ValiFit Constitutional Charter

Source Sovereignty

The principle

Every score, ranking, and number on ValiFit traces to a federal or authoritative open-data source we can cite by URL.

The commitment

ValiFit does not invent data. We do not estimate where the federal record exists. We do not interpolate where the cohort is too small for k-anonymity (k≥25). When a fact is shown to a user — a graduation rate, a flood zone, a per-pupil spending number — that fact is sourced to a federal agency (NCES, FBI, FEMA, HUD, HRSA, BLS, BEA, FHFA, EPA, USDA, FCC), an authoritative open-data publisher (Overture Maps, OpenStreetMap, Census Bureau), or a state regulator with statutory mandate. We document every source in lib/seo/source-citation.ts and the data_lineage database table; the same source citation is rendered to the user (visible) AND embedded in the page's Schema.org JSON-LD (machine-readable).

Why this matters

Real-estate decisions are six-figure financial decisions. Users acting on bad data lose money or buy into the wrong neighborhood. The industry standard — Zillow's "Zestimate", Redfin's "compete score" — is opaque interpolated modeling presented as authoritative. We refuse that pattern. If we don't have the source, we don't show the number.

How we enforce

lib/seo/source-citation.ts contains the FederalSourceKey enum — every fact in a blurb must cite one. data_lineage table records source, URL, refresh date, confidence per row. CI test verifies every score-emitting code path uses citation.

lib/seo/source-citation.ts Public verification

Aligns with

FHA
ECOA
OMB Circular A-130

Last reviewed and affirmed: 2026-05-08. The charter is versioned with the codebase — a Git history of changes to lib/charters.ts serves as the audit log.

Other charters

FHA-Safe MethodologyNo protected class — race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, disability — is a factor in any score, recommendation, or routing decision.Citation DensityEvery page presents at least one citable federal source per major claim. No "ValiFit says" without "the federal source said."Algorithmic TransparencyEvery scoring formula is public, every weight is documented, every methodology is reproducible from federal data.Public Bias Audit (Stream-Only)Every quarter, ValiFit runs the same statistical bias audit any regulator would run — composite scores correlated against Census ACS protected-class indicators — but we never store the protected-class data. We pull it fresh from the public Census API at audit time, compute correlations in memory, persist only the result matrix, and discard the raw data.Lead-Routing NeutralityNo agent receives better leads, higher fit scores, or preferential placement because they paid more. Routing is determined exclusively by Agent Quality Score (AQS).

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