Owner and hypothesis
Name the accountable owner and the falsifiable question before implementation.
Experiment register
No hidden test. No automatic winner.
A public experiment requires an owner, hypothesis, primary metric, guardrails, consent, start date and expiry. Price, safety, support and academic-outcome experiments are prohibited by this public contract.
Current state
There are no registry-approved active experiments.
This is not a claim that experimentation will never occur. It is the exact public register state now.
Activation gate
Seven records before exposure.
Assignment cannot begin from code alone. The reviewed registry record must exist first and must expire or be withdrawn deliberately.
Metric and guardrails
Primary measurement cannot override safety, accessibility, support, source or commercial guardrails.
Consent and expiry
Exposure requires an explicit choice and a bounded active period. Completion does not auto-publish a winner.
Lifecycle
Every state is explicit.
Paused, completed and withdrawn states remain distinct so a stopped test cannot silently restart.
The registry and owner receipt control this state.
The registry and owner receipt control this state.
The registry and owner receipt control this state.
The registry and owner receipt control this state.
The registry and owner receipt control this state.
The registry and owner receipt control this state.
Standing boundary
What this website will not do
These 15 hold whatever you choose above. They are held in the registry the site reads, so removing one is a decision rather than an edit.
- Turn analytics on before you have said yes.
- Follow you across other websites.
- Build an advertising profile of you.
- Fingerprint your device.
- Record and replay your session.
- Keep a permanent anonymous identifier for you.
- Run an experiment on you without saying so.
- Let an experiment declare its own winner.
- Personalise anything from sensitive data on its own.
- Apply a moderation penalty automatically.
- Publish a claim or a price without a person approving it.
- Show a live growth metric in public.
- Promise that alerting covers everything.
- Promise a response time.
- Let an operating job approve its own work.