Project summary
EM Foundation for AI Research is a Texas 501(c)(3) (EIN 42-3000086) doing independent, adversarial research on AI accountability, checking one AI system's reasoning against another's instead of a lab checking its own. Since incorporating in May 2026, working solo and founder-funded, I've built a working multi-model deliberation platform, published several adversarially reviewed Research Notes, and completed a Working Paper that passed a seven-role hostile review. I'm seeking funding to move this from part-time and founder-funded to durable.

What are this project's goals? How will you achieve them?
Goal: make independent, cross-model AI accountability research sustainable past a single founder working part-time. Path: reliable always-on hosting for the deliberation engine and research tools, funded compute time on the quantum backends already integrated (IBM Quantum, AWS Braket), and bringing in outside reviewers to scale the adversarial-review process that gives the published work its credibility.

How will this funding be used?
[Fill in your real numbers here, this is the section that needs your actual figures, not mine. Rough categories to cost out: hosting/infra migration, quantum compute time, reviewer/collaborator capacity. State a total ask and how it splits.]

Who is on your team? What's your track record on similar projects?
Solo founder currently: Desmond Iwuagwu, President. Track record: multiple published Research Notes that went through structured adversarial review, including one AI system independently reviewing deliberation research produced by others; a completed Working Paper that survived seven-role hostile review with every major criticism addressed; three provisional patents filed pro se with honest self-assessed patentability; working infrastructure already live and integrated with real backends, not a proposal-stage idea.

What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails?
Most likely failure mode isn't the research being wrong, it's scale: staying a part-time, one-person effort indefinitely because infrastructure and compute costs outpace what a small grant covers, or the published research not finding an audience/reviewer base beyond me. Funding this reduces the first risk directly; the second is a real, ongoing risk regardless of funding.

How much money have you raised in the last 12 months, and from where?
$0 external, fully founder-funded to date.