# Dartmouth Advisory Partners

> Dartmouth Advisory Partners (DAP): Your organization’s foundations, compiled. An institutional governance-technology firm. We compile what an organization has written about how it must operate into systems that run that way, and record the evidence that they did. Clients are asset owners, asset managers, OCIOs, pensions, insurers and family offices.

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## Overview

- [Home](https://dap.solutions/): An institutional governance-technology firm. We compile what an organization has written into systems that run that way, and record the evidence that they did.

## Solutions

- [Solutions](https://dap.solutions/solutions/): Fit and freedom. A standard method that reaches a truly custom result: software formed around your business, deployed into any shop, fast.
- [Start here: the AI setup guides](https://dap.solutions/solutions/resources/start-here/): How to use the DAP AI setup guides: what to paste, where, and when.
- [ChatGPT setup guide](https://dap.solutions/solutions/resources/chatgpt/): Set up OpenAI's assistant so it works the way your organization works.
- [Gemini setup guide](https://dap.solutions/solutions/resources/gemini/): Set up Google's assistant so it works the way your organization works.
- [Claude setup guide](https://dap.solutions/solutions/resources/claude/): Set up Anthropic's assistant so it works the way your organization works.
- [Microsoft Copilot setup guide](https://dap.solutions/solutions/resources/microsoft-copilot/): Set up Microsoft's assistant inside the tools your firm already runs on.
- [Perplexity setup guide](https://dap.solutions/solutions/resources/perplexity/): Set up the research assistant that answers with citations.
- [Grok setup guide](https://dap.solutions/solutions/resources/grok/): Set up xAI's assistant, and the X settings that feed it.
- [Meta AI setup guide](https://dap.solutions/solutions/resources/meta-ai/): Use Meta's assistant for personal tasks, with the privacy settings that matter.
- [DeepSeek setup guide](https://dap.solutions/solutions/resources/deepseek/): What to check before you use it, and how to run it safely instead.
- [Sovereign intelligence, explained](https://dap.solutions/solutions/resources/sovereign-intelligence-explained/): Open-weight models: what they are, why institutions run their own, and how to tune one safely. With a note on sh4pe, DAP's local model studio.

## Services

- [Services](https://dap.solutions/services/): Govern first, then automate. Readiness assessment, embedded engineering, policy compilation, compliance review and advisory, delivered with one method.
- [Our method](https://dap.solutions/how-it-works/): Living Policy Architecture: written policy compiled into versioned, testable rules that govern what may happen and produce the evidence that it did.

## Data

- [Data](https://dap.solutions/data/): Our sensor and compiler, working on public sources: the Ledger and its Index, the DAP Standard, Bellwether and the Compute Market Tracker.
- [For AI agents](https://dap.solutions/agents/): Every DAP tool an AI agent can call, by job, with its price: settlement dates, text tools, regulatory change and compute prices, over MCP or HTTPS, paid per call or under one licence.
- [The Ledger](https://dap.solutions/ledger/): The Ledger reads what institutional software vendors publish, compiles each capability into a cited record and tests whether it can be rebuilt from public material alone. Follow the climb.
- [Ledger methodology](https://dap.solutions/ledger/method/): The Ledger’s methodology: what it reads, how a capability gets in, how a rebuild is tested, the golden rule and what we never do.
- [Ledger model](https://dap.solutions/ledger/model/): An illustrative, anonymized view of how the Ledger traces a claim from public material to the snapshot. Filter it, turn it and follow any record.
- [Compute Market Tracker](https://dap.solutions/compute/): GPU rental list prices from the cloud providers' own feeds, every compute derivative listed, filed or announced, the indices they settle against, and what regulators have done, each fact linked to its source.
- [Compute Market Console](https://dap.solutions/compute/explore/): Filter every contract, index, participant and event in the Compute Market Tracker, and chart them by venue, status, settlement, risk tag and time.
- [Compute Market Tracker method](https://dap.solutions/compute/method/): How the Compute Market Tracker collects, checks, classifies and publishes facts about traded compute.

## Systems and tools

- [Systems & tools](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/): Explore DAP’s systems, tools, research frameworks and delivery methods. Browse by capability and inspect how the work connects.
- [Overture](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/overture/): A governed platform for institutional data analytics and investment decision support.
- [Resolve Exchange](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/resolve-exchange/): A governed venue for connecting institutional problems with people and agents equipped to work on them.
- [sh4pe](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/sh4pe/): sh4pe trains, tests and serves private AI models on hardware your institution controls. See the real app and the measured result.
- [Falcon](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/falcon/): A reporting architecture that connects contract data, calculations and reporting outputs to a common, inspectable basis.
- [DAP Standard](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/dap-standard/): The DAP Standard 2026.2: a six-layer classification standard for institutional portfolios, from securities to model weights and traded compute.
- [Living Policy Architecture · Framework](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/living-policy-architecture/): The framework connecting policy sources, validated rules, bounded actions and decision evidence.
- [Decision Provenance](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/decision-provenance/): A decision-record schema and implementation linking an action to the inputs, policy and outcome that explain it.
- [AA-1 Agent Governance Attestation](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/aa-1/): A disclosure layer for describing the governance of AI agents in a consistent, inspectable form.
- [Lattice](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/lattice/): An ACTUS-based contract engine in which one contract definition supports consistent events, calculations and reporting views.
- [Bellwether](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/bellwether/): A regulatory change feed that monitors financial regulators in Canada, the US, the UK and the EU, and records what they publish.
- [DAP Agent Payments](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/agent-payments/): Payment software that sits in front of an API. AI agents pay for each answer in USDC over x402, the open web standard for paying over HTTP, and no answer leaves before the payment settles.
- [Antechamber](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/antechamber/): A pre-production qualification approach for evaluating an agent against its intended policy boundaries and operating task.
- [Downforce](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/downforce/): A discovery loop connecting problem identification, governed execution and the network that brings a problem to the right solver.
- [Gate Zero](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/gate-zero/): A delivery approach that establishes the problem, decision boundaries and acceptance basis before implementation expands.
- [Software Factory](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/software-factory/): A development architecture connecting policy intent, system specification and the evidence used to assess a delivered application.

## Research

- [Research](https://dap.solutions/papers/): Published, cited, open to scrutiny. Our methods are public by design. Clients keep their edge in how they apply them, never in a black box we hold.
- [Living Policy Architecture](https://dap.solutions/papers/living-policy-architecture/): A framework for turning written policy into governed, executable logic: how rules become checks, where judgment remains, and how decisions stay traceable.
- [Discovery is the bottleneck](https://dap.solutions/papers/discovery-is-the-bottleneck/): Why the scarce skill in applied AI is knowing which questions are worth asking, and how an institution can own its expert reasoning and decision records.
- [Govern first, then automate.](https://dap.solutions/papers/dap-overview/): The DAP approach in one page: assess the opportunity, govern the boundaries, build and run the workflow, and transfer the resulting capability to the institution.
- [From Frameworks to Filings](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6935198): The case for a standard disclosure layer in AI agent governance. SSRN, July 2026.
- [Living Policy Architecture](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7108198): The case for executable, traceable policy in continuously operating AI systems. SSRN, July 2026.
- [Policy-coupled Decision Attestation](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7108538): Proving an institutional AI decision followed the rule that governed it. SSRN, July 2026.
- [The DAP Standard 2026.2](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7377958): A six-layer classification standard for institutional portfolios. SSRN, September 2026.

## About and contact

- [About](https://dap.solutions/about/): Dartmouth Advisory Partners, founded January 2025 in Toronto, Canada. Results as a service. Founder and Managing Partner: Brendan Sibeth.
- [Contact](https://dap.solutions/contact/): Discover a higher standard. You buy the outcome. We compile the system that delivers it, and the evidence that it did.
- [Privacy](https://dap.solutions/privacy/): The existing DAP website privacy notice: email, hosting logs and cookieless Cloudflare Web Analytics.
- [Terms](https://dap.solutions/terms/): The existing Dartmouth Advisory Partners website terms, effective 6 October 2026.
- [API terms](https://dap.solutions/terms/api/)
- [What's new](https://dap.solutions/whats-new/): What Dartmouth Advisory Partners has shipped, newest first. Each entry is dated, links to the working thing, and goes live only when a person approves it.
- [GPU rental prices for AI agents](https://dap.solutions/whats-new/gpu-rental-prices-for-ai-agents/): Agents can now ask the Compute Market Tracker what a GPU-hour costs, by chip, provider and region, and where it is cheapest. Each answer names its source and when it was read.
- [One Prompt](https://dap.solutions/one-prompt/): Say what you want made. One Prompt writes the prompt and a step-by-step plan for the AI you choose, using the best free tools.

## FAQ

- [FAQ](https://dap.solutions/faq/): Plain answers to the questions institutions ask Dartmouth Advisory Partners about executable policy, review, evidence and ownership.

## For AI agents

Every DAP tool an AI agent can call, by job, with its price, on one page: https://dap.solutions/agents/

### Settlement and dates (DAP Foundry)

Settlement dates on the Payments Canada calendar, accrual fractions and Unix timestamps. A Foundry tool that cannot answer refuses rather than guesses.
- MCP server: https://foundry.dap.solutions/mcp
- MCP Registry: solutions.dap/foundry
- [Rules and prices](https://foundry.dap.solutions/hub.md)
- [Foundry for agents](https://foundry.dap.solutions/llms.txt)
- `compute-day-count-to-settlement`: MCP tool, or POST or GET https://foundry.dap.solutions/api/compute-day-count-to-settlement. The settlement date on the Payments Canada calendar, and the accrual fraction under ACT/360, ACT/365F, 30/360, 30E/360 or ACT/ACT-ISDA. $0.01 per computed answer. A refusal is not charged.
- `convert-unix-timestamp-to-date`: MCP tool, or POST or GET https://foundry.dap.solutions/api/convert-unix-timestamp-to-date. Unix timestamps, in seconds or milliseconds and one per line, as UTC dates in ISO 8601, returned as CSV. $0.01 per computed answer. A refusal is not charged.

### Text utilities (DAP Foundry)

Two small text tools on the same Foundry MCP server and the same address pattern.
- MCP server: https://foundry.dap.solutions/mcp
- [Rules and prices](https://foundry.dap.solutions/hub.md)
- `decode-base64-to-text`: MCP tool, or POST or GET https://foundry.dap.solutions/api/decode-base64-to-text. Standard base64 decoded to UTF-8 text. It refuses rather than guesses. $0.01 per computed answer. A refusal is not charged.
- `diff-two-line-lists`: MCP tool, or POST or GET https://foundry.dap.solutions/api/diff-two-line-lists. Each distinct line of two lists, marked only_a, only_b or both, returned as CSV. $0.01 per computed answer. A refusal is not charged.

### Regulatory change (DAP Bellwether)

Financial regulators in Canada, the US, the UK and the EU, covered from when each source was first collected.
- MCP server: https://bellwether.dap.solutions/mcp
- MCP Registry: solutions.dap/bellwether
- [OpenAPI](https://bellwether.dap.solutions/openapi.json)
- [Website](https://bellwether.dap.solutions/)
- `search_regulatory_changes` (MCP tool): Search the regulatory changes Bellwether has recorded. Free for 50 calls per caller each UTC day, then $0.01 per call.
- `recent_regulatory_changes` (MCP tool): The most recent changes Bellwether has recorded. Free for 50 calls per caller each UTC day, then $0.01 per call.
- `get_regulatory_change` (MCP tool): One recorded change in full. Free for 50 calls per caller each UTC day, then $0.01 per call.
- `list_coverage` (MCP tool): Which regulators and sources are covered, and from when. Check it before concluding that something was not published. Free.
- `GET https://bellwether.dap.solutions/api/search`: Search the recorded regulatory changes, as JSON. $0.01 per call, from the first call.
- `GET https://bellwether.dap.solutions/api/recent`: The most recent recorded changes, as JSON. $0.01 per call, from the first call.
- `GET https://bellwether.dap.solutions/api/change?id=`: One recorded change in full, with its revision history. $0.01 per call, from the first call.
- `GET https://bellwether.dap.solutions/api/coverage`: What is covered, and from when. Free.

### Compute prices and contracts (DAP Compute Market Tracker)

GPU rental list prices from AWS and Azure, compute derivative contracts and regulator actions, each with its source. Index values are never returned.
- MCP server: https://dap.solutions/compute/mcp
- MCP Registry: solutions.dap/compute
- [OpenAPI](https://dap.solutions/compute/api/openapi.json)
- [Website](https://dap.solutions/compute/)
- `get-gpu-price` (MCP tool): One chip, provider, region and price type: the price per GPU-hour now, its last change, the source URL and when it was read. Free for 50 calls per caller each UTC day, then $0.01 per call.
- `find-cheapest-gpu-hour` (MCP tool): The cheapest current list price per GPU-hour for one chip across providers, optionally in one region. Free for 50 calls per caller each UTC day, then $0.01 per call.
- `list-price-changes` (MCP tool): Price changes since a date for a chip or a provider, at most 100 rows. Free for 50 calls per caller each UTC day, then $0.01 per call.
- `get-compute-contract` (MCP tool): One compute derivative contract with its index and venue. Free for 50 calls per caller each UTC day, then $0.01 per call.
- `list-regulator-actions` (MCP tool): Regulator actions on traded compute since a date, with their due dates. Free for 50 calls per caller each UTC day, then $0.01 per call.
- `search_compute_contracts` (MCP tool): Contracts by venue, status, index publisher, jurisdiction, settlement or name. Free for 50 calls per caller each UTC day, then $0.01 per call.
- `get_compute_record` (MCP tool): One contract, index series, participant or event in full, with its classification, history and sources. Free for 50 calls per caller each UTC day, then $0.01 per call.
- `compute_market_events` (MCP tool): Announcements, filings and regulator actions, with the dates still to come. Free for 50 calls per caller each UTC day, then $0.01 per call.
- `compute_list_prices` (MCP tool): Every GPU rental list price line from AWS and Azure: per instance-hour as listed, per GPU-hour derived, with every change. Free for 50 calls per caller each UTC day, then $0.01 per call.
- `compute_query` (MCP tool): The console's query object, answered: lines, headline numbers, league table, chart series, contracts, events and sources. Free for 50 calls per caller each UTC day, then $0.01 per call.
- `list_compute_coverage` (MCP tool): The snapshot date, counts, every source and when it was checked. Free.
- `GET https://dap.solutions/compute/api/gpu-price?chip=&provider=&region=&price_type=`: The same answer as get-gpu-price, as JSON. $0.01 per call, from the first call.
- `GET https://dap.solutions/compute/api/cheapest-gpu-hour?chip=&region=&price_type=`: The same answer as find-cheapest-gpu-hour, as JSON. $0.01 per call, from the first call.
- `GET https://dap.solutions/compute/api/price-changes?since=&chip=&provider=&limit=`: The same answer as list-price-changes, as JSON. $0.01 per call, from the first call.
- `GET https://dap.solutions/compute/api/contract?contract=`: The same answer as get-compute-contract, as JSON. $0.01 per call, from the first call.
- `GET https://dap.solutions/compute/api/regulator-actions?since=&regulator=&limit=`: The same answer as list-regulator-actions, as JSON. $0.01 per call, from the first call.
- `GET https://dap.solutions/compute/api/contracts`: The same answer as search_compute_contracts, as JSON. $0.01 per call, from the first call.
- `GET https://dap.solutions/compute/api/events`: The same answer as compute_market_events, as JSON. $0.01 per call, from the first call.
- `GET https://dap.solutions/compute/api/prices`: The same answer as compute_list_prices, as JSON. $0.01 per call, from the first call.
- `GET https://dap.solutions/compute/api/record?id=`: The same answer as get_compute_record, as JSON. $0.01 per call, from the first call.
- `GET https://dap.solutions/compute/api/query`: The same answer as compute_query, as JSON. $0.01 per call, from the first call.
- `GET https://dap.solutions/compute/api/coverage`: The same answer as list_compute_coverage, as JSON. Free.
- JSON API: A lookup that matches nothing answers 404 and is not charged.
- `GET https://dap.solutions/compute/holdings/`: The whole holdings tree and its lines. $0.25 per call.
- `GET or POST https://dap.solutions/compute/query/`: The console's query, answered. $0.01 per call.
- The console's own data: People use both at no charge through the console page.

### Paying and licences

- How to pay: Call the tool or endpoint as usual. There is no account and no key. A priced call answers 402 Payment Required, with the price in its PAYMENT-REQUIRED header. Call again with a signed payment for that price. The answer is released after the payment settles. x402 version 2, exact scheme, USDC on Base, through DAP Agent Payments.
- A call that fails, or that a tool refuses, is not charged.
- Paying makes the paying wallet, the amount and the time public on Base, and the payment facilitator sees them. Your inputs are not sent to it.
- [DAP Agent Payments](https://dap.solutions/solutions/systems/agent-payments/): How DAP puts paid, governed agent access in front of an API.
- Licence for institutions: one DAP licence key (dapk_...), sent as Authorization: Bearer <key> on the Bellwether MCP server and API and the Compute Market Tracker MCP server and API. Usage is counted per licence and billed by invoice; nothing settles on a blockchain. Ask at info@dap.solutions.
- [DAP API terms](https://dap.solutions/terms/api/): Calling a tool, sending a payment or using a licence key accepts them.
- [Catalogue of DAP agent services](https://dap.solutions/.well-known/api-catalog): Every DAP API and MCP server above, as an RFC 9727 API catalogue (Linkset JSON).

## Optional

- [The DAP Standard 2026.2, Markdown source](https://dap.solutions/standard/dap-standard-2026.2.md): Six-layer classification standard for institutional portfolios. Canonical URL https://dap.solutions/standard.
- [DAP Standard taxonomy, JSON](https://dap.solutions/standard/dap-standard-2026.2-taxonomy.json): Machine-readable taxonomy for the standard.
- [Full site text](https://dap.solutions/llms-full.txt): Every page above as plain text.