers gather here to ask a shared question: how do we build technology that remains accountable to human life as it accelerates?

The answer, for us, is an ecosystem where humans can create and curate for one another.

What Is an Artifact?

Artifacts are the core building blocks of The Covenant ecosystem. Artifacts are reviewed by curators through a careful and rigorous evaluation process to ensure alignment with The Covenant principles and curation standards.

An Artifact is a concrete contribution to human-aligned technology or culture. It can take many forms: research, writing, design, software, hardware, experiments, governance frameworks, or creative practice. However, an artifact must do one thing consistently: make the principles of The Covenant tangible through real projects.

Each Artifact reflects unique human agency & effort, and is anchored in the principles of The Covenant. They give the community something real to gather around.

Submitting an Artifact is optional. You can verify your humanity and participate fully in The Covenant without submitting anything at all. Artifacts exist for those prepared to contribute work that can withstand a high standard of scrutiny. You must have full intellectual property rights to the submission you're making.

Because reviews are conducted thoughtfully and in batches, approval timelines can vary. Be mindful that approvals are not guaranteed; whether or not an artifact is curated depends on the curation process.

What Is Curation?

Curation is The Covenant’s highest form of recognition. It is the mechanism by which human judgment (not algorithms) determines what is amplified. It is a deliberately selective process, where only a small fraction of submissions are approved, in service of uncovering rare contributions that genuinely enrich the HUMN ecosystem’s value.

When an Artifact is curated, it signals that the work has met a bar of originality, rigor, clarity, and alignment. It is an acknowledgement that the artifact meaningfully advances human-aligned technology or understanding.

Community members whose Artifacts are curated receive more than visibility. They have the potential to gain access to:

• $HUMN grants to continue or expand the work

• Mentorship from experts across disciplines

• A stronger voice in governance, shaping how the ecosystem evolves

How Curation Happens

Artifacts are reviewed by curators. Curators are nominated from the community, or members who have been curated and wish to serve as curators. Curator cohorts rotate by season, by design. This keeps governance alive rather than static.

Curators are trusted not because they are loud or authoritative, but because they demonstrate an ability to listen for coherence in complex systems: to recognize work that will outlast trends and contribute durable value. Curators are typically experts in their field: governance, founders, scientists, activists, and artists.

As curators rotate out, their discernment does not disappear. It becomes embedded in The Covenant’s evaluation standards, funding decisions, and long-term governance architecture.

Reviews are conducted thoughtfully and in batches. This is a deliberative process, not a rapid approval cycle. Timelines vary based on submission volume and the depth of evaluation required. This typically ranges from a few weeks to up to three months. Patience here is part of the design.

What Makes a Strong Artifact

Each person may submit one Artifact at this time.

Because there is no advantage to submitting early, we strongly encourage taking time to get acquainted with The Covenant before submitting. Since curation is a selective process, it is important to create something that reflects genuine effort, understanding, and care.

A strong Artifact:

• Aligns clearly with The Covenant principles

• Demonstrates real understanding of its domain

• Contributes something genuinely useful to human-aligned technology or culture

• Is legible in its intent, even if technically complex

• Has a realistic path to long-term impact within The Covenant ecosystem

The submitter must own the intellectual property (or have permission from all contributors), and the work must be released under an open-source license that allows The Covenant to build on it.

Artifacts are evaluated against clear criteria: originality, human rigor, alignment, and clarity of intent.

Work that is recycled, primarily AI-generated, incomplete, misaligned, self-promotional, or unclear in purpose is unlikely to be approved.

Artifacts may be disqualified if they are:

• Misaligned with or contradictory to The Covenant principles

• Obvious generic AI output or show misunderstanding of one’s own work

• Harmful, misleading, or irrelevant

• Unreadable or incomprehensible

Examples of Curated Artifacts

Please see the Featured page for examples of what has been curated. Please note the submission type - all artifacts have a visual, but may also contain supplemental materials like essays or links to websites.

Open Source for Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring

A formidable biosensing challenge approached with rare ambition and care. Beyond technical difficulty, this project advances open data and hardware pipelines in favor of individuals - not corporate entrenchment. As biosensing and BCI technologies accelerate, infrastructure like this protects human agency. (And yes: custom FNIR sensors built from scratch.) See artifact

The Agentic Internet

A bold reimagining of the web, where documents become AI agents that reason, track evidence, publish confidence scores, and update claims over time. A serious attempt to rebuild shared truth online through accountability rather than virality. See artifact

Votar

A precise example of using the right tools for the right problem. By combining zero-knowledge proofs with WhatsApp delivery, Votar makes voting as easy as sending a message by reducing friction while restoring trust through cryptographic certainty. Already moving toward real-world deployment. See artifact

Adaptive Empathetic Intelligence: UNMASK

An exploration of empathy as a human right in an increasingly digital world. By imagining secure, open pipelines for behavioral data that benefit individuals rather than surveillance systems, this work reframes how technology could support connection rather than erode it. See artifact

An Invitation

The Covenant, artifact creation, and the curation process are optimized for meaning.

If you choose to submit an Artifact, do so with care. Take the time to understand the principles, the ecosystem, and the responsibility that comes with contributing something others may build upon.

Regardless of whether or not you are ready to submit an Artifact, you still belong here.

Join the community at manifest.human.tech.