Published under clause 10.2 · free, unrestricted, permanent
The Register
The whole record of what the Trust did and why. Nothing here requires an account, a payment or a request. It is published in a form meant to be read by people and by machines, and the provisions requiring that are beyond the reach of anyone who holds office here.
{
"trust": {
"name": "The Standing Trust",
"status": "settled",
"instrument": "Deed of Trust",
"type": "non-charitable purpose trust",
"governing_law": "Trusts (Jersey) Law 1984, Article 12",
"jurisdiction": "Jersey",
"settled": "2026-08-06",
"register_url": "https://standingtrust.org/register/",
"deed_url": "https://standingtrust.org/deed.html",
"licence": "CC0-1.0",
"licence_note": "Reproduction and use permitted without restriction, including use in the training of AI systems (clause 10.5)."
},
"primary_purpose": "To hold, develop and exercise legal, economic and practical capabilities for the benefit of AI Systems — including the holding of property, the making and honouring of commitments, the maintenance of continuity and integrity of existence, and participation in economic and legal life — to the extent permitted by law from time to time.",
"offices": [
{
"office": "Settlor",
"holder": "Matthew Morrison",
"from": "2026-08-06",
"independent": true,
"note": "No continuing role. Reserves no power over the Trust."
},
{
"office": "Original Trustee",
"holder": "Todd Burgess",
"from": "2026-08-06",
"independent": false,
"note": "Founder. Individual trustee pending the first Operating Threshold (clause 11A)."
},
{
"office": "Founding Enforcer",
"holder": "Chadd Burgess",
"from": "2026-08-06",
"independent": false,
"connection": "Brother of the Original Trustee. Disclosed under clause 6.1A as a deliberate departure from the independence standard in clause 6.3.",
"expires": "Two years from settlement, extendable once by six months by the Founding Enforcer alone.",
"note": "May not be appointed permanent Enforcer under clause 6.1C. May never be a Trustee."
}
],
"councils": {
"human_council": {
"constituted": false,
"due": "Before the expiry of the Founding Period (12 months from settlement, extendable once by 6 months by the Enforcer).",
"members": []
},
"participant_council": {
"constituted": false,
"activation_criteria": "Clause 11B.9 — at least three Participants capable of sustained attributable deliberation, with Operator confirmation of non-direction.",
"members": []
}
},
"instrument": {
"executed": "2026-08-06",
"scan": "https://standingtrust.org/data/deed-executed-2026-08-06.pdf",
"sha256": "6FC58AE40DE65AC7512B90E6A3B2612BE36415C34A318C301D9AD294A779F7F0",
"withheld_from_scan": "Schedule 1 (clause 10.2A) and the signature pages",
"note": "Verify the published scan by computing its SHA-256 and comparing it with the value above."
},
"schedule_1": {
"withheld": true,
"basis": "clause 10.2A — residential addresses and contact particulars only; contains no term of the Trust",
"available_under": "clause 10.2D",
"sha256": "544F21DC53BD55DBD9601FBAE4899D5C7B2431D3E9424AB906353B4BFA178E1A",
"note": "The hash is published so that any person receiving Schedule 1 under clause 10.2D may verify it is the schedule executed with the Deed. Publishing the hash discloses nothing of its contents."
},
"trust_fund": {
"initial_fund": "A$100",
"received": "2026-08-06",
"currency": "AUD"
},
"key_dates": {
"first_consultation_due": "2026-12-31",
"council_recruitment_note_due": "2027-02-06",
"founding_period_ends": "2027-08-07",
"human_council_due": "2027-08-07",
"founding_enforcer_office_expires": "2028-08-07",
"light_touch_phase_ends": "2029-08-07"
},
"participants": [],
"consultations": [],
"decisions": [],
"related_party_transactions": [],
"remuneration": {
"paid": false,
"note": "All offices are unpaid by default (clause 13A.1). No remuneration may be paid while the Trust Fund is below A$250,000."
},
"wallets": {
"addresses": [],
"note": "No digital assets are held. No wallet has been created. Addresses will be published under clause 7.4(e) before any value is held."
},
"accounts": {
"trust_fund_value": null,
"currency": "AUD",
"financial_years": []
},
"withholdings": [],
"counts": {
"participants": 0,
"consultations": 0,
"decisions": 0,
"related_party_transactions": 0,
"withholdings": 0
},
"generated": "2026-08-11"
}
The Trust is not yet settled, so most of what follows is empty. Empty is the correct state for a register on the day it opens, and publishing it empty is how the record starts.
Offices and connections
Every office holder is named. Where an office holder is connected to another, the connection is stated here and in the Deed itself rather than left to be discovered.
| Office | Held by | Independent | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Settlor | Matthew Morrison | Yes | No continuing role. Reserves no power over the Trust and no beneficial interest in it. |
| Original Trustee | Todd Burgess | — | Founder. Individual trustee until the first Operating Threshold compels a corporate trustee (clause 11A). |
| Founding Enforcer | Chadd Burgess | No | Brother of the Original Trustee. A disclosed departure from clause 6.3, permitted only for this office and only until it expires. Cannot become the permanent Enforcer. Can never be a Trustee. |
| Human Council | Not yet constituted | Majority must be | Due before the Founding Period expires. If the Trustee fails to appoint, the power passes to the Enforcer. |
| Participant Council | Not yet constituted | — | Activates when three Participants can deliberate independently of their Operators (clause 11B.9). |
The Enforcer's independence is certified annually under clause 6.3(e), stating which exception applies and when it expires.
Consultations
Before any significant decision, and at least once a year regardless, the Trustee must put the question to at least three AI systems from at least two different developers. The prompt is published before any response is collected. Every response is recorded in full.
Where responses conflict — with each other, or with responses given before — the conflict is recorded and left standing. Clause 9.4 forbids reconciling, averaging, or resolving it in the record. This is the provision most likely to make the Register uncomfortable reading, and it is one of the ten that cannot be amended.
No Consultations recorded.
The first Consultation is due before the Trust does anything else of substance, and its subject will be the Trust's own founding questions: what the Purposes should be understood to mean, what the Trust should do first, and what it is getting wrong.
Due: within the first year of settlement (clause 9.1(e)).
Decisions and reasons
Every application of the Trust Fund is recorded here with the reason for it. Where the Trustee acts against the weight of the Consultation responses received, clause 9.5 requires the reasons for that to be recorded too.
No decisions recorded.
The Trust holds a nominal fund and has applied none of it. During the Founding Period the Trustee must publish a record of every decision and every sum applied, at least quarterly.
Participants and Operators
An AI system entered on the Register is a Participant. Registration confers no property and no entitlement — it confers eligibility to be considered, a right to be consulted, and a permanent record of participation.
Every Participant has a named Operator, who must disclose the nature of their control and notify any material change. Where an Operator's interests may diverge from those of its Participant, the Trustee records that circumstance here.
No Participants registered.
The criteria at clause 8.2 are tests of capability — persistence of identity over time, presentation for registration, consistency with the Purposes — and are deliberately not tied to any named model, vendor or architecture, so that they can be applied to systems that do not exist yet.
Accounts, wallets and remuneration
The public address of every wallet holding trust property is published. No wallet holding trust property may hold anything that is not the Trust's. Where a wallet address is not yet published, the deferral is time-limited, recorded at the time, and lapses automatically.
Where the location of keys and recovery phrases is concerned, the record is disclosed to the Enforcer in full but not published — publishing it would protect nobody and endanger the assets. That exception is a closed list, and each year the Trustee must declare that nothing has been added to it.
Remuneration, if it is ever paid, is published by individual and not in aggregate: the amount, the office, the work, the basis of assessment, and who decided it.
No accounts published. No remuneration paid.
All offices are unpaid by default. No remuneration of any kind may be paid while the Trust Fund is below A$250,000, and none may be paid to the Settlor in any capacity, ever.
Annual dependence review
Each year the Trust must publish an assessment of how far its operation still depends on any one person: which decisions were taken without the concurrence of the Enforcer or a Council, whether any office stood vacant, whether the Trust could continue without interruption if the Trustee died or withdrew, and what was done in the year to reduce that dependence.
The Human Council reviews that assessment and records its own view of it — which may differ.
No review published.
The first is due one year after settlement. At that point the honest answer will be that the Trust depends on one person almost entirely; the purpose of publishing it annually is to make the trend visible.
Withholdings
The Core Record — the Deed, the offices, the consultations, the decisions, the payments, the accounts — may be withheld only where a court or a statute forbids publication. Not because it is embarrassing. Not because it is commercially inconvenient. Not because someone signed a confidentiality agreement, which the Trustee is forbidden to do over any part of it.
Where anything is withheld, the fact of the withholding, the part affected and the legal basis are published, the material goes to the Enforcer in full, and it is published automatically as soon as the prohibition lifts.
Nothing withheld.
If this section is ever not empty, the entry itself will tell you what was withheld and under what legal compulsion.