Where trust begins.
Sanctity builds human judgment infrastructure: trustworthy AI that keeps people in command of the decisions that matter.
What is Sanctity?
Sanctity is human judgment infrastructure: trustworthy AI that keeps people in command of the decisions that matter. It works in two layers, a public values layer that helps decide the values AI should hold, and HumanChain, an expertise layer where an AI agent's hardest calls reach a qualified, accountable human.
Why Sanctity exists
Sanctity began with a question its founder could not put down: when a machine makes a decision that changes a life, who is the human behind it? Too often the honest answer is no one. The rule was set somewhere upstream, by people who never meet the outcome and cannot be asked to reconsider it. Sanctity exists so that, however capable AI becomes, that answer is never no one.
Years in the making
Sanctity was founded in 2022, in Amsterdam, after years its founder spent building and leading transformations where software had started making the calls that touched real people. One pattern kept recurring: a machine decides, a person is affected, and no one in the room can say who chose the rule it followed, or how to overrule it. The company was built inside the EU AI Act rather than around it. Sanctity does not write about AI governance. It ships under it.
How does Sanctity work?
Sanctity is human judgment infrastructure in two layers. In the values layer, anyone can answer a structured question, and that answer is recorded with equal weight, the most powerful person alive and a stranger counting exactly the same, so the system is taught from all of us rather than scraped from the loudest of us. In HumanChain, the expertise layer, when an AI agent reaches a call it should not make alone, the decision goes to a qualified human who is accountable for the outcome, and the agent resumes from that person's judgment. The principle under both is simple: AI does the heavy lifting, humans pass the judgment.
A place you belong
Sanctity is infrastructure first and a movement second, and both begin with the same act: a person decides a value, and an AI inherits it. It is built in the open, and it starts with people, not a pitch. Answer one question, add your values to the record, and help shape how the next generation of AI learns what matters. That is where trust begins.
Be the Voice ›Sanctity is a heavy word for a company, and it is meant as a constraint, not a vibe. There are lines the company will not cross even when crossing them is faster or more profitable: it will not ship a decision a person cannot refuse, and it will not remove the human-override switch, for any contract. A company is defined as much by its no as its yes.
Who founded Sanctity?
Sanctity was founded by Manj Chenna in Amsterdam in 2022. He works on human judgment infrastructure for the age of AI agents. His full story is at manjchenna.com ›.
I kept noticing the same thing: a machine decides, a person is affected, and no one is left who could have said no. I would rather build the layer that keeps a human there than write about why one is missing.