Press fact sheet Updated June 2026
Summit Cognitive — fact sheet
Accountable, defensible AI for high-stakes decisions.
Summit Cognitive builds the runtime admissibility layer for AI in consequential decisions. Every governed action ships a Decision Receipt: a cryptographically signed, replayable, independently verifiable record of why an answer was allowed, revised, blocked, or escalated. The product is live in production, with a public key and ledger anyone can use to verify a receipt for themselves.
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Company at a glance
Legal name
Summit Cognitive, Inc.
Structure
Delaware C-Corporation
Founder
Brian C. Long — Founder & CEOSole founder by design at this stage. Background across cyber, media, and intelligence work. Author of the forthcoming Admissible Reality. Distinct from the founder of Attentive / Adaptive Security.
Headquarters
Alma, Colorado (Park County)Delaware C-Corporation; founded April 2026.
Category
Decision admissibility — the runtime layer that makes AI-assisted decisions accountable and defensible.
What Summit does
A log shows what happened. A Decision Receipt proves that a decision was authorized — and that it holds up under audit later.
Most organizations can tell you whether an AI system produced an output. Almost none can prove the output was decision-valid — authorized, evidence-linked, and policy-compliant — captured at the moment the decision was made. Summit closes that gap. The product turns an AI-assisted decision into a governed artifact, the Decision Receipt, that shows why the answer was allowed, revised, blocked, or escalated. Summit does not replace the analysis; it makes the analysis admissible.
The work sits at the knowledge-graph layer, not the model layer — a runtime control plane underneath AI governance, model safety, data security, and audit. It is built, deployed, and in active pilot motion: not a model wrapper, not a UI overlay, not a research project.
SIGNED
Every governed action is recorded
Each Decision Receipt is cryptographically signed with Ed25519, under a deny-by-default policy enforced before the output leaves the system.
REPLAYABLE
Run the decision again
A receipt can be replayed against what was actually known at decision time — deterministically — instead of narrated after the fact.
VERIFIABLE
Anyone can check it
A public key and ledger let an outside party verify a receipt independently, offline, without trusting Summit.
DEFENSIBLE
Built to hold up to audit
Provenance, authority, and policy are bound into the record so a decision can be reconstructed, reviewed, and contested.
Canonical metrics
Live, in production, and independently verifiable. Figures are audit-time; some have since advanced.
3,000+
Signed Decision Receipts issued in production
Stated conservatively · public ledger
98.6%
Receipt acceptance rate (deny by default)
Audit-time figure
99.9%
Replay determinism
Audit-time figure
9
Governed agents under the policy engine
Audit-time figure
Ed25519
Cryptographic signatures, public-key verification
Deny-by-default policy
52 + 5
Canonical packages and five integrated services
Codebase scope
The product is live at decrec.summitcognitive.ai with a public key and ledger for independent verification. Engineering metrics above are audit-time figures (late May to early June 2026); some have since advanced. Detailed compliance and pipeline figures are available on request and are not published here.
Federal credentialing
Federal credentialing is complete and active. The company holds a Unique Entity ID (UEI), is registered on SAM.gov, and has an assigned CAGE code — the baseline credentials required to contract with U.S. federal agencies.
UEI
AssignedUnique Entity ID.
Patent posture
Summit's intellectual property is anchored by a provisional patent application covering its decision-admissibility approach. The patent is pending, not granted.
Provisional
No. 64/034,952
Non-provisional due
April 10, 2027
Status
Pending, not grantedContinuation and international PCT strategy planned. Implementation detail is held under NDA.
Category & content program
Summit is defining the vocabulary of decision admissibility in public — a book, an essay series, and a podcast, all under one argument.
BOOK
Admissible Reality
The long-form argument by Brian C. Long: why a decision is legitimate not because it was authorized, but because it can be reconstructed, reviewed, and contested. book.summitcognitive.ai — forthcoming.
SPEAKING
Web Summit, Lisbon (Nov 9–12, 2026)
A speaking slot is in flight / being secured — not yet confirmed. Confirmation status: [[ TK — confirm with Brian ]]
Boilerplate
For press use · About Summit Cognitive
Summit Cognitive, Inc. is a Delaware C-Corporation founded in April 2026. It builds the runtime admissibility layer for AI in high-stakes decisions: every governed action ships a Decision Receipt — a cryptographically signed, replayable, independently verifiable record of why a decision was allowed, revised, blocked, or escalated. The product is live in production at decrec.summitcognitive.ai, with a public key and ledger for independent verification. Summit was founded by Brian C. Long, author of the forthcoming Admissible Reality. Learn more at summitcognitive.ai.
Founder quote. “A decision you cannot reconstruct is a decision you cannot defend. We built Summit so that when an AI-assisted decision is questioned, there is a signed record anyone can replay and check — not a story told after the fact.” — Brian C. Long, Founder & CEO, Summit Cognitive.
A note on figures. Engineering metrics on this page are audit-time figures (late May to early June 2026) and some have since advanced. The provisional patent is pending, not granted. Items marked [[ TK ]] are placeholders pending confirmation and should not be published as fact.