Trust LeagueThe Trusted Living Agent Framework, delivered

Trust League is where the Trusted Living Agent Framework is delivered, and where a leader can see it work.

The framework lets you trust the AI your company uses, with evidence in place of hope.

It shows that the AI is trustworthy, that it is aligned with the business, that it pays back, that it stays inside your limits for risk and compliance, that it is the right tool for the job, that you are free to leave any vendor, and that a named person owns every agent. Each of those seven is proved on one map of the business, where every tool, every vendor and every agent has a place and a reason to be there.

Three ways in, by situation

Choose the one that describes you. Each lane opens on the same method; the pages beyond it are the ones written for your seat.

  • I run a company

    See the method work on Hollister Reed, a fictional firm whose living twin is built from end to end, read what the twin holds and what it lets you trust, and then take the five-question screen to see what your own answers draw.

  • I advise companies

    The method can be delivered by someone other than Mortar Cloud, and the partner section of this page says what a partner gets, how admission is being set, and where to put your name down.

  • I want to build my own

    Write down what your agent is to value, refuse and treat as good, choose the character it carries, and then start in the Workbench with the first guided build from the book, give one agent a named owner and a purpose in a single sitting, and keep what you build.

Every lane opens on the same map. The essay One Map is the third step every reader takes before the lanes part, and it is the entrance to the framework laid out page by page below.

For the consultant who advises companies

A partner licenses the Trusted Living Agent Framework and delivers the method through Trust League under their own name, to their own clients, with the training cases, the templates and the readout format that the first client engagement refines. The method stays the same in every partner's hands, which is what lets a client trust it whoever delivers it.

Admission is being defined. The terms, and what admission requires of a partner, are published here once the first engagement has shaped them, and the first partners are drawn from the founding waitlist in the order they joined it.

The founding partner waitlist

Leave your email and you hear first, before the terms are public.

The framework, laid out page by page

The Trusted Living Agent Framework is drawn out here as a set of pages a reader can walk through, from the whole map down to each of its parts. The entrance is the essay One Map, which shows how everything that creates AI noise in a company has a place on a single map: five pillars by three signatures, with the business beneath.

  • Tail NumbersIdentity. Why a sky full of blips is not a sky anyone can govern.
  • Act Like UsThe foundation. What an agent has to be told before it can speak for you.
  • What an Agent Should BeCharacter. Fifteen virtues, and why a permission list was never going to be enough.
  • What Must Be TrueThe perimeter. How inside-out governance completes the compliance work you already run.
  • The Trusted Living TwinOne firm. The whole framework instantiated for one business, measured before AI and after it, with the essay What AI Changed beside it.

Connect

  • SubstackThe essays, with a copy of each one and a link back to its original here.
  • dalemartin.aiThe front door for every new contact, and the person behind the framework.
  • Bears and MosquitoesThe book that states the problem the framework answers.