Empowering distributed decision authority with AI while ensuring institutional data integrity.
Website • Main Repository • Contact
In higher education, research institutes, and federated organizations, central IT and individual departments are constantly in tension. Central IT needs data integrity, FERPA/HIPAA compliance, and audit trails; departments need the agility to build their own tools without waiting years for central ERP changes.
Scaffoldry is an open, sovereign platform that lets non-technical domain experts build custom business workflows with AI, backed by a cryptographic decision ledger and machine-readable governance.
- Front-of-House: TanStack (React + Table + Query + Form)
- Authorization & Policy: Cedar Policy Engine
- In-Memory Calculation: Apache Arrow & DataFusion
- Durable Store: PostgreSQL
- Decision & Audit Ledger: Embedded Git
- Compliance Standard: NIST OSCAL
- Sovereignty First: Built entirely on foundation-governed open source with zero proprietary cloud lock-in. Runs on infrastructure the institution controls.
- Data Has a Format: Structured data gets a structured format and a published schema before anything reads it.
- The Reader is an Engineer: Enterprise credibility and rigorous threat modeling are requirements of the product, not courtesies paid later.
- Write for People: Clear, accessible, scan-friendly documentation and intuitive end-user interfaces.
Main repository: scaffoldry-io/scaffoldry