The Evidence Engine · under the hood
Exactly how the guide learns — and protects you while it does.
For the people who like to know how the engine runs: here's the real architecture. Kaiārahi learns from language and choices, never from your private life — and we built it to the Māori AI Governance Framework and Aotearoa's Algorithm Charter from the first line of code, not bolted on after.
01 · The pipeline
Every interaction runs the same gauntlet before a single thing is kept. Most of the time, nothing is kept at all.
The raw prompt is never stored. Capture is off unless switched on, and only ever runs for a learner who has actively opted in. What's kept is redacted text, a one-way pseudonymous ID, and a keyed hash — never your name, never your identity.
02 · The guardrails
These are written into the code as non-negotiable — they beat build convenience, every time.
Nothing is captured unless capture is deliberately switched on — a governance decision, not a code default.
Nothing is captured for anyone without a current, active consent on record.
Personal details are stripped before anything is stored or scored. It over-redacts rather than risk a leak.
Records carry a one-way ID, never your email or identity. They can't be traced back to you.
Sensitive cohorts (te reo / Tuahiwi) are never captured to the cloud — they wait for the sovereign Hearth.
✦ Built to the Māori AI Governance Framework and the Algorithm Charter for Aotearoa — from day one.
“We measure capability, not people. We learn from language and choices — never from a person’s private life — and what we’re trusted with, we hold as taonga.”
The Kaiārahi data covenant
03 · The measure
Not clicks, not time-on-page. We look at the quality of a person's thinking with AI — across four dimensions.
Goal clarity, context, constraints — a clear, well-shaped ask.
Iterating, breaking a problem down, asking good follow-ups.
Does the prompt actually set up a genuinely useful result?
Privacy, checking the answer, cultural and ethical care.
Scored blind to who you are, and human-reviewed — never silently by a machine. It never rewards length, and never penalises plain English or te reo Māori. Capability, not verbosity.
04 · The journey
Your level is earned, not bought — and it's what opens up the create tier as you grow.
Your band is built from real activity — experiments run, things made — and, where it exists, a measured capability score from the reviewed index above. The measure leads; activity keeps it moving even before anything is scored.
05 · Where it lives
It runs responsibly in the cloud today, and it's built to come home.
Runs on Cloudflare with data minimised, redacted and pseudonymous. A conscious, careful interim — never the destination.
Local-first, sovereign hosting. The whole store moves home by design — one clean swap, no scramble. Data stays where it belongs.
✦ Māori data is treated as taonga at every step — guardianship and care, never a commodity, never sold.
06 · Why it matters
Careful measurement isn’t just good housekeeping — it’s how we show, with real evidence, that this actually works.
When we can demonstrate that ordinary people — not the already-confident — walk out genuinely more capable with AI, we can bring Kaiārahi to far more of them: through schools, workplaces, and the kind of public and government programmes that reach people who’d never otherwise get the chance. Your practice is the evidence that opens those doors — and because it’s gathered cleanly, it stands up to scrutiny.
Measured growth in how well people brief, judge and direct AI — not vanity metrics.
Proof that people come back from feeling left behind — the conviction this whole kaupapa is built on.
Evidence gathered to a standard that holds up to government and academic scrutiny.
No black box, no hand-waving — just careful, accountable work in service of helping people. If you'd like to be part of it, you'd be in good hands.
Our promise is simple: we’ll only ever ask for what genuinely helps, we’ll guard it like taonga, and if you switch it off you lose nothing. That’s the deal — and we’ll keep it.
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