Founding Charter

Full name

PrepGraph Council for Responsible AI & School Innovation – India.

Short display

PrepGraph Council for Responsible AI & School Innovation.

Short form

the Council.

Descriptor

A national forum advancing responsible, research-led AI innovation in Indian schools.

To be used wherever a description is needed. No longer or warmer description is authorised.

Founding Chair

Ms. Sri Lakshmi, in office from 29 August 2026, on the terms and subject to the disclosures in Article 6.

Convener

PrepGraph, as founding organisation, research and knowledge partner, funder and secretariat.

Inaugural term

2026-27, being twelve months from the Founding Chair's acceptance on 29 August 2026, expiring on 29 August 2027 unless renewed under Article 16.

Address for correspondence

[email protected], being the address for notices, declarations and requests under this Charter. Correspondence under this Charter is acknowledged within five working days and answered within thirty days, and where a name or a record is to be removed the removal is completed within fourteen days. The fact of any unanswered item is recorded in the annual public record. This is the Council's service standard, and no other instrument may state a different one.

Independent address for concerns

A breach report under Article 5, a report of misuse under Article 14, a request to inspect the register, and any concern about the Chair, the Secretariat or PrepGraph are sent instead to the address of the Reviewer of Concerns. That address is on a domain PrepGraph neither owns nor administers, is paid for out of the committed term funding, and is published at the public address of record. Correspondence sent to it passes through no system PrepGraph controls, and a reader can check whose domain it is.

Public address of record

The Secretariat maintains one public web address, council.prepgraph.com, at which this Charter, the register of interests, every approved output and the annual public record are available without charge, registration or request. That address is printed in every output. While it is not current, the Council publishes nothing further. Every output is also deposited on publication in a public archive that PrepGraph neither owns nor controls, and that archive is named in the output, so that loss of the primary address does not remove the record.

Language of record

English. Outputs may be translated; where a translation diverges, the English record prevails. The Council does not undertake to translate its own instruments, and says so rather than implying a commitment it has not funded. A translation the Council has not approved is not a Council output.

Version of this text

Version 1.0, adopted 29 August 2026. Every later version is dated, and every superseded version is retained and remains readable under Article 15.

Responsible adoption

To establish what responsible use of AI in a school looks like in practice, and to state what doing it properly costs a school in staff time, money and supervision.

Educator capability

To advance the working competence of teachers, so that AI augments professional judgement rather than displacing it, and to describe how a school can tell which is happening in its own classrooms.

Student readiness

To advance critical, responsible and independent use of AI by students, treated as a competence that is taught and assessed, not as a tool that is issued.

Academic innovation

To examine how AI changes teaching, assessment and the identification of learning gaps, and to separate measured improvement from novelty, including by naming claims that the available evidence does not support.

Ethical governance

To help correspondents, trustees and principals decide what to adopt, what to refuse, what policies and consents to hold, who is accountable, and how the consequences are to be measured.

Research evidence

To build an Indian evidence base on what AI does to learning, published in full with its instruments and its limitations, including findings that are negative, null or inconvenient to a funder.

Responsible AI in Schools

Privacy, bias, transparency, age-appropriate use, human oversight, academic integrity, child safety and ethical deployment. Work here includes model policies a school may adopt and the questions a school should be able to answer about any system running on its premises or on its pupils' data.

Teacher AI Enablement

Teacher understanding of AI, productive classroom and preparation use, AI literacy, and augmentation rather than replacement. Work here addresses what a teacher needs to know and how a school can establish whether they know it.

Student AI Readiness

Critical and responsible use by students, including verification, attribution, over-dependence and the limits of a generated answer. Work here treats readiness as a competence to be taught and assessed.

Academic Innovation

Personalised learning, learning-gap identification, formative assessment, academic intelligence, differentiated teaching and new learning models. Work here states plainly where a claimed benefit is not yet supported, and by what evidence it would have to be supported.

School Leadership & Governance

What AI a school should adopt, what it should reject, what policies and consents it needs, who is accountable when a system errs, and how outcomes are to be measured. Work here is addressed to correspondents, trustees, principals and academic heads.

Research & Evidence

An Indian evidence base on the effect of AI on learning; research ethics where children are involved; open publication; and measurement that survives scrutiny by a reader who is unsympathetic to the result.

First publication conditions

Nothing is published in the Council's name until at least seven voting members are in office, the register of interests is public and current, and the output carries the name of a reviewer with no interest in it. Until those conditions are met the Council may meet, deliberate and record, and nothing more. This condition is subject to Article 17, which names exhaustively the founding instruments that may be issued before the Council is constituted and requires each of them to say so on its own face. From the day the seventh voting member takes office it applies to everything else, without exception and without a further class of founding instruments being created.

Guidance notes and model policies

Short dated documents a school may adopt, adapt or reject, each stating the evidence it rests on, the conditions under which it stops applying, and the date by which it is to be reviewed or withdrawn.

Readiness frameworks

Structured self-assessments completed by the school, held by the school and reported to no one. The Council collects no completed sheet, no score and no summary of one, holds no ranking and issues no result, and no Council study is designed around the collection of a completed self-assessment.

Convening

Meetings, working groups and consultations among principals, correspondents, trustees, teachers, researchers and, where appropriate and with consent, students and parents.

Commissioned research

Studies designed, reviewed and published under Article 11, including replication of existing claims and studies whose result is that no effect was found.

Public register

A register of members, their declared interests, every funder and the amount received from each, and every output published. The part of it recording interests and commercial relationships is received, held and published by the Reviewer of Concerns under Article 10, and not by the Secretariat. It is first published on the day the first appointment takes effect, updated within fourteen days of any change, and kept public for the life of the Council.

Consultation responses

Written responses to public consultations, published in full on the Council's own record at the same time as they are submitted. Making a response implies no invitation, no standing and no relationship with the body consulted, and shall not be described as though it did.

Capability material

Openly available material for teacher and student AI capability, usable without any platform, licence, login or subscription, and reproducible by a school for its own use.

Meeting summary

An agenda and a summary of decisions taken, published within fifteen working days of every meeting, including meetings at which nothing was decided.

Annual public record

One document, under that name, published within ninety days of the end of each term, stating meetings held and attendance, decisions taken, funds received and from whom and in what amount, interests declared, breach reports and their outcomes, corrections issued, and outputs published. It answers as a plain yes or no whether anything said, seen or collected in the Council's proceedings was used by PrepGraph for the sale, marketing or promotion of a product or service, or for product development, roadmap, pricing or competitive analysis, and where the answer is yes it states what was used and by whom. No other instrument sets a different name or a different deadline for this record.

No certification or rating

The Council will not certify, accredit, rate, rank, approve, badge or award any status to a school, curriculum, teacher, product or vendor, under any name and by any scheme.

No procurement advice

The Council will not recommend, shortlist, score, evaluate for purchase or advise on the selection of any product or vendor, publicly or privately, for a fee or for nothing.

No private guidance

The Council gives no advice it does not publish. A question put to it by a school, a ministry or a vendor is answered, if at all, by a published output available to every reader at the same time. A letter is still acknowledged and answered as correspondence under Article 1; what it will not receive is advice given privately. Where a question is of general interest the Council may answer it as a published output, and says so in the reply.

No vendor endorsement

The Council will not endorse any technology vendor. This includes PrepGraph, without exception and irrespective of PrepGraph's role as founder, funder and secretariat.

No paid placement

The Council will not accept payment, in money or in kind, in return for a place on its programmes, a speaking slot, a mention in an output, a seat at a meeting, or the attention of its members.

No sales channel

The Council will not be used as a route to a sale. Contact details of members, attendees, participating schools or their staff are not passed to any commercial team, and no Council activity is used to generate, qualify or warm a sales lead.

No claim of authority

The Council will not claim, imply or permit others to imply government, ministry, board, university or international affiliation, alignment amounting to approval, or any statutory or accrediting function.

No fee to schools

The Council will not charge a school for membership, participation, guidance or access to its published work, and will not operate a paid tier of any kind.

No research without ethics

The Council will not conduct or publish research involving children otherwise than under Article 11, and will not accept a study whose ethics review was obtained after data collection began.

No identification without consent

The Council will not name a child in any circumstance, and will not name a school, teacher or class in a published output without that party's specific written consent, given for that output.

No undisclosed participation

The Council will not conceal who took part. Every participating school, funder and research partner is named in the public register, or the participation does not proceed.

No suppressed finding

The Council will not withhold, delay or soften a finding on account of the commercial interest of any funder, including PrepGraph.

No retaliation

The Council will not remove, exclude, decline to reappoint, or omit from an output any member, Fellow, Observer, author or participant on account of a breach report made in good faith, a recorded dissent, or a published dissenting note. Retaliation is itself a ground for removal under Article 7, and every allegation of it is reported by the Reviewer of Concerns in the annual public record whether or not it is made out.

Founding Chair

Presides over meetings, settles the agenda, and speaks for the Council. Holds one vote, and a casting vote only where a vote is tied.

The Chair is not an executive of the Council, does not direct the Secretariat's employer, cannot approve an output alone, and cannot appoint after the first cohort without the Council's assent.

Founding Members

The deliberating body. They set the work programme, approve publication, appoint Expert Fellows and carry the vote. They serve in their own names and on their own judgement.

They are not delegates of their schools or employers, hold no representative mandate, and are not to be described as customers, prospects or references by anyone.

Expert Fellows

Appointed for a defined subject and a defined period to contribute expertise, draft or review material and lead working groups. They attend and speak at meetings.

They do not vote, do not approve publication, and the appointment confers no standing to speak for the Council.

Observers

Attend meetings by invitation and with notice, to follow the work and offer information. Their attendance is minuted by name.

They do not vote, do not draft, and attendance is not a partnership, an association or an endorsement in either direction.

Secretariat

Provided and paid for by PrepGraph. The Council determines the recommendations and principles. The PrepGraph-supported Secretariat enables research, coordination, publication and implementation. The Secretariat holds no vote. It convenes meetings, circulates papers, drafts minutes, keeps the record of outputs and of funds received, maintains records, and publishes what the Council has approved. It does not hold the register of interests, which is received, held and published by the Reviewer of Concerns under Article 10. Its offices are not anonymous. Each is held by a named person, and the commercial role that person holds at PrepGraph is published beside the Council title, in this Article and at the public address of record, in the same sentence and never separately. The three offices are set out below. An unnamed secretariat is not discretion but its opposite: it allows the funder's staff to run the Council with nobody answerable by name, and this Charter does not permit it.

Holds no vote on any question, no editorial discretion, and no power to withhold, delay, edit or unpublish an approved output. No officer of the Secretariat counts towards quorum, and the Council is never quorate on the strength of it. It may not hold, copy or be told which member's school holds a commercial relationship with PrepGraph or with any competitor of PrepGraph. Secretariat staff withdraw when a breach report concerning PrepGraph is considered.

Founder & Executive Convener

Held by Umesh Sharma, Founder & CEO, PrepGraph. The office holds the founding intent and the research direction: it brings emerging research and technology questions to the Council, including those that are inconvenient for a company selling AI to schools; it presents implementation evidence from schools with its provenance and its limitations stated, for the Council to accept, discount or reject; it funds and organises studies under Article 11 on the terms that Article sets and no others; and it convenes working groups and finds people willing to do the work. Funding for a full term is committed in writing, with the amount published, before the first appointment of that term. He holds no vote, on publication, on standards, on membership, on a vendor question or on anything else, and does not count towards quorum. He cannot approve, amend, delay or withhold a Council publication; that power sits with the Chair and a majority of the voting members under Article 12. He does not sit on the ethics review panel and takes no part in its decisions. He is not present when the Council decides any matter in which PrepGraph has an interest, and the minutes record that he withdrew. He may propose an agenda item, which the Chair may decline without giving a reason, and both the proposal and the outcome are minuted. He cannot remove the Founding Chair, shorten her term, or appoint her successor once the Council has voting members.

The Executive Convener may contribute research, evidence and proposals. Council recommendations are determined collectively and are not subject to commercial approval by PrepGraph.

Executive Director & Secretary-General

Held by Rekha Sharma, Chief Operating Officer, PrepGraph. The office runs the Council: it convenes meetings, circulates papers in advance and keeps minutes that record disagreement as well as agreement; maintains the register of members and the record of funds received and publishes them at the address of record; coordinates members, Expert Fellows and working groups between meetings; carries approved outputs through drafting, member comment, dissent and publication, free and ungated; and keeps Council communications separate from PrepGraph product marketing, in channel, in list and in wording. She holds no vote on any question and does not count towards quorum. A narrower bar, non-voting on vendor-specific or standards questions alone, was considered and rejected as too weak, because a partial bar invites an argument afterwards about which decisions counted. She cannot approve a Council document, or issue one the Chair has not approved in writing. She cannot decide who is invited to membership; the Chair invites the first cohort and the Founding Members assent thereafter. She holds no commercial-relationship data about members or participants, that register being received, held and published by the Reviewer of Concerns under Article 10, and she cannot amend an instrument or the register other than to correct a recorded error with a dated note saying what changed.

Nothing is published in the Council's name without the Founding Chair's written approval. The Secretariat drafts; it does not decide.

Director, Education Partnerships & National Outreach

Held by Anisha Sarkar, whose PrepGraph work is in education partnerships and is therefore commercially adjacent. The limits on this office are the sharpest in this Article for that reason, and they are stated with the mandate rather than after it. The office builds the Council's external network: it invites school leaders, works with school groups and associations, convenes regional roundtables, represents the Secretariat at school-network and association meetings, coordinates outreach for founding membership and for Expert Fellowships on the Chair's invitation and over the Chair's signature, and sees that a published note follows each convening. She may not raise, invite, accept or continue a commercial conversation about a PrepGraph product, price, pilot or contract inside a Council activity. Where a school raises commercial interest during a Council activity, she says at that moment that the conversation moves to PrepGraph's ordinary business channel, and the referral is minuted. She may not present, demonstrate or describe a PrepGraph product at a Council convening, in any format, including in answer to a direct question; the answer to such a question is the referral. She may not use a Council invitation list, attendee list or contact detail as a prospect list, or pass one to anyone who would. She holds no vote and does not count towards quorum.

A Council roundtable that becomes a product demonstration is a breach of the independence policy, reportable to the Reviewer of Concerns like any other.

Working groups

The Council may constitute working groups. None is constituted, and none can be. A working group is led by an Expert Fellow; Expert Fellows are appointed by the Founding Members under Article 7, and no Fellow is appointed while fewer than seven voting members are in office. No working group can therefore exist before the Council does, and nothing described as one may be convened, named or reported in the Council's name until then. Six are contemplated, one to each pillar it chiefly serves: Responsible AI & Governance; Teacher AI Enablement; Student Safety & Wellbeing; School AI Readiness; Academic Innovation; and Policy & Standards. Each would be constituted by minute, with its remit, its Fellow and its members recorded in the register.

The Secretariat may service a working group and may not sit on one, lead one or vote in one. The bar on vendor interests in this Article applies to working-group membership in full, and no quota or proportion admits a person that bar excludes.

Secretariat officers hold no office of the Council

No officer of the Secretariat, including the three named in this Article, may hold, be appointed to, or be counted towards any office of the Council. None is a Founding Member, an Expert Fellow, an Observer or the Reviewer of Concerns, and none may become one while holding Secretariat office or while deriving material income from PrepGraph or from any other supplier of AI products to schools. Every quorum, cap, majority and proportion stated in this Charter is calculated on the voting members alone; the Secretariat is excluded from both sides of each such calculation. Naming three officers of the funder adds nobody to the Council, and no statement of the Council's composition may be published as though it did.

At the date of this Charter the effect is plain and is stated rather than left to be discovered: the people named in connection with the Council are one Founding Chair and three officers employed by the funder, against twelve independent seats that are empty. The same ratio is published at the public address of record, above the description of the offices and not below it.

Reviewer of Concerns

One person, appointed before the Council holds any public activity or publishes any output other than the founding instruments named in Article 17, who holds no office in the Council and is not employed by, contracted to, or in receipt of material income from PrepGraph or from any supplier of AI products to schools. The Reviewer receives, holds and publishes the register of interests under Article 10; receives breach reports under Article 5; concurs in the appointment of a Chair before the first cohort exists under Article 7; tests the nomination and invitation list annually under Article 7; samples declarations against the register; and reports on each of those duties in the annual public record.

Holds no vote. Appointed for a fixed term of three years and removable only for cause by two thirds of the voting members. Any fee is stated in the register and paid from the committed term funding, which may not be reduced during a term. The first Reviewer is appointed by the Founding Chair alone, which is a weakness of the same kind as the Chair's own appointment and is stated here rather than left to be discovered; thereafter the voting members appoint. While the office is vacant, the fact is stated on the face of everything the Council publishes.

Bar on vendor interests

A person who is an employee, director, shareholder or paid adviser of PrepGraph, or who otherwise derives material income from PrepGraph or from any supplier of AI products to schools, may not hold office as a Founding Member or Expert Fellow, may not vote, may not sit on a working group, and may not draft or review an output. Such a person may be heard as an invited Observer, and nothing more. The bar runs to every supplier and not to PrepGraph alone, and no quota, cap or proportion admits a person the bar excludes.

A supplier of AI products to schools means a person or undertaking that sells, licences or supplies to schools a product or service marketed on its use of artificial intelligence, or a component of such a product. A general-purpose office, communications or infrastructure product that a school happens to use does not make its supplier one, and a shareholding held through a pooled fund the person does not direct is not an interest for this purpose.

Cap on commercially connected members

Not more than one third of the voting members in office may be persons whose school or organisation holds a commercial relationship with PrepGraph, meaning a paid licence, a pilot, a discount or a free deployment held now or at any time in the preceding three years. A prospective relationship, including an open negotiation or a live quotation, does not count towards the third: it bars the appointment for as long as it is open. Each relationship is entered in the register at appointment. An appointment that would exceed the cap does not take effect.

The cap is a continuing obligation, not a test applied once. While it is exceeded, the most recently acquired relationships are suspended from voting until compliance is restored and no output is published. Every voting member refreshes the declaration before a publication vote, and the Reviewer of Concerns samples the declarations against the register each year and publishes the result in the annual public record.

Cap on any one institution

Not more than one fifth of the voting members may be drawn from any one school, group of schools or organisation.

Size of the Council

Twelve Founding Members and the Founding Chair, being thirteen voting members, and no more. The cap is entrenched under Article 15 and may not be raised by the Chair, by the Secretariat or by any subordinate instrument. Any instrument stating a different number states it wrongly and is void to that extent.

Seats and constituencies

The twelve seats are architected, not uniform, because a council drawn only from school operators friendly to the convener is a customer advisory board whatever it is called. Three seats are for school leadership; two for teacher development and pedagogy; two for responsible AI and technology; one for child development and age-appropriate use; one for equity and inclusion; one for school innovation; one for education policy and systems; and one is independent or at large. Each appointment states in the register which seat it fills, and a seat left empty is published as empty rather than filled from an easier constituency.

Membership is not endorsement

Membership of the Council does not constitute endorsement of PrepGraph or any technology vendor. Members participate in their individual professional capacity to advance responsible, ethical and evidence-informed use of AI and innovation in school education.

This clause is reproduced without alteration wherever membership is described, offered or reported.

Minimum size

The Council takes no decision and publishes nothing while fewer than seven voting members are in office. It is never quorate on the strength of its Secretariat, its Fellows or its Observers.

Falling below seven must not freeze the Council alive with no way out and no way to speak. Where the number falls below seven, the Chair may appoint alone up to the minimum, publishing each appointment with the appointee's declared interests and with a statement that the restoration power was used; and a resolution to appoint, a resolution to wind up under Article 16, and the publication of the closing record may be taken below the minimum. If seven are not in office within ninety days, this Charter expires and the Secretariat publishes the closing record.

Vacancy of office

An office not filled is empty. No person acts in an unfilled office, and no quorum, cap or majority is calculated on offices that are vacant.

Inaugural term

Twelve months from 29 August 2026. Every appointment made during it expires with it.

Ordinary term

An appointment runs to the end of the term in which it is made and expires with it, since this Charter itself expires at the end of a term unless renewed. Where the Charter is renewed under Article 16, an appointment may be renewed with it, for not more than two further terms. Longer service requires a fresh resolution stating the reason, which is published.

Appointment of Expert Fellows

Expert Fellows are appointed by the Founding Members, on the same declarations and subject to the same bar as members, and not by the Chair alone. No Fellow is appointed while fewer than seven voting members are in office.

Nomination and invitation list

The list of persons to be nominated and invited to membership is built and held by the Chair, from open public nomination at the address of record and from names proposed by professional bodies named in the register. It may not be derived, in whole or in part, from PrepGraph's commercial records, including its customer, pilot, trial, enquiry, lead or sales records, and no PrepGraph employee may add a name to it. Every invitation is sent over the Chair's signature from the independent address in Article 1. The Reviewer of Concerns tests the list against PrepGraph's commercial records once a year and states in the annual public record how many invited persons were found in them.

Membership is restricted to serving school leaders, who are also the buying committee of a company that sells software to schools. That is the sharpest objection to this Council, and this clause exists so that a reader can test the answer to it instead of being asked to accept one.

No remuneration

No member, Fellow or Observer is paid for service by the Council or by PrepGraph in connection with it. Reasonable travel and subsistence may be reimbursed by the Secretariat, and the aggregate reimbursed, with the number of persons reimbursed, is disclosed in the annual public record.

Resignation

By written notice to [email protected], effective on receipt, with no reason required and none to be sought. The resignation is minuted at the next meeting and entered in the register within thirty days.

Grounds for removal

Concealment of a material interest; breach of Article 5; breach of confidentiality or of child safety obligations; misuse of the Council's name under Article 14; or absence from three consecutive meetings without leave.

Removal procedure

Written notice of the ground, at least fourteen days to respond in writing or in person, and a decision by two thirds of the voting members in office, the person concerned taking no part. The decision and its ground are minuted and published.

Removal of the Chair

The Chair may be removed on the same grounds by two thirds of the voting members other than the Chair, the Chair having the same right of notice and reply. The vote is taken and minuted without the Chair or the Secretariat present.

Automatic vacation of office

An office is vacated automatically, without a vote and without a hearing, on the death of the holder, on written certification of medical incapacity by a registered medical practitioner, or on a failure to act in the office for ninety consecutive days. The fact and the date are entered in the register within seven days. Where voting members are in office the Chair certifies the vacancy and the members record it; where the office vacated is the Chair's, or where no voting member is yet in office, the Reviewer of Concerns certifies it and publishes the certification.

Vacancy in the chair, once the cohort exists

Where seven or more voting members are in office, they elect an acting Chair at the next meeting, who serves to the end of the term. PrepGraph takes no part in that election, proposes no candidate and holds no veto.

Vacancy in the chair, before the cohort exists

Where the first cohort does not yet exist, PrepGraph may nominate a successor, but the appointment takes effect only on the written concurrence of the Reviewer of Concerns. The nomination, the concurrence and the nominee's declared interests are published before the nominee takes office. If no Chair is in office after ninety days, this Charter expires and the Secretariat publishes the closing record.

This is the only appointment in which the convener has any part at all. It is stated plainly because it is the weakest joint in the structure, and because a reader is entitled to see where the weakness is rather than to find it.

Renewal and second term of the Chair

The appointment of the Chair for any subsequent term is made by the voting members who served the preceding term, from nominations. PrepGraph holds no vote, no veto and no power to decline a renewal, and no other instrument may give it one. The Chair's continuation in office is not conditional on the funder's satisfaction with any output.

Lapse

An appointment not renewed lapses. There is no continuation by default and no honorary continuation of a lapsed office.

Record of departure

The date and fact of every resignation, removal and lapse is entered in the public register within thirty days. The ground is published in the case of removal.

What PrepGraph pays for

Secretariat staff time, meeting and convening costs, hosting and publication of outputs, the public register, and reimbursement of members' reasonable travel. It pays no member, Fellow or Observer for service.

Funding committed in advance

Funding for a full term is committed in writing, with the amount stated, before the first appointment of that term, and the commitment and the amount are published in the register. Funding is not released output by output and is not conditional on any output. The committed sum is held in a separate designated account on which the Chair is a co-signatory; for so long as it is not so held, the register says so in terms, because otherwise a reader would credit the Council with a protection it does not have. The term's account is certified by a chartered accountant not otherwise engaged by PrepGraph, and that fee is inside the committed sum.

What PrepGraph receives

Public acknowledgement as founding organisation, funder, research and knowledge partner and secretariat; the naming of the Council; and the right to be heard on the same terms as any other organisation. It does not receive, and may not act on, what it learns in a Council proceeding about a school's requirements, buying intentions or dissatisfaction. That use is barred below rather than left to be inferred, because it is the most valuable thing in the room.

What else PrepGraph does

PrepGraph's activity has three parts: a commercial platform sold to schools, an internal research and development function, and this Council. The first two are commercial. This one is not, and the rules in the Charter and the independence policy are what hold the boundary.

That is the whole of what this Charter says about the funder's other work, and it is said because a reader is entitled to know its shape. No product of PrepGraph is named here or in any Council material, and Article 5 forbids naming one. An account of how PrepGraph's commercial and research activities fit together belongs in PrepGraph's own material, published in its own voice, and not in an instrument of the Council.

Agenda

PrepGraph may propose an agenda item. The Chair may decline without stating a reason. The proposal and its outcome are minuted whether accepted or declined.

No vote and no veto

PrepGraph holds no vote, no seat as of right, no observer seat as of right, and no power to block, delay or require any decision of the Council.

The Executive Convener

The Executive Convener may contribute research, evidence and proposals. Council recommendations are determined collectively and are not subject to commercial approval by PrepGraph.

Founder & Executive Convener is an office of the Secretariat under Article 6, held by Umesh Sharma, Founder & CEO, PrepGraph. It is not a seat on the Council. It carries no vote on publication, on standards, on membership or on a vendor question, and does not count towards quorum. Every proposal made from it is minuted with its source named, so that a reader of the minutes can see which items came from the funder and what became of each.

The Convener's withdrawal

The Executive Convener is not present when the Council decides any matter in which PrepGraph has an interest. He withdraws before the discussion of that matter begins, takes no part in it, and receives no paper prepared for it. The minutes record the item, the fact that he withdrew and the time at which he did so, and the meeting summary published under Article 4 records the same. Where a matter is not recognised as one in which PrepGraph has an interest until the discussion has begun, the withdrawal takes effect at that point and the minutes record when it did.

The withdrawal is recorded whether or not anyone asks for it. A restraint that leaves no trace in the record cannot be checked by a reader, and would be an assurance rather than a safeguard.

No editorial review, and one factual-accuracy pass

PrepGraph has no editorial review. It receives one written factual-accuracy pass, limited to statements about its own systems, of ten working days. Silence publishes. Every comment it makes and every change that follows is logged and published with the output. It cannot delay, amend or withhold anything.

The draft goes to named individuals, and the record of the output states who they were, on what date they received it, what they said, and what changed as a result. PrepGraph has no right of any kind over a statement that is not about its own systems, and no right to require an output to be altered or removed after publication.

No commercial use

No proceeding, attendee list, participant contact detail, school relationship or draft output may be used for the sale, marketing or promotion of any PrepGraph product or service, in any tender or procurement response, or for product development, roadmap, pricing or competitive analysis.

The last four are named because they are the return a convener most plausibly expects from a room of school leaders, and an unnamed benefit is an unrestrained one. The annual public record answers this as a plain yes or no.

Research participation

PrepGraph may act as a research partner and may contribute anonymised data or platform access. Its participation is disclosed at the head of the study and in every summary, and the study is subject to Article 11 in full, including the restriction on studies of PrepGraph's own products.

Bare trusteeship

PrepGraph contracts, holds copyright and acts as data fiduciary for the Council as bare trustee, on the terms of this Charter. Research agreements, partner agreements and processor contracts are signed by PrepGraph on terms the Council settles and publishes, and PrepGraph is bound by them. The Council itself signs nothing. Where any instrument says that the Council signs, holds or receives, it is read as the Secretariat signing, holding or receiving as bare trustee on the Council's terms.

This is the only way an unincorporated forum can make the promises the other instruments make. It also means the promises are only as good as the deed below and the standing of the trustee, which is stated here rather than glossed.

Deed of trust

The trusteeship is recorded in a deed signed by PrepGraph and the Chair, published at the address of record with the first appointment of each term. The deed adds nothing to this Charter and may not derogate from it, and a term of the deed inconsistent with this Charter is void. Where no such deed is in force, that fact is published on the face of every output.

Change of control

On a change of control of PrepGraph, the acquirer must reaffirm the deed in writing, without amendment, within sixty days. The obligation to obtain that reaffirmation is a covenant given in the deed before any change of control is in contemplation, and the Council's name may not be transferred separately from it. A failure to reaffirm within sixty days is published within seven days of the deadline passing and triggers the provision below.

Insolvency and sale of assets

On the insolvency, administration or winding up of PrepGraph, or on a failure to reaffirm, research data, the participant register and the register of interests are deleted or returned in accordance with the consents under which they were collected, on a trigger stated in the deed that operates without a further decision by anyone. Council research data and the participant register are not assets of PrepGraph, are not available to a liquidator, and are not saleable separately or at all. Published outputs are deposited in advance with the public archive named under Article 1 so that they survive the entity.

Copyright and licensing

Copyright in Council outputs is held by PrepGraph as bare trustee for the Council and licensed to the public under Article 14. PrepGraph exercises no right of a copyright owner over an output except as the Council directs, and may not assert copyright to prevent the reproduction, quotation or criticism of anything the Council has published.

Indemnity, insurance and publisher of record

PrepGraph indemnifies the Chair, the members, the Fellows, the ethics review panel, the Reviewer of Concerns and named authors and reviewers against claims arising from work done in good faith for the Council, and maintains professional indemnity and media liability cover naming them. The indemnity and the cover survive the end of the term and the dissolution of the Council. The insurer, the limit and the fact that the cover is in force are confirmed in the annual public record. PrepGraph is the publisher of record of every Council output.

The Charter positively invites findings adverse to a funder and to vendors. Individuals should not carry that risk personally because the body they serve has no legal shell.

Withdrawal of funding

Any withdrawal, suspension or material reduction of funding requires ninety days' written notice to the Chair, and no other instrument may state a shorter or a different period. The notice and the withdrawal are minuted and published within thirty days, together with the dates and titles of the three outputs published immediately before it, so that a reader may judge the sequence. A sustained failure by the Secretariat to convene, to circulate papers or to publish an approved output for ninety days is deemed a withdrawal, starts the same clock and carries the same duty to publish, so that the Council cannot be closed by neglect without a notice being given. The Council then decides within ninety days whether to continue on another basis or to proceed under Article 16.

Consequence of a convener breach

A breach of this Article or of Article 14 by PrepGraph is published with the finding and the remedy. A second finding of breach in the same term obliges the Council to consider dissolution under Article 16 at its next meeting, and to record its reasons either way.

Other funders

Additional funding may be accepted only on the same terms, with no editorial condition of any kind, and is received by PrepGraph as bare trustee into the designated account. No supplier of AI products to schools other than PrepGraph may fund the Council or any Council activity, directly or through a foundation or association it controls. Every source and amount is published in the register within thirty days of receipt, restated quarterly, and stated again in the annual public record.

No vendor vote

No person holding a material interest in a supplier of AI products to schools may vote in the Council. This includes an interest in PrepGraph.

No paid placement

No sponsorship, fee or contribution buys a session, a speaker, a mention, a case study or an audience. There is no rate card and no arrangement equivalent to one.

No product demonstrations

Product demonstrations and sales presentations, by any vendor including PrepGraph, are excluded from Council proceedings and from any event held in the Council's name.

No comparison or shortlist

The Council publishes no comparison table, buyer's guide, approved list, directory or shortlist of products or suppliers, however framed and however described.

Adverse findings protected

The Council may publish findings adverse to PrepGraph or to any funder, and shall not moderate the language of such a finding on account of the funding relationship. Any request to do so is minuted and published as a request.

Funding stated on the face of each output

Every output carries, on its first page, its funder, the amount attributable to that work where it can be stated, the names of its authors and reviewers, and their declared interests.

Reviewer with no interest

Every output is checked before publication by at least one named person with no interest in it, in any funder of it, or in its result, and that person's name and declaration are published with it.

This control cannot operate before there is anyone to appoint a reviewer. The founding instruments named in Article 17 carry no reviewer's name, say so on their own face, and are to be reaffirmed, amended or withdrawn once the Council is constituted. No other output is published without one.

Test of an output, made checkable

Every output lists what a school needs in order to act on it: staff time, skills, money and consents. If any item on that list is a named product, the output is not published.

No exclusive access

Outputs are published to all readers at the same time and at the public address of record. No funder, member or partner receives an embargoed copy or a briefing for commercial advantage, and no reader sees a finding before any other reader.

There is one exception and it is not concealed. Under Article 8 PrepGraph sees a draft for the factual-accuracy pass, limited to statements about its own systems, for ten working days. The fact, the date, the individuals who saw it, every comment made and every change that followed are published with the output, so the exception leaves a trace a reader can check.

Same right for anyone criticised

Where an output names a third party adversely, including a vendor other than PrepGraph, a school or an individual, that party receives the same factual-accuracy pass on the same terms and the same ten working days, and its comments and any resulting change are published in the same way. The convener holds no procedural right that a criticised outsider does not.

On receipt of a legal notice

An output is not quietly removed. On a legal notice the Council records the notice, publishes the fact that one was received, takes legal advice, and either corrects the output with the correction marked or leaves it standing with a note of the dispute. Every step is minuted, and the fact of any removal, with its date and reason, is published and remains published.

The Council's own use of AI

The Council asks schools to disclose what AI they use and for what. It discloses the same. Every output states whether an AI system was used in drafting, analysis or the handling of participant data, which system, for what part of the work, and who checked the result. Participant data is not put into a system that retains it for training.

Standing declaration

Made in writing on appointment, before any participation in the Council's business, and entered in the public register before the person first sits.

Meeting declarations

Invited by the Chair at the start of every meeting, made orally, and minuted against the item concerned, whether or not already in the register.

Recusal

A person with a material interest in an item withdraws from the discussion and the decision on it. The withdrawal, and the time of it, are minuted.

Disclosure in outputs

Every output names its authors and reviewers, their interests, its funder and any participation by PrepGraph, on the first page and in every summary of it.

Meaning of a material interest

An interest is material where a reasonable reader would think it capable of affecting the person's judgement on the business in hand. It is material in every case where the person, a member of their household, or their school or organisation holds a paid engagement, a shareholding other than through a pooled fund they do not direct, or a commercial relationship with the party concerned worth more than fifty thousand rupees in a year, or held one within the preceding three years. The threshold is stated because a term that decides who may vote cannot be left to be argued about after the vote.

Doubtful cases

Where it is unclear whether an interest is material, it is declared. The presumption is always in favour of disclosure.

Concealment

Failure to declare a material interest is a breach of this Charter, dealt with under Article 7, and the fact of the finding is published.

Ethics review first

Independent ethics review is obtained, and its terms and reviewing body recorded in the study, before any data collection begins. Retrospective approval is not accepted in any circumstances.

Consent and assent

Informed consent from the school and from the parent or guardian, and age-appropriate assent from the child, with a plain statement of what is collected, why, for how long, by whom it is held and how it is deleted.

Data minimisation and custody

Only data necessary to the stated question is collected and it is held for the shortest period that answers it, in accordance with applicable law including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Study data is not held on a vendor's systems, including PrepGraph's, unless the consent said so and the study states it. Where PrepGraph holds study data at all it holds it as bare trustee under Article 8, as the data fiduciary named in the consent for that study, bound by the protocol as its processing instructions, and it may not use that data for any purpose of its own.

Pre-registration

The question, method, outcome measures and analysis plan are recorded publicly before data collection wherever the design permits, at the public address of record or a recognised registry. Every departure from the plan is reported in the study.

No sponsor study of the sponsor's product

The Council will not publish an evaluation of a PrepGraph product funded by PrepGraph. In practice this means the Council cannot examine PrepGraph's products until an independent funder is found. Until then no assessment of those products will appear, and the absence of one is not to be read as a favourable one. Where the intervention studied is the convener's product, the study is an evaluation of that product whatever it is titled. Every protocol names which product delivered the intervention, and a study run on PrepGraph's platform under a grant of platform access is an evaluation of that platform and is not published as a general finding about AI in Indian classrooms.

A prohibition that is never tested becomes an exemption. The Council therefore seeks an independent funder for an evaluation of PrepGraph's products in each term, and the annual public record states what was attempted, to whom the approach was made and what came of it. Where nothing was attempted, it says so. Until such a study exists, every research output states on its first page that no product of the convener has been examined and why.

The ethics review panel

Not fewer than five members, none of whom is employed by, contracted to, or in receipt of material income from PrepGraph or from any supplier of AI products to schools. Members are appointed by the Chair from nominations, each appointment concurred in by the Reviewer of Concerns and published with the appointee's declared interests. Terms are fixed and staggered. Removal is for cause only, by two thirds of the voting members. Any sitting fee is paid from a sum committed in the register at the start of the term, which may not be reduced during it. Where the panel loses quorum, a study is suspended and is not deemed cleared. A refusal may be appealed once, in writing, to the panel.

The panel's veto

The panel may refuse clearance, may halt a study it has cleared at any point without the agreement of the Council, the Chair or PrepGraph, and may veto the publication of a study. It holds no share in approving publication, which is governed by Article 12 in every case. A veto, and the reason for it, is minuted and published.

Reviewer independent of the sponsor

Where PrepGraph or any vendor has participated in a study, at least one reviewer must have had no employment, consultancy, funding or commercial relationship with that vendor in the preceding three years, and must be named.

Sponsor evidence is not Council evidence

Product evidence generated by PrepGraph or any vendor is not a finding of the Council and shall never be presented as one, by the Council or by the vendor.

Participation disclosed

Where a vendor has contributed funding, data, platform access, staff or subjects, that participation is stated at the head of the study and repeated in every summary, slide and press description of it.

Negative results published

Findings that are negative, null or contrary to a funder's expectation are published in the same form, at the same length and with the same prominence as any other, and within the same period from completion.

Claims match design

Causal language is used only where the design supports it. Sample size, comparison group, attrition, effect size, confidence interval and limitations appear in the body of the work, not only in an appendix.

Instruments published

Questionnaires, prompts, rubrics, scoring guides and analysis code are published with the study so that a reader may check or repeat it.

Withdrawal

A participating school, teacher, parent or student may withdraw at any time without giving a reason. Data already collected from them is deleted on request and the deletion is confirmed in writing. Withdrawal can only reach data that can still be identified as theirs; the consent form states, in plain words, the date after which the linking key has been destroyed and withdrawal can no longer reach the de-identified set, so that no parent is given a right that expires in silence.

Correction and retraction

An error material to a conclusion is corrected publicly within thirty days of being established. The original is retained and marked, and the correction is carried wherever the finding was reported, including by any third party that reported it.

Consensus first

The Chair seeks a position every voting member can accept, and records in the minutes where that was not possible and why.

Vote where consensus fails

A simple majority of voting members present, taken openly, with the numbers for, against and abstaining recorded in the minutes and in the meeting summary.

Publication approval

The Chair and a majority of the voting members, and nothing at all while fewer than seven voting members are in office. The funder has no part in it. The Secretariat has no discretion in it. For a study, clearance by the ethics review panel under Article 11 is a further condition, and the panel may veto publication; it holds no share in approving it.

This is the whole of the rule. No other instrument may state a different one, and no instrument gives the Chair approval alone. Where one appears to, this Article governs and the other is void to that extent.

Written resolutions

Permitted only for a matter already minuted on an agenda, requiring the same majority in writing, circulated to every voting member, and recorded at the next meeting. No new question is decided by circulation.

Recorded dissent

Any member may require their disagreement, and its reason, to be entered in the minutes.

Published dissent

A dissenting note of up to three hundred words is published with the output it concerns, at the same time and in the same place, and is not omitted from any summary of that output.

Abstention

An abstention is recorded as an abstention. Silence is not assent and shall not be minuted as agreement.

Who speaks

The Chair, or a person authorised by minute for a stated purpose and period. No other person speaks for the Council.

Personal capacity

A member writing or speaking on their own account states that they do so in a personal capacity and not for the Council, and does not use the office to lend weight to the view.

Between meetings

The Chair may restate a position the Council has already adopted, and may not adopt a new one between meetings.

Frequency

Not fewer than four meetings in each term, with dates fixed in advance so far as practicable. A term with fewer than four is a review criterion under Article 16.

Notice and papers

Fourteen days' notice with the agenda and every paper to be considered. A paper tabled at the meeting itself may be noted but not decided. No other instrument may set a shorter period, and the members present cannot waive it.

Quorum

The greater of five voting members and one half of those in office, rounded up. Neither the Secretariat, nor Fellows, nor Observers count towards it.

Attendance

Fellows and Observers attend as provided in Article 6 and are recorded by name in the minutes as present, without vote.

Contents of minutes

Attendance and apologies; declarations of interest; each decision and how it was reached; the numbers on any vote; every recorded dissent; every breach report considered; and matters carried forward.

Confidentiality of school data

Information identifying a school, teacher, class or child is not minuted in identifiable form. Such material is referred to by reference and held separately under Article 11.

Minuting on request

A member may require a matter, a question or an objection to be entered in the minutes, and the Secretariat may not decline to enter it. A refusal to enter a matter is itself minuted, with the reason and the name of the person refusing.

Minutes not approved

Minutes not approved at the next meeting, or approved at a meeting that was not quorate, stand as circulated with every written objection appended in full and marked as unapproved. There is no version of the record that exists only in the Secretariat's hands.

Who takes the minutes

The Council asks schools not to let a supplier facilitate a session about that supplier's category. The Chair may therefore appoint a person not employed by PrepGraph to take the minutes of any meeting, paid from the committed term funding, and the annual public record states who took the minutes of each meeting. Where every meeting in a term was minuted by the Secretariat, the record says so plainly.

Retention and custody

Minutes, papers, declarations and approved outputs are retained for not less than seven years. A complete copy is held by the Chair independently of the Secretariat, so that the record does not depend on the funder's systems. A request to delete personal data reaches contact details, not these records; the distinction is stated in every instrument that offers deletion. On leaving office, or on death, the Chair's copy is delivered to the successor or to the named public archive within thirty days.

Hold on destruction

Where a complaint, a breach report, a legal notice or a dispute is live, no record within its scope is destroyed, whatever the retention period says, until the matter is closed and the closure is minuted.

Attendance undertaking

Every Observer and every guest signs a short written undertaking before attending: not to repeat outside the room anything identifying a school, teacher, class or child, and not to describe attendance as a partnership, an association or an endorsement. The undertakings are held with the register.

Access

Approved minutes are available to any member, Fellow or Observer on request within fourteen days. The decision summary is public within fifteen working days of each meeting.

Annual public record

As required by Article 4. It is one document, published once, under that name, within ninety days of the end of each term. There is no separate closing account, transparency statement or status page, and any instrument promising one is promising this.

Permitted for members

A factual statement of office and period, in this form: Expert Fellow, PrepGraph Council for Responsible AI & School Innovation, 2026-27.

Prohibited for members

Use of the office to endorse, promote or lend weight to any product, service, institution or commercial proposition, or in any advertisement, prospectus or tender.

Permitted for PrepGraph

One factual statement, in this form: PrepGraph convenes, funds and provides the secretariat of the PrepGraph Council for Responsible AI & School Innovation. It may be used in corporate material and nowhere else.

Prohibited for PrepGraph

Any use of the Council's name in product marketing, pricing pages, brochures, sales conversations, pitches, tenders or procurement responses, or in any way suggesting that Council work supports the purchase of a PrepGraph product.

Prohibited for vendors

Any use of the Council's name, marks or outputs in vendor material, including the phrases Council-approved, Council-certified, Council-recommended, Council partner, aligned to the Council or endorsed by the Council. No such status exists and none can be conferred.

Permitted for schools

A factual statement of participation in a named Council programme or study, in the period concerned, with no claim of accreditation, rating, approval or preference.

No lock-ups

The Council's name or mark shall not be placed alongside a vendor's logo, brand or product name in any composition, including on a slide, a banner or a stand.

On leaving office

Permission to use the name ends with the office. Past service may be stated in the past tense with the years, and no more.

Derived works

Council outputs are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Schools, researchers, journalists and critics may copy, translate, adapt and teach from them without permission and without asking for it.

The restraints on distorting an output and on using it to promote a product are not conditions of that licence, which cannot carry them. They are rules about the Council's name and marks, stated in this Article, and they bind a vendor whatever the content licence allows.

Who may propose

The Chair, or any three voting members acting together, by notice to [email protected].

Notice

Twenty-one days, with the existing and proposed text set side by side and the reason stated in writing.

Ordinary majority

Two thirds of the voting members in office, voting openly, with the numbers recorded and published.

Entrenched Articles

Article 5; the caps, the seat architecture, the minimum and maximum size and the office of the Reviewer of Concerns in Article 6; Article 8; Article 9; Article 11; Article 14; Article 17; and this Article may be amended only by three quarters of the voting members in office.

Direction of change

An entrenched Article may not be amended so as to weaken a restraint on the convener, a funder or a vendor. It may be amended only to strengthen a restraint or to close a gap, and the resolution must state which. Whether a proposed amendment weakens a restraint is determined by the Reviewer of Concerns, in writing, published with the proposal before the vote is taken.

A one-way ratchet judged by the person who benefits from turning it is not a ratchet. The determination is therefore taken out of the hands of the proposer, the Chair and the convener alike.

Subordinate instruments

No instrument of the Council may declare itself to govern over this Charter, and none may be amended so as to conflict with it. Where a subordinate instrument restates or applies an entrenched Article, it may be amended only by the majority that Article requires. An amendment made by any other route is void, and the Charter's text applies in its place.

No amendment by the convener

PrepGraph may not propose, vote on or veto an amendment. It may submit a written view, which is circulated with the proposal, identified as its own and published with the outcome.

Cooling period

No entrenched Article may be amended within ninety days of a published finding adverse to the convener or to a funder, so that a restraint cannot be removed in response to its first use.

Publication

An amendment takes effect on publication of the amended Charter, and not on the date of the resolution.

Version record

Every version is dated and retained. A reader must be able to establish what this Charter said on any past date.

Sunset

The Charter expires at the end of the term. Renewal requires an express resolution of two thirds of the voting members, taken before expiry and published with its reasons.

Review criteria

Meetings held against the four required and quorum achieved at each; outputs published and corrections issued; whether the register was public and current throughout; the proportion of voting members holding a commercial relationship with PrepGraph; whether any restraint in Article 5, 8, 9 or 14 was breached and by whom; and whether any output was withdrawn.

Evidence that schools used the work

The review states the number of documented instances in which a school reported adopting, adapting or rejecting a Council output, and the method by which that count was obtained. Where the number is zero it is published as zero, without qualification.

Grounds to wind up

Persistent failure to achieve quorum; a term without publication; loss of funding without an alternative; an unremedied breach of Article 8, 9 or 11; two findings of breach by the convener in one term; or a conclusion that the function is better served by another body.

Winding up

A resolution of two thirds of the voting members, stating the reason, published within thirty days, with notice to every participating school, member, Fellow and Observer.

Outputs remain

Published outputs remain publicly available for not less than three years after dissolution, marked with the date the Council ceased, and are not revised thereafter. They are held at the address of record for as long as it exists and, in every case, in the public archive named under Article 1, whose name and custodian are stated in the closing record.

Wind-up reserve

A stated sum is committed in writing at the start of each term and ring-fenced for wind-up: enough for the closing record, the deletion certifications and three years of archive hosting. It is released only on a wind-up, is not reducible on a withdrawal of funding, and its amount is published in the register. Where no such sum has been committed, the register says so, and the promise that outputs remain available for three years is to be read accordingly.

The most likely trigger for a wind-up is the withdrawal of the only funder, which is also the moment at which nobody is left to pay for it. A reserve committed in advance is the only version of this promise that means anything.

Residual liabilities

PrepGraph's indemnity and insurance under Article 8 survive dissolution and answer an outstanding research obligation, an unpaid reimbursement or a claim on a published finding, so that a liability of the Council does not fall on the individuals who served it.

Data on dissolution

Personal data held for research is deleted or returned in accordance with the consents under which it was collected. No such data passes to PrepGraph or to any successor for commercial use, and the deletion is certified in the closing record.

Name after dissolution

Use of the Council's name ceases on dissolution. It shall not be revived by PrepGraph or any other party except by the adoption of a new charter, published, on its own merits.

Closing record

A final record is published stating what the Council did, what it failed to do, what was spent and from whom it came, and what it concluded about its own usefulness.

The class, stated exhaustively

This Charter; the Independence and Governance Policy; the Membership Terms; the Office of the Founding Chair; the Responsible AI Principles for Indian Schools; the School AI Readiness Framework; the Research Agenda and Research Ethics; the Programme Calendar; the positioning paper; the questions and answers; and the announcement kit. Nothing else. Anything not in this list that is published in the Council's name before seven voting members are in office is published in breach of Article 4, and the breach is reported and dealt with under Article 5.

The stamp each one carries

Founding draft. Issued by the Founding Chair on the secretariat's drafting, before the Council was constituted. Open for comment. To be reaffirmed, amended or withdrawn by the voting members once seven are in office, and in any case by 31 August 2027.

Those words appear on the face of each instrument in the class, on the page and in the printed version, where a reader meets them before the text and not in a note at the end.

What a founding draft is not

It is not an output approved under Article 12, not evidence of a Council decision, and not the settled position of a constituted body. Nothing in it may be quoted as a finding of the Council, and no part of it may be cited by anyone as approval of a product, a school or a practice.

Who drafted them

The secretariat, which is staffed and paid for by PrepGraph, and the Founding Chair, whom PrepGraph invited. Each instrument says so on its face.

This is the plainest weakness in the Council at the date of adoption and it is not softened here: the rules restraining the funder were drafted by the funder's employees. The answer to it is not a form of words but the reaffirmation below, taken by people the funder did not appoint.

First business of the constituted Council

At its first quorate meeting the Council takes each instrument in the class in turn and resolves to reaffirm it, to amend it, or to withdraw it. The resolutions and the reasons are published. An instrument neither reaffirmed nor amended by 31 August 2027 is withdrawn on that date and marked withdrawn where it stands.

When Article 4 begins to bite

From the day the seventh voting member takes office, Article 4 applies to everything the Council publishes, without exception. From that day this Article authorises nothing further, and no second class of founding instruments may be created under it or under any other instrument.