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The runtime admissibility layer for AI in high-stakes decisions.
Summit Cognitive builds the proof layer for machine-made decisions. Every governed action ships a Decision Receipt — a cryptographically signed, replayable, independently verifiable record of why an output was allowed, revised, blocked, or escalated. This page is for journalists, editors, and analysts: a short company description, the story in brief, the key facts at a glance, a media contact, and a media kit you can quote from directly.
Founded by Brian C. Long · Summit Cognitive, Inc. · Delaware C-Corp
The story in brief
A log shows what happened. A Decision Receipt proves who authorized a decision — and that it holds up under audit later.
The first wave of AI adoption optimized for productivity. The next wave is judged by decision accountability. 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 Cognitive closes that gap.
The company operates at the knowledge-graph layer rather than the model layer — a control plane it calls Cognitive Security: the runtime admissibility layer that AI governance, model safety, data security, and audit all need underneath them. Explanation is not proof. Observability tells you what happened; audit logs tell you who did it. A Decision Receipt tells you why the system reached this conclusion, with this evidence, under this policy — captured at decision time and signed before the output leaves the system.
This is built, deployed, and in active pilot motion — not a model wrapper, not a UI overlay, not a research project. The product is live in production at decrec.summitcognitive.ai, with a public key and ledger for independent verification. The argument behind it runs across two flagship channels: the forthcoming book Admissible Reality, the Dispatches essay series, and the Warrant podcast.
Key facts at a glance
Public-level figures. Independently verifiable where noted.
3,000+
Signed Decision Receipts issued in production
Public ledger · stated conservatively
98.6%
Receipt acceptance rate (deny by default)
Capability statement
99.9%
Replay determinism
Capability statement
9
Governed agents in production
Decision Receipt deployment
Ed25519
Signatures, public-key verification
OPA-gated, deny by default
52 + 5
Canonical packages and integrated services
Built and maintained by one person
Legal entity
Summit Cognitive, Inc. — a Delaware C-Corporation, founded April 2026.
What it is
The runtime admissibility layer for AI in high-stakes decisions. The product is the Decision Receipt — a signed, replayable, independently verifiable record of a governed decision.
Patent
U.S. provisional patent application No. 64/034,952, filed April 10, 2026; non-provisional conversion due April 10, 2027. Pending, not granted.
Federal posture
Federal credentialing complete: UEI assigned, SAM.gov registered, CAGE code assigned.
Founder
Brian C. Long — sole founder and CEO. (Distinct from the founder of Attentive / Adaptive Security.)
Headquarters
Alma, Colorado (Park County). [[ TK — confirm with Brian ]] if a mailing/press address is needed.
Channels
Admissible Reality (book), Dispatches (essays), Warrant (podcast).
Speaking
A speaking slot at Web Summit, Lisbon (Nov 9–12, 2026) is in flight / being secured — not yet confirmed.
Engineering metrics are audit-time figures (late May to early June 2026); some have since advanced. Figures shown here are public-level only — confidential financials, valuation, and pipeline detail are not published. The patent is pending, not granted; compliance frameworks are designed-for-alignment, not yet certified.
Boilerplate & founder bio
Company boilerplate · short
Summit Cognitive builds the runtime admissibility layer for AI in high-stakes decisions. Its product, the Decision Receipt, turns a machine-made decision into a cryptographically signed, replayable, independently verifiable record of why an output 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 Cognitive, Inc. is a Delaware C-Corporation founded in 2026.
Company boilerplate · long
Summit Cognitive builds the proof layer for machine-made decisions — a new control plane the company calls Cognitive Security. As AI moves from productivity tool to decision-maker, organizations can tell you whether a system produced an output, but rarely prove the output was decision-valid: authorized, evidence-linked, and policy-compliant, captured at the moment the decision was made.
Summit closes that gap. Every governed action ships a Decision Receipt — a cryptographically signed (Ed25519), replayable, independently verifiable record of why an answer was allowed, revised, blocked, or escalated. The company operates at the knowledge-graph layer rather than the model layer, positioning itself as the runtime admissibility layer beneath AI governance, model safety, data security, and audit.
The product is live in production at decrec.summitcognitive.ai, with a public key and ledger anyone can use to verify a receipt offline. Summit Cognitive, Inc. is a Delaware C-Corporation founded in April 2026. The company's category argument runs across the book Admissible Reality, the Dispatches essay series, and the Warrant podcast. Contact: hello@summitcognitive.ai.
Founder bio · Brian C. Long
Brian C. Long is the founder and CEO of Summit Cognitive. He brings more than two decades of cyber, media, and intelligence work on institutional decision systems and cognitive infrastructure. He is the sole founder of Summit Cognitive by design at this stage — the codebase, the Decision Receipt architecture, and the trust portal were built and are maintained by one person. He is the author of the forthcoming Admissible Reality. He is distinct from the founder of Attentive / Adaptive Security.
A line you can quote
"A log shows what happened. A Decision Receipt proves who authorized a decision — and that it holds up under audit later. If a decision cannot be replayed, it should not be trusted."
— Brian C. Long, founder & CEO, Summit Cognitive
Notes to editors
For accuracy
The product name "Decision Receipt" is correct as written. The company name is Summit Cognitive, Inc. (Delaware C-Corp). The founder is Brian C. Long — distinct from the founder of Attentive / Adaptive Security.
Engineering metrics on this page are audit-time figures (late May to early June 2026); some have since advanced. Public-level figures only are published here.
The provisional patent (No. 64/034,952) is pending, not granted. Compliance frameworks are designed-for-alignment, not yet certified. A Web Summit Lisbon speaking slot is being secured, not confirmed. The Decision Receipt product is independently verifiable: a public key and ledger are published at decrec.summitcognitive.ai so any claim of receipt issuance can be checked directly.
Summit Cognitive, Inc. is a Delaware C-Corporation headquartered in Alma, Colorado (Park County), founded April 2026. Contact: hello@summitcognitive.ai.