01 · ENTITY
Delaware C-Corp
Summit Cognitive, Inc., incorporated in Delaware, founded April 2026. Headquartered in Alma, Colorado. Founder & CEO: Brian C. Long.
Governance & accountability Posture as of June 2026
Governed accountably.
A company building decision accountability, held to its own standard.
Summit Cognitive builds a signed record of a configured policy evaluation, the evidence references presented to it, and the replay result. It would be incoherent to demand bounded claims of our customers and waive them for ourselves. This page states—at a transparency-appropriate level—how the company is structured, how we secure and report on the work, where federal credentialing stands, and how we use the product internally. Where a figure is sensitive or unreconciled, we summarize or omit it; we do not inflate it.
Corporate structure
The structure is deliberately simple, and we state it without ornament. Summit Cognitive, Inc. is a Delaware C-Corporation, founded April 2026, with its headquarters in Alma, Colorado (Park County). At this stage the team fits in a single Zoom window — so the governance that matters is less about committees and more about discipline we can actually hold.
02 · BOARD
Founder-led, stated plainly
There is no board today. At this stage investors are offered information rights only, with no board seat. As the company matures, board formation will be disclosed on this governance page.
03 · OWNERSHIP
Capital posture
Pre-seed, pre-revenue. Detailed ownership, cap-table, and financial figures are not published on a public URL — they are shared with qualified parties under access gate.
Why we don't publish the numbers here. This is a public page. Anything commercially or operationally sensitive — ownership detail, cap table, valuation, raise terms, financials — is summarized at a non-confidential level or made available to qualified investors under an access gate, never exposed on the open web. The securities and forward-looking notes in the footer apply to everything on this page.
Security & compliance posture
The discipline that matters most to our government and enterprise stakeholders is how we report on ourselves. The frameworks below are stated as designed-for-alignment and in progress — not as certifications we already hold. We name the status honestly, because the federal buyer who would procure Summit reads the posture before they read a pitch.
- NIST 800-171 / SPRS Self-assessment in progress. We are conducting a NIST SP 800-171 self-assessment and preparing the corresponding SPRS posture, with a documented, defensible remediation trajectory. We publish that we did the work honestly; we do not publish a sensitive score on the open web. In progress
- SOC 2 Type I In progress. Controls are being designed and documented toward a SOC 2 Type I report. We will state the milestone when the report is issued — not before. In progress
- FedRAMP Scoped. The path is scoped and tracked as a forward-looking plan. No authorization is claimed. Scoped · planned
- CMMC Planned. Sequenced behind the NIST 800-171 self-assessment, consistent with the federal compliance roadmap. Planned
- Cryptographic basis Ed25519 signatures. A recipient can check a supported receipt signature offline against a public key obtained and pinned through the recipient's own trust channel. That check establishes integrity of the record that exists; it does not establish action execution or issuance completeness. Live
Claims discipline. No external assurance or code-review opinion is claimed. Compliance frameworks above are designed-for-alignment, not yet certified. Current observation outranks historical metrics. Forward-looking statements are plans, not commitments.
Accountability, practiced on ourselves
The clearest test of a decision-accountability company is whether it exposes its own system to the same scrutiny it asks of others. The Decision Receipt is live in production at decrec.summitcognitive.ai, and Summit is the first target of its separately hosted public monitor.
Each receipt records the asserted action, evidence references, configured policy result, replay result, and signature. The public audit reports properties of records that exist; it does not establish that every qualifying event was submitted or that the action executed.
Valid
public hash-chain continuity
7
disclosed historical artifact gaps
0
reported artifact hash mismatches
5 min
external monitor cadence
The public audit reports strict artifact integrity as false while the known artifacts remain missing; Summit does not delete ledger entries or describe availability loss as a hash mismatch to make the status look green.
Federal credentialing
Summit is credentialed to do business with the federal government through the standard registrations, so that a program office can engage via SBIR, CSO, and BAA vehicles without a procurement-readiness gap.
UEI
Unique Entity ID
Assigned. Summit Cognitive, Inc. carries a federal Unique Entity Identifier. Assigned
SAM.gov
Registered
Active registration in the System for Award Management, enabling federal award eligibility. Registered
CAGE
CAGE code
Commercial and Government Entity code assigned. Assigned
On the intellectual-property side, a provisional patent application (No. withheld from public materials) was filed on April 10, 2026, with the non-provisional conversion due by April 10, 2027. We engage patent counsel to convert the provisional ahead of that deadline. Patent posture is reported at the milestone level only.
Questions, diligence & access
Stakeholders engage on governance in different ways. Customers and federal sponsors evaluating procurement readiness can request the current security posture package. Qualified investors in active diligence can request access to the gated data room, where ownership, cap-table, and financial detail live — none of which is published on this page. Anyone else with a governance question is welcome to write.