The trust layer for Open Knowledge Format
OKF standardized the format.
Nobody certifies the discipline.
Anyone can publish an OKF bundle — but nothing tells a reader whether it is identifiable, owned, and kept current under a real review discipline. JidoSeal audits a corpus against the OKF v0.2 open standard plus published ISO governance criteria, and issues a verifiable tier — Bronze, Silver, or Gold.
$0 to run · 100% local · zero content egress — your knowledge base never leaves your machine.
Automated end to end, with one human step: every certificate is approved by a person before it is signed — reviewing the score and the corpus hash, never your files.
The standard leaves it open
OKF scopes itself to the interoperability surface on purpose, leaving metadata validation, staleness and change attestation to producers and consumers. Two conformant bundles can be worlds apart.
Trust is unverifiable
A reader has no way to confirm a claim of conformance — there is no independent, tamper-evident record to point to.
Subjective grades don't verify
Whether knowledge is “good” is a judgement call two reviewers can disagree on. JidoSeal certifies something objective instead: whether every file carries the fields a governed document system requires.
How JidoSeal tiers work
Each bundle is scanned once against a rubric of increasingly rigorous standards. Your tier is the highest one your bundle fully meets — no partial credit, no score band to game.
type. Deliberately permissive — nothing else is a failure.status on every file, plus one governing review-policy document that says who re-reviews the corpus, how often, and by when.Your JidoSeal Score is the number behind the tier. It runs 0–100 and is simply how much of your corpus conforms at that tier — the difference between “not yet Silver” and “you're at 82% Silver, and here are the 40 files in the way.”
Bronze is the certification; Silver and Gold are the climb. Meeting the open standard earns you a badge on day one. From there the Self-Check names every file and field between you and the next tier, and Certified does the work of closing them.
A person approves every certificate. The audit itself is deterministic — the same corpus always earns the same tier, with no model and no judgement call. Issuing is the step we deliberately do not automate: before a certificate is signed, a JidoSeal reviewer approves or rejects the pending certification, looking at exactly three things — the tier claimed, the conformance score behind it, and the cryptographic hash of the corpus. Never your files, never their names, never their contents. None of that ever leaves your machine, so none of it is on the reviewer's screen either.
A JidoSeal badge makes exactly one claim: this organization meets or exceeds the OKF v0.2 open knowledge standard.
Local-first by architecture
Your content never leaves your machine.
A knowledge base is the most sensitive thing an organization owns. Uploading it to a vendor to have it graded is a trust ask we decided not to make — so JidoSeal is built the other way round.
The scan runs in place
The Self-Check is deterministic — it reads your files where they already live and checks which fields are present and populated. No upload, no model call, no cost.
So does the remediation
Corrections are written in place, frontmatter only. Every original is snapshotted first and every change is recorded in a hash-chained audit log, so one command puts it all back. You choose how long snapshots are kept — 30 days by default.
Only a fingerprint is sent
When — and only when — you buy a certificate, JidoSeal transmits a Merkle root of the corpus, the tier, and file counts. Never file contents. Never even file paths.
Pricing
Start with the free Self-Check. Pay only when you want the certificate: a signed, publicly verifiable badge bound to a cryptographic fingerprint of the exact corpus we certified.
JidoSeal Self-Check
Free
Automated audit you can run any time.
- • Your current tier: Bronze, Silver, or Gold
- • Your conformance against each tier, as a percentage
- • Exactly which files miss which field for the next tier
- • Which gaps we can fix and which need your input
- • Runs on your machine — nothing leaves it, no account
JidoSeal Certified
From $149
Everything in Self-Check, plus the corrections and the certificate.
- • Guided corrections to reach your target tier
- • A person approves your certification before it is signed — from the score and hash alone, never your files
- • Signed certificate bound to a Merkle root of your corpus
- • Verifiable, tamper-evident badge with a badge ID
- • Public verification page anyone can check
- • Listing in the public JidoSeal registry
What certification costs
A price has two parts: issuing the certificate, and the remediation needed to reach the tier. If your corpus already meets a tier there is nothing to fix, so you pay for the seal alone — which always costs less. The free Self-Check tells you which case you are in before you pay anything.
Prices scale with the size of the corpus and how many files need correcting, so Gold is quoted as a range; you get a firm number after your Self-Check, before any work begins. Certification is point-in-time — the certificate attests your corpus as of its timestamp, and editing files afterwards does not void it.
See where your knowledge base stands.
The Self-Check is free and takes seconds. No account required.
Try the Self-Check demoThe demo on this site is a hosted preview that scores a few files you paste in. The JidoSeal Self-Check itself runs on your own machine against your own corpus.