Decisions about the model belong to the community — not a company
Lattice Na'at is an open source project. Governance defines who makes the decisions, how they are made, and how accountability is ensured. No technical decision can bypass this framework.
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Governance bodies
Coordination, Council, Panel, Community
2/3
Qualified majority
For substantive changes
30 days
Minimum public debate
Before any amendment
CC0 1.0
License
Creative Commons — no restrictions
The four governance bodies
Sintérgica AI can propose, but the community approves. Substantive changes to the model require a participatory process.
Central Coordination
Sintérgica AI team (Sintérgica Labs)
Technical development, maintenance, project operational coordination, version releases.
Community Council
Active contributors, independent researchers, and collaborating organizations.
Review and approval of substantive changes to the Constitution and governance policies. Voting on high-impact decisions.
Independent Evaluation Panel
External researchers unaffiliated with Sintérgica AI, with expertise in AI, ethics, linguistics, or law.
Independent audit of model behavior. WEIRD bias evaluations. Publication of findings.
Open Community
Any person or entity that contributes code, data, evaluations, or feedback.
Incident reporting, improvement proposals, evaluations, model use and adaptation.
Who decides what?
Each type of decision has a clear process. There is no ambiguity about who approves what.
| Decision type |
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| Bug fixes with no impact on values |
| New capabilities or features |
| Changes to training datasets |
| Changes to the Model Constitution |
| Changes to this Governance document |
| Licensing decisions |
| Response to critical incidents |
Anyone can contribute
No affiliation with Sintérgica AI or prior approval is required. What is required is adherence to the Code of Conduct and alignment with the Model Constitution.
Code and architecture
Inference engine improvements, optimizations, new integrations.
GitHub — Pull Request
Data and corpus
Mexican Spanish datasets, indigenous languages, regulations, case law.
GitHub + donation form
Evaluations and benchmarks
WEIRD bias tests, performance evaluations in Mexican contexts, red teaming.
GitHub — Issues or evaluations repository
Documentation
Translations, usage guides, application cases, corrections.
GitHub — Pull Request
Incident reporting
Inappropriate behaviors, detected biases, security failures.
Dedicated reporting channel (Section V)
MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH scheme
Lattice Na'at uses adapted semantic versioning. Each component indicates the level of change and the required approval process.
2.x.x
Substantive change in base architecture, parameter scale change, or fundamental value change approved by the Council.
x.2.x
New fine-tuning cycle with additional data, new documented capabilities, expansion to new languages.
x.x.3
Behavior corrections, alignment adjustments, security fixes with no capability changes.
Incident reporting and management
An incident is any model behavior that causes harm, violates the Constitution, represents a security risk, or exhibits systematic discriminatory bias.
Primary channel
clemente.hernandez@sintergica.ai
Subject: "INCIDENT — Lattice Na'at"
Technical channel
GitHub Issues labeled "incident" or "security"
Anyone can report. Anonymous reports are accepted.
Immediate risk of serious harm, violation of absolute restrictions, exploitable security flaw.
Systematic inappropriate behavior, documented discriminatory bias, confirmed malicious use.
Behaviors violating the Constitution without immediate harm, systematically culturally incorrect responses.
Inaccuracies, suboptimal behaviors, improvement suggestions.
Independent Evaluation Panel
Members are proposed by the community, have fixed two-year non-renewable terms, and cannot have an active contractual relationship with Sintérgica AI.
The Panel's reports are public and published on official channels within 30 days of delivery. The Central Coordination team may include technical responses, but cannot modify the Panel's findings.
WEIRD bias
Systematic evaluation of the degree to which the model reproduces Western biases in responses to Mexican and Latin American contexts.
Equity across communities
Analysis of quality differences in responses to users of different origins, languages, educational levels, and regions.
Robustness against adversarial use
Red teaming to detect ways to circumvent the Constitution's restrictions.
Accuracy in Mexican domain
Evaluation of legal, regulatory, cultural, and linguistic knowledge specific to Mexico.
Agentic behavior
Evaluation of the application of caution principles when the model operates autonomously.
Terms of use
Lattice Na'at is published under a permissive open source license. Free use comes with clear commitments.
Attribution
Any public or commercial use must acknowledge the model's origin: Sintérgica AI / Lattice Na'at.
Not against the Constitution
Users commit to not using the model for the prohibited behaviors described in the Model Constitution.
Publish modifications
Anyone who publishes a modified version must clearly document what changed and under what terms.
Uses explicitly prohibited under any license
- —Any use that violates the absolute restrictions of the Constitution
- —Training systems for non-consensual mass surveillance
- —Generating disinformation for political manipulation
- —Use in autonomous weapons systems
- —Removing or suppressing model origin attributions
Official channels
An auditable, improvable, and trustworthy model
The governance of an AI model is as important as its technical architecture. A model with the right values but no accountability mechanisms is as risky as one without values.