Under ForgeTrack sits GAAIM — Generally Accepted AI Metrics — an open reference specification published by Edson Technologies under Creative Commons. Every event written by ForgeTrack conforms to GAAIM. Every ForgeTrack report can be verified against a document that does not belong to us.
Three reasons, each of which is the kind of thing a CFO or tax partner asks before they sign off on a vendor.
If ForgeTrack disappeared tomorrow, GAAIM would remain. The reference implementations in TypeScript and C# would remain. Another implementer could pick up the specification and rebuild the product in weeks. CFOs do not sign contracts with vendors who might one day orphan their data. We made that impossible by design.
Because GAAIM defines the event envelope, ForgeTrack data can move between tools, databases, and tenancies without transformation. Export is not a feature; it is the default state of every record in the system.
Auditors trust documents they can read independently. A closed vendor format is a document only the vendor can read. GAAIM is a document anyone can read, implement, and argue with. That is the first requirement of anything the IRS or a diligence team will sign off on.
Six modules, each with a reference implementation, a JSON schema, and a set of conformance tests.
Everything is public, free, and Creative Commons licensed. No gate, no account, no waitlist.
GAAIM v0.1 is published as a reference specification under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Edson Technologies is the current steward — publishing revisions, maintaining the reference libraries, and accepting conformance contributions from the field.
The license means anyone can implement GAAIM in any tool, commercial or open source, without permission. The ShareAlike term means derivative specifications must also be published openly. Nothing about the standard is proprietary to ForgeTrack, and nothing is proprietary to Edson Technologies beyond the stewardship role itself.