EquiStamp
Scorecard
Private evaluation-services company; leads two EU AI Office technical-assistance lots (loss of control with METR and Epoch; harmful manipulation with Transluce). Clients named are evaluators and governments.
Private company, capital structure undisclosed, Remote. Independent referee; listed with independent referees. Confidence low. Domains: assurance, autonomy.
Conditional floor 6/8 evidenced · Retrieved & confirmed Scores by preset: Lab procurement –; Regulator or auditor –; Public trust –; Equal weights –. Weakest evidenced dimension: governance 1/4. At least one evidenced conflict dimension (funding, governance, personnel, role incompatibility, scope, publication) at 1: usable with conditions the card names.
The weighted numbers are hidden until you ask for them: two readers with different priorities see different numbers, and neither is the site's.
What would move the score. Funding and ownership disclosure; a lab-money policy.
- Funding 3 to 4: score –
- Governance 1 to 2: score –, band becomes no floor triggered
- Access depth 1 to 2: score –
Dissent, lower. Governance (G) at 1 could be 0. The public record offers no case: nothing shows a lab or lab investor holding any stake in EquiStamp, and the company says it is converting to a public benefit corporation. The only lower reading is evidentiary, not substantive: with no funding or ownership disclosure at all, a 20% lab stake cannot be excluded, and the ledger relies on the company's own site.
Dissent, higher. Governance (G) at 1 could be 2. EquiStamp states a public benefit commitment to advance AI safety research over profit and is converting to a PBC, whose charter would bind directors to that purpose; its named clients are evaluators and governments, not labs. Anchor 2 asks for a published conflict policy; a PBC charter with a stated public benefit is the nearest published instrument and the company is not venture-backed on any record.
Each value is the tightest admissible cap or, with no cap, the highest admissible floor, under RULES.md. The binding signal is highlighted. A dash means no admissible signal sets a bound under the Retrieved & confirmed policy.
- Revenue from evaluators and governments; leads EU Lot 3 (EUR 1.17M to consortium) and Lot 4 (EUR 0.88M). floors at 3 by F.10“organisations that won contracts: EquiStamp, METR, Epoch AI, FAR.AI, SaferAI, SecureBio”
TED 864574-2025 Technical Assistance for AI Safety (Tenders Electronic Daily, 2025-12) tier 1 filingconfirmed evaluators.csv (24 evaluators: Coefficient and SFF totals, lab money, government contracts, leadership) (Kevin Bass (GitHub), 2026-09-14) tier 2 ledgerimported FAR.AI Selected to Lead EU AI Act CBRN Risk Consortium (FAR.AI, 2026-02-02) tier 3 self (farai)confirmed Isolating "AI Safety" to an ideological niche will backfire against fundamental rights (Stress Testing Reality (Substack, Katalina Hernández), 2026) tier 4 press (aggregator)confirmed2026-09-14 - Private company; no funding or ownership disclosed. caps at 3 by F.10binding“We're in the process of becoming a Public Benefit Corporation”
evaluators.csv (24 evaluators: Coefficient and SFF totals, lab money, government contracts, leadership) (Kevin Bass (GitHub), 2026-09-14) tier 2 ledgerimported EquiStamp - Research Operations for AI Safety (EquiStamp, 2026) tier 3 self (equistamp)confirmed2026-09-14
- No COI policy on the site. caps at 1 by G.2binding“We provide the full operational stack for AI safety research — from eval implementation to administrative overhead.”
evaluators.csv (24 evaluators: Coefficient and SFF totals, lab money, government contracts, leadership) (Kevin Bass (GitHub), 2026-09-14) tier 2 ledgerimported EquiStamp - Research Operations for AI Safety (EquiStamp, 2026) tier 3 self (equistamp)confirmed2026-09-14
- Founders' prior affiliations and any lab ties not established. caps at 2 by P.6not counted under standard
evaluators.csv (24 evaluators: Coefficient and SFF totals, lab money, government contracts, leadership) (Kevin Bass (GitHub), 2026-09-14) tier 2 ledgerimported2026-09-14
- Access is through client engagements; no pre-release lab access documented. caps at 0 by A.6binding“We build and run evaluations, baselines, and benchmarks”
evaluators.csv (24 evaluators: Coefficient and SFF totals, lab money, government contracts, leadership) (Kevin Bass (GitHub), 2026-09-14) tier 2 ledgerimported EquiStamp - Research Operations for AI Safety (EquiStamp, 2026) tier 3 self (equistamp)confirmed2026-09-14
- Regulator as client sets scope by tender. floors at 2 by S.3; section 9binding“technical assistance aimed at supporting the monitoring of compliance”
TED 864574-2025 Technical Assistance for AI Safety (Tenders Electronic Daily, 2025-12) tier 1 filingconfirmed Forthcoming call for tenders: Artificial Intelligence Act - Technical Assistance for AI Safety (European Commission (DG CONNECT), 2025-04-28) tier 3 self (euaio)confirmed2026-09-14
- Deliverables go to the AI Office; no public reports found. caps at 2 by R.4binding
TED 864574-2025 Technical Assistance for AI Safety (Tenders Electronic Daily, 2025-12) tier 1 filingconfirmed2026-09-14
- Methods not public. caps at 2 by M.2not counted under standard
evaluators.csv (24 evaluators: Coefficient and SFF totals, lab money, government contracts, leadership) (Kevin Bass (GitHub), 2026-09-14) tier 2 ledgerimported2026-09-14
- No lab-facing products found; clients are evaluators and governments. floors at 3 by X.4binding“EquiStamp provides evaluation implementation, data annotation, and project operations for AI safety labs”
evaluators.csv (24 evaluators: Coefficient and SFF totals, lab money, government contracts, leadership) (Kevin Bass (GitHub), 2026-09-14) tier 2 ledgerimported EquiStamp - Research Operations for AI Safety (EquiStamp, 2026) tier 3 self (equistamp)confirmed2026-09-14
Values under each evidence policy
| Dimension | Leads included | Retrieved & confirmed | Against interest | Verified spans | Primary only |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Funding | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Governance | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Personnel | 2 | – | – | – | – |
| Access depth (lab-granted) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Scope control | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Publication rights | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | – |
| Method transparency | 2 | – | – | – | – |
| Role incompatibility | 3 | 3 | – | 3 | – |
| Score, Lab procurement | – Conditional floor, 8/8 | – Conditional floor, 6/8 | – Conditional floor, 5/8 | – Conditional floor, 5/8 | – No floor triggered, 2/8 |
| Score, Regulator or auditor | – Conditional floor, 8/8 | – Conditional floor, 6/8 | – Conditional floor, 5/8 | – Conditional floor, 5/8 | – No floor triggered, 2/8 |
| Score, Public trust | – Conditional floor, 8/8 | – Conditional floor, 6/8 | – Conditional floor, 5/8 | – Conditional floor, 5/8 | – No floor triggered, 2/8 |
| Score, Equal weights | – Conditional floor, 8/8 | – Conditional floor, 6/8 | – Conditional floor, 5/8 | – Conditional floor, 5/8 | – No floor triggered, 2/8 |
Traced money and ties
public: 1 row. Confirmed rows: 1 of 1 Dollar sums: confirmed + unaudited USD rows only; imported figures are not re-derived and never summed. Second hop traced for 1 of 1 sources. Ties: none within two steps recorded. Checked and not found: 1.
Ledger
Money in
- T60 from EU budget (Digital Europe Programme): contract €1.17M (EUR, not converted), 2025-12-04. EU AI Office Lot 3 (loss of control): consortium lot total EUR 1,167,484 led by EquiStamp with METR and Epoch; EquiStamp's share not published confirmedtier 1 filinghttps://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/864574-2025
Checked and not found
- N14 Does Coefficient Giving fund EquiStamp?
Searched Coefficient grants index, 2,911 rows, snapshot 2026-09-11: no grant from Coefficient Giving in its index. Prompted by imported lead: kevinnbass ledger row EV04. importedhttps://coefficientgiving.org/grants/
One hop away
Funding graph, focused
Every one-way chain to a lab and to an evaluator at full strength, everything else faded. Hover any name to trace its connections; click a name to open its page.