Regulayer Class™ · Coming soon

The cleanroom standard for AI. And how to learn it.

A published reference standard·Self-attested·Receipt-verified

Regulayer Class is the reference standard that defines what a governed AI deployment looks like. It is also the school that teaches you how to build one. Same standard. Two surfaces.

A vintage industrial study. Three brass medallions on the wall engraved Standards, School, Certification. Three brass nameplates on a walnut desk engraved Regulayer Class 1 Foundation, Regulayer Class 2 Intermediate, Regulayer Class 3 Cleanroom, each carrying an emerald wax seal. A brass plaque reads Practitioner. An open book showing the Regulayer Class practitioner pathway. Brass banker's lamp, brushed steel, deep navy backdrop. — Standards · School · Certification

The double meaning

A deployment is Regulayer Class 1, Class 2, or Class 3 based on which layers of the kernel are active and how the architecture is verified. A person becomes a Regulayer Class Practitioner by passing the course and the assessment for that class.

The standard

Three classes. Each one a verifiable floor.

Modelled on ISO 14644 for semiconductor cleanrooms and USP <797> (2023 revision) for sterile compounding. Each class is a published verification floor. A deployment that meets the class self-attests to that class. Buyers, insurers, regulators, and counsel can read the attestation without contacting the deployer.

Regulayer Class is the published cleanroom reference for AI. Operators self-attest conformance against the standard. Attestations are signed and verifiable by any third party. Regulayer does not audit, accredit, or certify third parties.

Regulayer Class 1

Foundation. Drift named.

Required architecture

DriftLayer · DriftLedger · OriginLayer

What it guarantees

Behavioral drift is monitored continuously. Every governed decision produces a court-admissible record. Provenance of every output is tracked from creation through delivery.

Suitable for

Most enterprise AI deployments. The entry floor buyers can verify.

Regulayer Class 2

Intermediate. Operator and proof bound.

Required architecture

All of Class 1 · StateLayer · ProofLayer

What it guarantees

Adds continuous operator-state inference and runtime proof. The system reads the operator and the model in the same decision.

Suitable for

Regulated industry, clinical decision support, financial decision automation, legal AI inside firms.

Regulayer Class 3

Cleanroom. Fully isolated.

Required architecture

All eight kernel layers active · CleanLayer isolation verified

What it guarantees

The full kernel runs in architectural isolation. No data leaves the deployment. The verifying body is not employed by the deployer. The highest verification floor.

Suitable for

Physical AI, healthcare AI, defence, export-controlled environments, sovereign deployments.

The classes

Same name. The school.

A practitioner pathway built on the same three floors as the certification standard. Self-paced for the foundation. Cohort-based for the intermediate. Architect-level for the cleanroom. Each course ends in a verifiable Regulayer Class Practitioner badge, signed and held by the practitioner.

Class 1 Practitioner

Foundation course.

Format

Self-paced. Eight modules. Recognised reading list. Capstone deployment audit. Open enrollment.

For

Procurement leads, compliance officers, AI buyers, counsel evaluating vendors.

Class 2 Practitioner

Intermediate cohort.

Format

Six-week cohort. Live sessions. Written exam. Working deployment assessed against the Class 2 floor.

For

Technical architects, regulated-industry leads, DPOs, in-house counsel for AI-deploying organisations.

Class 3 Architect

Cleanroom Architect.

Format

Twelve-week programme. Cohort and mentor pairing. Full architecture review of a candidate deployment. Independent assessor.

For

CTOs, Heads of AI Governance, sovereign and defence deployment leads, certifying auditors.

Maps to

The standards Regulayer Class lines up with.

Each Regulayer Class is mapped to the existing standards an enterprise already operates under. A Class 1 deployment satisfies the relevant subsections of these standards by default. A Class 3 deployment carries the cleanroom certification across all of them.

ISO 9001

Quality management for the deployment as a whole. Class 1+.

ISO 27001

Information security across the AI surface. Class 2+.

ISO 14644

Cleanroom classification, applied here to architectural cleanroom. Class 3.

USP <797> (2023 revision)

Sterile-compounding contamination control. The founding principle of the kernel.

FDA 21 CFR Part 11

Electronic records and signatures. Class 1 covers by default.

EU Annex 11

Computerised systems in regulated environments. Class 1 covers.

EU AI Act Article 9

Risk management for high-risk AI. Class 2 covers.

EU AI Act Article 15

Accuracy, robustness, and audit. Class 1 covers.

The CRISPR principle

When a powerful technology arrives, gatekeeping does not work. Education does. The way CRISPR was brought safely into hospitals and laboratories was not by restricting access. It was by teaching the standard until everyone working with it spoke the same language.

Regulayer Class is the same move applied to AI. We do not restrict who can build governed AI. We define what governed AI looks like, and we teach it.

The standards-body model

Regulayer Class is structurally enabling, not exclusionary. The model is the standards-body pattern that built modern electrical safety, authentication, and connectivity infrastructure — Underwriters Laboratories for electrical products, FIDO Alliance for authentication, the Bluetooth SIG for wireless, the Wi-Fi Alliance for connectivity. Anyone can certify. The mark is open to any deployment that meets the standard.

The classification is published. The methodology is public. Operators self-attest against the standard at Class 1. Independent assessment is available at Class 2 and Class 3 for organisations that require it. The intent is to grow the population of governed AI deployments, not to gate it.

The Regulayer architecture itself remains the technical floor that makes the standard meaningful. The standard is open. The architecture is licensed separately.